Thus, to cite but one example, the Pax Britannica of the nineteenth century, whether with the British navy ruling the seas or with the City of London ruling world finance, was strictly national in motivation, however much other nations ( e.g., the United States ) may have incidentally benefited.

John, an engineer and anthropologist with a doctorate from the London School of Economics, headed the rural development division of USOM, the United States Operations Mission administering U.S. aid.

* 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.

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

John Newton Late Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch Haw, London: Volume 1, Nathan Whiting, London.

* Aga Khan III, " Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time ", London: Cassel & Company, 1954 ; published same year in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

* 1930 – The United Kingdom, Japan and the United States sign the London Naval Treaty regulating submarine warfare and limiting shipbuilding.

* 1776 – American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.

Aon plc is a British multinational corporation headquartered in London, United Kingdom, that provides risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, human capital and management consulting.

Franklin earned the title of " The First American " for his early and indefatigable campaigning for colonial unity ; as an author and spokesman in London for several colonies, then as the first United States Ambassador to France, he exemplified the emerging American nation.

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

The Balfour Declaration of 1926, a report resulting from the 1926 Imperial Conference of British Empire leaders in London, was named after the British statesman Arthur Balfour, first Earl of Balfour, Lord President of the Council and a previous Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

In 1952, Chaplin left the US for what was intended as a brief trip home to the United Kingdom for the London premiere of Limelight.

For instance, since 2006, annual Canada Day celebrations have been held at Trafalgar Square — the location of Canada House — in London, England ; initiated by the Canadian community in the United Kingdom, endorsed by the Canadian High Commission, and organised by a private promotions company, the event features Canadian performers and a demonstration of street hockey, among other activities.

Courses in chemical engineering offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) in the United States, Owen's College in Manchester, England and University College London suffered under similar circumstances.

Clement Martyn Doke ( 16 May 1893 in Bristol, United Kingdom – 24 February 1980 in East London, South Africa ) was a South African linguist working mainly on African languages.

However, in 1962 the London Beth Din and the Chief Rabbi Israel Brodie, who formed the leadership of the United Synagogue, the UK's Orthodox establishment, refused to allow his appointment on grounds of heresy because in his 1957 book We Have Reason to Believe, Jacobs had rejected the conception of a literal, verbal revelation of the Torah.

In response, Jacobs and many of the New West End congregants established the New London Synagogue, which became the center of Masorti Judaism in the United Kingdom.

Charlton share local London derbies with Millwall, Crystal Palace ; and with east London club West Ham United.

The British House of Lords, as the court of last appeal outside Scotland before the creation of the UK Supreme Court, was not strictly bound to always follow its own decisions until the case London Street Tramways v London County Council AC 375.

It is thought that the first example of a working model tramcar in the UK built by an amateur for fun was in 1929, when Frank E. Wilson created a replica of London County Council Tramways E class car 444 in 1: 16 scale, which he demonstrated at an early Model Engineer Exhibition.

Until 1966, the House of Lords in the United Kingdom was bound to follow all of its previous decisions under the principle of stare decisis, even if this created " injustice " and " unduly restrict ( s ) the proper development of the law " ( London Tramways Co. v London County Council AC 375 ).

Initially it carried horse-drawn trams, but shortly after the bridge's opening it was converted to carry the electric trams of London County Council Tramways ; it continued to carry trams until the ending of tram services in 1951.

By 1933, when the LCC Tramways were taken over by the London Passenger Transport Board, it was the largest tram operator in the United Kingdom, with more than of route and over 1, 700 tramcars.

Another surviving tram shed, which can still be seen near the junction of Brixton Hill with Christchurch Road, was designed by London County Council Tramways ' architect G. Topham Forest, and had a capacity of 30 trams.

* Tramways: the South London tramways of London Transport, all of which were abandoned by 5 July 1952

It was built in 1906 by the London County Council Tramways as part of the Kingsway tramway subway, joining the separate networks of tramways in North and South London.

It was built in 1906 by the London County Council Tramways as part of the Kingsway tramway subway, joining the separate networks of tramways in North and South London.

Some of the spurts in residential building booms in the area can be attributed to the GWR railway station opening at Ealing Dean in 1871 and the later extension from the station to Greenford via Castle Bar Park railway station and Drayton Green railway station ; the London United Tramways Company line opening between Ealing and Southall in 1901 ; and the Metropolitan District Railway " halt " opening at Northfields in 1907.

