The tale was highlighted by the Lord Mayor of London, Gilbert Inglefield, at the bicentennial of the Britannica.

The Greater London Authority consisting of the Mayor of London and the London Assembly, headquartered in City Hall, has been responsible for strategic local government since 2000.

The Greater London Authority, London Assembly and the directly elected Mayor of London were created in 2000 by the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

Other suspected sources of the plague were cats and dogs, most of which the Lord Mayor of London at the time had caused to be exterminated.

In the event, only a London Assembly ( and directly elected Mayor ) was established.

These included storms, the first tram, visit of the Lord Mayor of London, Hastings Marathon Race and the pier fire of 1917.

The new authority had similar powers to the old GLC, but was made up of a directly elected Mayor and a London Assembly.

The London Plan, published by the Mayor of London in 2004, estimated that the population would reach 8. 1 million by 2016, and continue to rise thereafter.

He was touted as a possible Conservative candidate for the Mayor of London elections in 2008, but turned down an offer from Conservative leader David Cameron.

* Robert Kite, Lord Mayor of London in 1766

Since 2003 LUL has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Transport for London ( TfL ), the statutory corporation responsible for most aspects of the transport system in Greater London, which is run by a board and a commissioner appointed by the Mayor of London.

" The Lord Mayor, Sheriffs and Aldermen of the City, treated their King with a collation under a tent, placed in St. George's Fields ; and five or six hundred citizens cloathed in coats of black velvet, and ( not improperly ) wearing chains about their necks, by an order of the Common Council, attended on the triumph of that day ;... and those who had been so often defeated in the field, and had contributed nothing either of bravery or policy to this change, in ordering the souldiery to ride with swords drawn through the city of London to White Hall, the Duke of York and Monk leading the way ; and intimating ( as was supposed ) a resolution to maintain that by force which had been obtained by fraud.

* 2000 – Ken Livingstone becomes the first Mayor of London.

* Jules Pipe CBE, Mayor of the London Borough of Hackney, UK

* 4-Mary Donaldson, Baroness Donaldson of Lymington, 82, first female Lord Mayor of London.

Richard Lovelace's mother, Anne Barne ( 1587 – 1633 ), was the daughter of Sir William Barne and the granddaughter of Sir George Barne III ( 1532-d. 1593 ), the Lord Mayor of London and a prominent merchant and public official from London during the reign of Elizabeth I ; and Anne Gerrard, daughter of Sir William Garrard, who was Lord Mayor of London in 1555.

The Mayor is finding it awkward to campaign against his own record.

Mr. Wagner might or might not be a `` new '' Mayor in this third term, now that he is free of the pressure of those party leaders whom he calls `` bosses ''.

Lawmaking power is removed from the Board of Estimate and made a partnership responsibility of the City Council and the Mayor.

The expense ( operating ) budget is to be a program budget, and red tape is cut to allow greater autonomy ( with the Mayor approving ) in fund transfers within a department.

Their view is that last-minute changes the Mayor is proposing to make in the Democratic ticket only emphasize the weakness of his performance as Mayor.

The present Mayor is Élio Manuel Delgado da Maia, elected by a coalition between the Social Democratic Party and the Democratic Social Centre.

The Governing Mayor is simultaneously Lord Mayor of the city ( Oberbürgermeister der Stadt ) and Prime Minister of the Federal State ( Ministerpräsident des Bundeslandes ).

The office of Berlin's Governing Mayor is in the Rotes Rathaus ( Red City Hall ).

The Mayor of Bayonne ( 1995 – 2007 ) is Jean Grenet of the centre-right UMP.

The game is started by the Mayor of Bodmin by throwing a silver ball into a body of water known as the " Salting Pool ".

Today, the City University is governed by the Board of Trustees composed of 17 members, ten of whom are appointed by the Governor of New York " with the advice and consent of the senate ," and five by the Mayor of New York City " with the advice and consent of the senate.

It is presided over by the Lord Mayor, who is elected for a yearly term and resides in Mansion House.

: The successful resistance in the Great Siege is attributed to several factors: the improvement in fortifications by Colonel ( later Mayor General Sir ) William Green in 1769 ; the British naval supremacy, which translated into support of the Navy ; the competent command by General George Augustus Elliot ; and an appropriately sized garrison.

Membership in a livery company is expected for individuals participating in the governance of The City, as the Lord Mayor and the Remembrancer.

* 2004 – Millennium Park, considered Chicago, Illinois's first and most ambitious early 21st century architectural project, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M. Daley.

* 1990 – Washington, D. C. Mayor Marion Barry is arrested for drug possession in an FBI sting.

The Mayor of the city is selected by the President of Afghanistan, who engages in planning and environmental work.

* 1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.

He was elected as an alderman and as Mayor of Greeneville, Tennessee before being elected to the state assembly.

In 1829 Johnson helped organize a mechanics ' party ticket ; he was elected as a town alderman, and re-elected until he was elected Mayor in 1834.

Mayor Richard J. Daley, a Democrat, was elected in 1955, in the era of machine politics.

in France, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as Mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor and magistrate in Britain.

He served as deputy chairman of the SPD party of Wuppertal, and was elected later on to the City Council ( 1964 – 1978 ), where he served as chairman of the SPD Group ( 1964 – 1967 ) and later as Mayor ( 1969 – 1970 ).

This time Nicaraguans elected former-Managua Mayor Arnoldo Alemán, leader of the center-right Liberal Alliance, which later consolidated into the Constitutional Liberal Party ( PLC ).

* 1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

Shirley Dean was first elected Mayor of Berkeley in 1994 after a close run-off race.

When district elections were adopted in Berkeley in 1986 Dean was the first elected council member from District 5, she held the seat until 1994 when she was elected Mayor.

The Mattachine Society succeeded in getting newly elected Mayor John Lindsay to end the campaign of police entrapment in New York.

In 2011, Arturas Zuokas was elected Mayor.

Susanna M. Salter was elected Mayor of Argonia, Kansas, in 1887, and Jeannette Rankin of Montana was elected to Congress in 1916.

* November 12 – June Rowlands is elected the first female Mayor of Toronto.

* October 13 – Richard Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London for a second full term.

In 1915 he was elected as the 41st Mayor of Chicago.