English cellist Jacqueline du Pré marries Israeli pianist Daniel Barenboim

The Beatles release an immensely successful album, Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, with a cover by British pop-artist Peter Blake

British actor Richard Attenborough makes his first film as a director, Oh! What a Lovely War

English biographer Michael Holroyd completes his two-volume life of Lytton Strachey

The first civil rights march in northern Ireland, in Derry, is halted by the police with batons and water cannon

The Provisional IRA reintroduces terrorism to northern Ireland after Protestants attack a civil rights march

The Anglo-French airliner Concorde makes its first supersonic test flight

British artist duo Gilbert & George attract attention miming to Flanagan and Allen's Underneath the Arches

English novelist John Fowles publishes The French Lieutenant's Woman, set in Lyme Regis in the 1860s

Peter Maxwell Davies writes Eight Songs for a Mad King for the Pierrot Players

Garrick's Villa, now listed Grade 1, is reconverted into nine flats

The first series of Monty Python's Flying Circus is broadcast on British TV

Kew Pond is registered as common land under the Commons Registration Act 1965

British scientists Patrick Steptoe and Robert Edwards fertilize in a test-tube eggs removed from human ovaries

The Queen’s School moves from Kew Green to Cumberland Road

Victorian extensions are stripped away, to return Asgill House to its original perfection both inside and outside

Extensive repairs are carried out to the roof beams and walls at St John's where dry rot has penetrated and the organ is rebuilt

A new Queen’s School is built in Cumberland Road, becoming Kew’s only Anglican school after the closure of the neighbouring St Luke’s School

Russian ballerina Natalia Makarova defects to the west while on tour with the Kirov company in London

Michael Tippett's opera The Knot Garden has its premiere at Covent Garden

Ian Paisley and others in northern Ireland form the Democratic Unionist Party, as the intransigent wing of Ulster Unionism

Gerry Adams is imprisoned for suspected IRA links but is released for lack of evidence

Internment without trial, reintroduced in Ulster to deal with the developing crisis, is used at first only against Catholics suspected of terrorism

British artist David Hockney paints a striking triple portrait in Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar is staged a year after being released as a record