* 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.

MS 24 ) is a 12th century English illuminated manuscript bestiary that was first listed in 1542 in the inventory of the Old Royal Library at the Palace of Westminster.

John Leech ( caricaturist ) | John Leech's " Cartoon no. 1: Substance and Shadow " ( 1843 ) satirized preparatory cartoons for frescoes in the Palace of Westminster, creating the modern meaning of " cartoon ".

The first of these parodied the preparatory cartoons for grand historical frescoes in the then-new Palace of Westminster.

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

In 1843 he submitted work to the Westminster Cartoon Competition, for compositions to decorate the new Palace of Westminster.

Prompted by the receipt of an anonymous letter, the authorities searched Westminster Palace during the early hours of 5 November, and found Fawkes guarding the explosives.

The following day, Thomas Wintour, Ambrose Rookwood, Robert Keyes, and Guy Fawkes were hanged, drawn and quartered, opposite the building they had planned to blow up, in the Old Palace Yard at Westminster.

According to the findings of the programme, no one within of the blast could have survived, and all of the stained glass windows in Westminster Abbey would have been shattered, as would all of the windows in the vicinity of the Palace.

Monarchy of the United Kingdom | Queen Elizabeth II arrives at the Palace of Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament.

On this date, the Scots Parliament and the English Parliament united to form the Parliament of Great Britain, based in the Palace of Westminster in London, the home of the English Parliament.

He had three children by Matilda ( Edith ), who died on 1 May 1118 at the Palace of Westminster.

At his mother's funeral, Harry, then twelve years old, accompanied his father, brother, paternal grandfather, and maternal uncle in walking behind the funeral cortège from Kensington Palace to Westminster Abbey.

In 1836 he sent his first picture to the exhibition of the Society of British Artists, and in 1845 he contributed a cartoon, An Allegory of Justice, to a competition for designs for the mural decoration of the new Palace of Westminster.

* 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 ".

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

Her privy purse expenses for this period show that Hatfield House, the Palace of Beaulieu ( also called Newhall ), Richmond and Hunsdon were among her principal places of residence, as well as Henry's palaces at Greenwich, Westminster and Hampton Court.

* 1605 – The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foils Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.

* 1834 – Much of the ancient structure of the Palace of Westminster in London burns to the ground.

Palace of Westminster | British parliament

The Palace of Westminster is the meeting place of the House of Commons and the House of Lords, the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Commonly known as the Houses of Parliament after its tenants, the Palace lies on the Middlesex bank of the River Thames in the City of Westminster, in central London.

The video game Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas features a casino named " Caligulas Palace " ( A spoof of Caesar's Palace ) in the Las Venturas region of the in-game world.

* The White Palace in South Street has an exterior with Art Deco features.

The Pink Palace Museum serves as the Mid-South's major science and historical museum, and features exhibits ranging from archeology to chemistry.

* The novel The Palace by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro features Savonarola as the main antagonist of the vampire Saint Germain.

The city centre lies near the river and features a large triumphal arch dedicated to Bokassa, the Presidential Palace and the central market.

The city features noteworthy buildings such as the Gothic Saint-Stephen Cathedral, the Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, its Station Palace, or its Opera House, the oldest one working in France.

The Inquisition Palace, finished in 1770, preserves its original features of colonial times.

The main features of central Genoa include Piazza De Ferrari, around which are sited the Opera and the Palace of the Doges.

The school moved from Princes Gate in Kensington to Hampton Court Palace in 1987 and now features fine views of the palace gardens.

The city features noteworthy buildings such as the Gothic Saint-Stephen Cathedral, the Basilica of Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, its Station Palace, or its Opera House, the oldest one working in France.

The second treasure gallery, located on the ground floor in the southwestern corner of the Winter Palace, features jewellery from the Pontic steppes, Caucasus and Asia, in particular Scythian and Sarmatian gold.

* Petersburg, by Andrey Bely, features the Winter Canal near the palace as one of its central locations, but never names the Winter Palace directly.

Set in San Francisco, California, the film features many famous sights and neighborhoods of the Golden State metropolis, including the Golden Gate Bridge, the Palace of Fine Arts and Alcatraz.

* Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: Re-Discovering Antiquity Through The Dreams Of Poliphilus ( 2007 ) by Esteban Alejandro Cruz features more than 50 original colour reconstructions of the architecture and topiary gardens of eight monuments described in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: A Great Pyramid, A Great Hippodromus, An Elephant bearing an Obelisk, A Monument to the Un-Happy Horse, the Grand Arch, The Palace and Gardens of Queen Eleutirillide ( Liberty ), The Temple to Venus Physizoa, and the Polyandrion ( Cemetery of Lost Loves ).

Very similar features marked the courts of all very large monarchies, whether in Delhi, Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, Ancient Rome, Byzantium, or the Caliphs of Baghdad or Cairo.

Many of the original features survive along with the Palace, and now there are other public buildings such as the Albert Memorial ( at the south-east corner of Kensington Gardens, opposite the Royal Albert Hall ), the Serpentine Gallery, and Speke's monument.

It features exhibits and galleries showcases the heritage of the Presidents beginning from Emilio Aguinaldo to Benigno Aquino III, as well as the artwork and furniture from the Palace collections.

Intended as a recreational retreat, the main features of the planned complex for the park were three buildings: a recreation hall used for official entertaining, a community assembly hall for conferences with local government officials, and a rest house directly opposite the Palace across the Pasig River which would serve as the venue for informal activities and social functions of the President and First Family.

* Palace of the reigning princes ( 1597 ), now museum — features a Versailles-style Hall of Mirrors ( 1722 ) as well as the actual rooms where much of J. S. Bach's secular music was first performed.

* Britain's Best Buildings-Only the episode that features the Palace of Westminster is broadcast, usually edited down into short segments that focus on one specific feature of the palace.

It is the local high street and features major music venues at either end ( KOKO, the former Camden Palace, at the southern end and the bridge over Regent's Canal at the northern end ).

She features in the Evening Standards list of London ’ s 1000 most influential people and in 2004 was named as one of 200 women of achievement by Buckingham Palace.

The underside of the Palace rotunda's dome features eight large insets, which originally contained murals by Robert Reid.