* Rotherhithe, London

Road tunnels were built in East London at the end of the 19th century, being the Blackwall Tunnel and the Rotherhithe Tunnel.

There is also a Murdoch House in Rotherhithe, London.

Taking up residence at Rotherhithe in London, Haakon was an important national symbol in the Norwegian resistance.

Bermondsey had been host to London's first railway, from Spa Road, as part of the London Bridge to Greenwich line, and the junction of lines from Croydon and Kent at South Bermondsey, the Brunel's Rotherhithe foot-tunnel was converted into part of the East London Railway with original connections from Liverpool Street Station via Whitechapel to New Cross and New Cross Gate.

** Hilton Docklands Nelson Dock Pier, the official name of a pier on the south bank of the River Thames in Rotherhithe, London

Rotherhithe () is a residential district in southeast London, England, and part of the London Borough of Southwark.

Following the arrival of the Jubilee line in 1999 ( giving quick connections to the West End and to Canary Wharf ) and the London Overground in 2010 ( providing a quick route to the City of London ), the rest of Rotherhithe is now a rapidly gentrifying residential and commuter area, with current regeneration progressing most quickly around Canada Water, where a new town centre with restaurant and retail units as well as new residential developments is emerging around the existing freshwater lake and transport hub.

The most popular team in Rotherhithe is Millwall Football Club located nearby in the boundaries of the London Borough of Lewisham.

The bombing of the old Rotherhithe Town Hall, during the London Blitz and later in Second World War, gives an indication of how heavy the bombing in Rotherhithe was.

Squeezed between the high walls of the docks and warehouses, the district became isolated from the rest of London, although some relief was provided by Brunel's Thames Tunnel to Rotherhithe.

Bancroft was born in Rotherhithe, London.

Born in Rotherhithe, the son of a London watchmaker, Glaisher was a Junior assistant at the Cambridge Observatory from 1833 to 1835 before moving to the Royal Greenwich Observatories, where he served as Superintendent of the Department of Meteorology and Magnetism at Greenwich for thirty-four years.

The Thames Tunnel is an underwater tunnel, built beneath the River Thames in London, United Kingdom, connecting Rotherhithe and Wapping.

Commemorative plaque at Rotherhithe tube station before the East London line was closed in 2007

* The Brunel Museum – Based in Rotherhithe, London the museum is housed in the building that contained the pumps to keep the Thames Tunnel dry

The Rotherhithe Tunnel is a road tunnel crossing beneath the River Thames in East London.

It connects the Ratcliff district of Limehouse in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets north of the river to Rotherhithe in the London Borough of Southwark south of the river.

Designed by Sir Maurice Fitzmaurice, the Engineer to the London County Council, the tunnel's construction was authorised by the Thames Tunnel ( Rotherhithe and Ratcliff ) Act of 1900 despite considerable opposition from local residents, nearly 3, 000 of whom were displaced by the tunnel works.

Like many other London tunnels and bridges, the Rotherhithe Tunnel now carries far more traffic than it was designed for.

In July 1620, the Mayflower sailed from Rotherhithe for Southampton on the south coast of England, to begin loading food and supplies for the voyage to New England.

Rotherhithe railway station is a railway station on the southern bank of the river Thames at Rotherhithe, London, England.

In the 1920s antiquarian J. Rendel Harris concluded that the barn had been built with timbers from a ship called the " Mayflower " bought from a shipbreaker's yard in Rotherhithe and that this was the Mayflower which carried the Pilgrim Fathers from Plymouth to New England.

St Mary's Church, Rotherhithe is the local Church of England parish church in Rotherhithe, formerly in Surrey and now part of south east London.

To reduce further the flow of goods from England, the Company's local officials asked that its London authorities refrain from forwarding any more trade goods to these men.

Reared in England, she studied to be a teacher, earned several scholarships and was graduated with honors from the University of London.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

Thames and Hudson, London, England, 1997.

* 1814 – The Convention of London, a treaty between the United Kingdom and the United Provinces, is signed in London, England.

* 1870 – Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

However, both Julius and Ethel wanted their children to be brought up in England, so they moved to Maida Vale, London, where Turing was born on 23 June 1912, as recorded by a blue plaque on the outside of the house of his birth, later the Colonnade Hotel.

* 2001 – The Real IRA detonates a car bomb in Ealing, London, England, United Kingdom injuring seven people.

* 1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's " The Lost Chord ", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.

* 1910 – Frenchman Louis Paulhan wins the 1910 London to Manchester air race, the first long-distance aeroplane race in England.

* 1305 – William Wallace, who led the Scottish resistance against England, is captured by the English near Glasgow and transported to London where he is put on trial and executed.

The artist for whom he showed particular sympathy and regard in London was Benjamin Haydon, who might at the time be counted the sole representative of historical painting there, and whom he especially honored for his championship of the then recently transported to England and ignorantly depreciated by polite connoisseurs Parthenon's marbles.

In 1974, Acadia was granted a coat of arms designed by the College of Arms in London, England.

* 1675 – The foundation stone of the Royal Greenwich Observatory in London, England is laid.

It seems that Pope Gregory, ignorant of recent developments in the former Roman province, including the spread of the Pelagian heresy, had intended the new archiepiscopal sees for England to be established in London and York.

By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

* 1606 – The Charter of the Virginia Company of London is established by royal charter by James I of England with the purpose of establishing colonial settlements in North America.

King John of England gave the Abbey permission to buy and sell goods anywhere in England ( except London ) toll-free.

Having held a prebend at Holborn ( prior to 1229 ) and a canonry of St. Paul ’ s in London ( 1226-1229 ), He visited England in 1230 and received a canonry and an archdeaconry in Coventry and Lichfield, his native diocese.

London 6: Westminster ( from the Buildings of England series ).

Barges towed by a tugboat on the River Thames in London, England, United Kingdom

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.