* The London County Council Tramways Trust —- responsible for the restoration of London nos.

The station later worked in conjunction with the ex-London County Council Tramways power station at Greenwich to supply the London Underground network.

London Tramways two-horse tram, about 1890

The British registered the Calcutta Tramways Company, Limited as a joint stock company in London in 1880.

The Bombay Electric Supply and Tramways Company was established in London under the English Companies Act, and on 22 July 1905, it was registered in Mumbai under the Indian Companies Act of 1882.

West Ham Corporation Tramways operated 134 tram cars on of tracks when they became the responsibility of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.

The district ran its own tram services as Erith Urban District Council Tramways until they became the responsibility of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.

The borough ran Leyton Urban District Council Tramways tram services until they became the responsibility of the London Passenger Transport Board in 1933.

Map of London Heathrow Airport showing the proposed extension and third runway.

a structured extension of SNOBOL called Snostorm existed at University College London ( UCL )

These bus services were improved in frequency and spread in 2007 to complement the western extension of the London congestion charge area, which required vehicles driving into or around Kensington in charging hours Monday-Friday to pay a daily fee of £ 8.

This location made passenger access to the City of London difficult, and at that time proposals were considered for an extension, but they were abandoned on grounds of cost.

Although the Central London Railway ( CLR ) was incorporated in 1891 for a line between Shepherd's Bush and Bank, with an extension to Liverpool Street authorised in 1892, the time for completion had to be extended twice, to 1894 and 1899 ; and it was not until 27 June 1900 that it was formally opened, a month before public traffic began on 30 July to Bank station.

:: An extension beyond West Ruislip to Harefield Road and Denham was planned ( and shown on tube maps of the period ) but was abandoned, along with the Northern Heights extensions of the Northern line, due to post-war establishment of the Metropolitan Green Belt around London, which restricted development of land in the area.

An extension at the southern end of the line to Camberwell and Denmark Hill was proposed and approved in 1931 as part of the London Electric Metropolitan District and Central London Railway Companies ( Works ) Act, 1931.

In April 1937, the estimated cost of the extension was £ 5, 000, 000 ( approximately £ today ) and the London Passenger Transport Board announced that, due to rising materials prices, the extension was postponed until the Board's finances improved.

Following its extension into East London, serving areas once poorly connected to the Underground, the line has seen a huge growth in passenger numbers and is currently the third busiest on the network with over 213 million passengers per year.

* Phase 3 would have seen the line continue under the river to Surrey Docks ( now Surrey Quays ) station on the East London Line, taking over both of the ELL's branches to and Stations, with an extension to Lewisham.

The first and last new stations on the extension, Clapham South and Morden, include a parade of shops and were designed with structures capable of being built above ( like many of the earlier central London stations ).

On 13 September 1926, the extension of the Hampstead & Highgate line ( as the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line was then known ) was opened from Embankment to the existing City & South London Railway station Kennington with a new station at Waterloo.

The station was temporarily the western terminus of the extension running from Stratford in east London, before the final section to link the extension to the original line was opened between Waterloo and Green Park on 20 November 1999.

As reported in Edward Walford's Old and New London ( 1878 ), " In past times it was planted with gibbets, on which the bleaching bones of men who had dared to ask for some extension of liberty, or who doubted the infallibility of kings, were left year after year to dangle in the wind.

London Underground have planned a Bakerloo line extension to Camberwell on at least three occasions since the 1930s, and this is again said to be under consideration.

The process of change has been accelerated since the East London line extension ( to be renamed the East London Railway on completion ) and since the reopening of Dalston Junction Station was confirmed in the run-up to London's successful bid to hold the 2012 Olympics.

It is currently undergoing rapid gentrification, partly because of the construction of a new railway station at Dalston Junction, part of the extension of the East London Line completed in 2010 and partly due to the revitalisation of large parts of east London in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics ( Hackney is one of the four host boroughs of the Games ).

Planning permission has been granted to open Surrey Canal Road station which will be on the East London Line phase 2 extension to Clapham Junction station.

The Central London District School at Hanwell was built between 1856 and 1861 by a group of central London poor law unions to house and educate pauper children away from the workhouse ; the original site at Norwood having proved to be too small and unsuitable for extension.