In August 1926 Ivo Bligh ( now Lord Darnley ) displayed the Ashes Urn at the Morning Post Decorative Art Exhibition held in the Central Hall, Westminster.

In the first days of January the 110 cavalry standards and the 128 infantry colours that were taken during the battle were borne in procession to Westminster Hall.

CND held an inaugural public meeting at Central Hall, Westminster, on 17 February 1958, attended by five thousand people.

The coronation was followed by a banquet in Westminster Hall.

Category: Burials at Westminster Hall and Burying Ground

* Marriage of the River Thames to the Rhine ( masque performed by Gray's Inn and Inner Temple lawyers on the river and in Westminster Hall in celebration of the marriage of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Frederick, Elector Palatine ) ( 1613 )

By coincidence, on the same day that Garnet was found, the surviving conspirators were arraigned in Westminster Hall.

On 20 March 1966, four months before the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England, the trophy was stolen during a public exhibition at Westminster Central Hall.

The great hall influenced the design of Bolton and Raby castles, while the hall's roof design became famous and was copied at Arundel Castle and Westminster Hall.

One group of Lollards petitioned Parliament with The Twelve Conclusions of the Lollards by posting them on the doors of Westminster Hall in February 1395.

Westminster Central Hall | Methodist Central Hall Westminster, erected to mark the centenary of John Wesley's death.

Ministers are appointed to Circuits rather than to individual churches ( though some large inner-city churches, known as Central Halls, are designated as circuits in themselves – Westminster Central Hall, opposite Westminster Abbey in central London is the best known ).

The three bodies thrown into pit close to the gallows, while the heads were placed, with Bradshaw's in the middle, at the end of Westminster Hall ( the symbolism was lost on no one as that was the building where the trial of Charles I had taken place ).

After that, it served as the home of Parliament, which had been meeting there since the thirteenth century, and the seat of the Royal Courts of Justice, based in and around Westminster Hall.

In 1834, an even greater fire ravaged the heavily rebuilt Houses of Parliament, and the only structures of significance to survive were Westminster Hall, the Cloisters of St Stephen's, the Chapel of St Mary Undercroft and the Jewel Tower.

The oldest existing part of the Palace ( Westminster Hall ) dates from the reign of William I's successor, King William II.

The predecessor of Parliament, the Curia Regis ( Royal Council ), met in Westminster Hall ( although it followed the King when he moved to other palaces ).

St Stephen's Chapel, labelled " H of Comm " ( House of Commons ), is adjacent to Westminster Hall ; the Parliament Chamber — labelled " H of L " ( House of Lords )— and the Prince's Chamber are to the far south.

Westminster Hall was saved thanks to heroic fire-fighting efforts and a change in the direction of the wind.

The call for artists to submit proposals resulted in a first exhibition in 1843 at Westminster Hall in which 140 cartoons were shown.

An incendiary bomb hit the chamber of the House of Commons and set it on fire ; another set the roof of Westminster Hall alight.

* 1923 – The Duke of York weds Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon at Westminster Abbey.

* 1661 – King Charles II of England, Scotland and Ireland is crowned in Westminster Abbey.

* 1100 – Henry I is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.

* 1840 – Foundation stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, is laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.

* 1858 – After the original Big Ben, a 14. 5 tonne bell for the Palace of Westminster had cracked during testing, it is recast into the current 13. 76 tonne bell by Whitechapel Bell Foundry.

* 1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.

* 1065 – Westminster Abbey is consecrated.

* 1931 – The British Parliament enacts the Statute of Westminster 1931, establishing legislative equality between the self-governing dominions of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Dominion of Canada, the Irish Free State, Dominion of Newfoundland, the Dominion of New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa.

* 1868 – The first traffic lights are installed, outside the Palace of Westminster in London.

* 1951 – Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, Duke of Westminster

* 1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War.

* 1547 – Edward VI of England is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey.

* 1462 – Treaty of Westminster is finalised between Edward IV of England and the Scottish Lord of the Isles.

* 1559 – Elizabeth I is crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey, London, England.

* 1265 – In Westminster, the first English parliament conducts its first meeting held by Simon de Montfort in the Palace of Westminster, now also known colloquially as the " Houses of Parliament ".

* 1986 – In London, England, United Kingdom, Prince Andrew, Duke of York marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.

* 1877 – At Gilmore's Gardens in New York City, the first Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show opens.

* 1960 – More than 20 million viewers watch the first televised royal wedding when Princess Margaret marries Anthony Armstrong-Jones at Westminster Abbey.

* 1923 – Basil Hume, Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, England ( d. 1999 )

* 1979 – Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster.

While the Great War carried on in Europe ( 1914 – 1918 ), Margaret Mitchell attended Atlanta's Washington Seminary ( now The Westminster Schools ), a " fashionable " private girls ' school with an enrollment of over 300 students.

* 1295 – The first elected representatives from Lancashire are called to Westminster by King Edward I to attend what later became known as " The Model Parliament ".