* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games is held in London.

In January 2012, Aon announced that headquarters would be moved from Chicago to London.

The company moved its headquarters from Chicago to London in 2012.

They include the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Salt Lake City in 2002, Athens in 2004, Turin in 2006, Beijing in 2008, Vancouver in 2010, and London in 2012.

In April 2012, Marc Jenner from Tunbridge Wells in Kent, ran in the Virgin London Marathon dressed in a Bagpuss costume to raise money for the charity, supported by Emily Firmin and Oliver Postgate's family.

In 2009 – 10, the club won their first " Double " and in 2012 became the first London club to win the UEFA Champions League.

This seven-judge procedure has been modified as of the 2012 London Olympics: rather than eliminating one high and one low award and then reducing the total by as in previous international events, the two highest awards and the two lowest are disregarded, leaving three to be summed and multiplied by the difficulty rating.

The 2012 London Olympics saw the first use of eleven judges.

The score is computed similarly to the scores from other diving events, but has been modified starting with the 2012 London Olympics for the use of the larger judging panels.

They are being used for the London 2012 relay.

In 2012 relations came under strain when Julian Assange, founder of the Wikileaks website, entered the Ecuadorian embassy in London and sought asylum ; Assange had recently lost a legal case against his extradition to Sweden on charges of sexual assault and rape, but when within the embassy he was on diplomatic territory and beyond the reach of the British police.

* Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act, London: Allen Lane, 1975 ; with a new postscript, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977 ; London: Breviary Stuff Publications, 2012.

Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press, 2012.

* Jeremy Naydler, Gardening as a Sacred Art ( London, Floris Books, 2012 ).

In September, 2012, a British Comedy Society blue plaque, to commemorate Chapman, was unveiled at The Angel pub in Highgate, North London, by Jones, Palin, Barry Cryer and Carol Cleveland.

Located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, in West London, Heathrow is the busiest airport in the United Kingdom and the third busiest airport in the world ( as of 2012 ) in terms of total passenger traffic, handling more international passengers than any other airport around the globe.

On 6 July 2005 London won the bid to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics.

Prince Harry being driven through London during the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of 5 June 2012

On 12 August 2012, The Prince represented his grandmother, the Queen, at the Closing Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games.

* 2012 – The Shard in London is inaugurated as the tallest building in Europe, with a height of 310 metres ( 1, 020 ft ).

* 2012 – The opening ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, England, United Kingdom.

File: Berthe Morisot-Sommertag-1879. jpeg | Summer Day National Gallery, London 1879

Summer is hot and humid throughout the state, with average highs in New London of 81 ° F ( 27 ° C ) and 87 ° F ( 31 ° C ) in Windsor Locks.

* Algar, N., " Hopper at Birmingham ," in Sight and Sound ( London ), Summer 1982

1908 Summer Olympics in London: Display of the British women's gymnastics team

* 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad – after a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany, open in London, England, United Kingdom.

In 2011 the United Kingdom's Royal Mint minted a fifty pence coin depicting a swimmer and another for the triathlon, in preparation for the 2012 Summer Olympics, to be held in London.

The sound itself was heard during a segment of the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London as rock band Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was played to the stadium.

The Madison was a Summer Olympic event for men from 2000-2008, but was dropped ahead of the 2012 London Olympics.

The Summer Olympics were resumed in 1948 in London and the Winter games were held that year in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

* April 27 – The 1908 Summer Olympics begin in London.

* July 29 – The 1948 Summer Olympics begin in London, the first since the 1936 Summer Olympics

He performed at the closing ceremony for the London 2012 Summer Olympics.

The London water tower, fire department, and London High School were featured in a Nike commercial promoting the 2012 Summer Olympics.

On 12 August 2012, Queen performed at the closing ceremony of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.

The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in London, England, United Kingdom.

In June 1939, the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ) awarded the 1944 Olympic Summer Games to London, ahead of Rome, Detroit, Budapest, Lausanne, Helsinki, Montreal and Athens.

London, which had previously hosted the 1908 Summer Olympics, became the second city to host the Olympics twice ; Paris hosted the event in 1900 and 1924.

It became the first city to host the Olympics for the third time when London hosted the 2012 Summer Olympics.

Category: Summer Olympics in London

* Colin Hay performed " Down Under " on an advert for Australian telephone company Telstra supporting the London 2012 Olympic Games.

On the 26th July, 2012, she carried the Olympic torch through Westminster, London, for the London Olympics.

However, Dr Brookes did organise a national Olympic Games in London, at Crystal Palace, in 1866 and this was the first Olympics to resemble an Olympic Games to be held outside of Greece.

Dr Brookes had organised a national Olympic Games that was held at Crystal Palace in London in 1866.

Several foreign airlines also serve Rinas Airport: Alitalia ( from Rome and Milan ), British Airways ( from London Gatwick Airport ), Austrian Airlines ( from Vienna ), Adria Airways ( Ljubljana ), Jat Airways ( Belgrade ), Lufthansa ( Munich ), Malev ( Budapest ), Olympic Air ( Athens ), Hemus Air ( Sofia ) and Turkish Airlines ( Istanbul ).

* July 24 – Dorando Pietri wins the Olympic marathon in London in one of the most dramatic arrivals of the Olympic history, only to be disqualified soon afterwards.

* September 29 – Sebastian Coe, British athlete, co-ordinator of the London 2012 Olympic Games

On 12th August 2012 he performed at the 2012 London Olympic Games Closing Ceremony.

In 1948, while the Olympic Games were being held in London, he organized a sports competition for wheelchair athletes at Stoke Mandeville.

She was also the president or patron of numerous organisations, such as the West Indies Olympic Association, the Girl Guides, Northern Ballet Theatre, and the London Lighthouse ( an AIDS charity that has since merged with the Terrence Higgins Trust ).

* Flame Runner, a 3. 9 % abv beer with spices and citrus, to celebrate the 2012 London Olympics and the Olympic Torch Relay through Southwold

When three Japanese fishermen, among them Otokichi, were shipwrecked on the Olympic Peninsula in 1834, McLoughlin, envisioning an opportunity to use them to open trade with Japan, sent the trio to London on the Eagle to try to convince the Crown of his plan.

This was the second occasion that London had hosted the Olympic Games, having previously been the venue in 1908.

: The Games of 1944 had been allocated to London and so it was that in October, 1945, the chairman of the British Olympic Council, Lord Burghley, went to Stockholm and saw the president of the International Olympic Committee to discuss the question of London being chosen for this great event.