Four English suicide bombers cause 52 deaths on London's transport system during the morning rush hour

A Brazilian citizen, Jean Charles de Menezes, is killed on the London underground by police mistaking him for a terrorist

The Provisional IRA announces a formal end to armed conflict and orders units to dump all their weapons

David Cameron wins the Tory leadership election, succeeding Michael Howard as the Leader of the Opposition in Britain

The Pagoda in Kew Gardens is reopened to the public, providing a wonderful view for those willing to pay extra and climb the 253 steps to the top.

After extensive restoration, what is now called Kew Palace (previously the Dutch House) is opened again to the public.

New South stand opens at Twickenham rugby stadium increasing capacity to 82,000.

A lease on Strawberry Hill house is granted to the Strawberry Hill Trust and restoration of the house begins.

After major damage by fire, the elegant Grade 2 house of West Hall is restored by the Bissell Thomas family

War Horse, a play with life-size horse puppets by the Handspring Puppet Company,. opens at London's National Theatre and goes on to have an astonishing international success

A huge fire at Garrick's Villa does enormous damage to building and several flats are gutted

The Orleans House Gallery reaches the final shortlist of four for the prestigious £100,000 annual prize awarded each year by the Art Fund

Prince William marries Kate Middleton in London's Westminster Abbey in a ceremony watched by millions of viewers around the world

Brilliant new ballerina Natalia Osipova leaves the Bolshoi Ballet to have more artistic freedom, and from 2013 is with the Royal Ballet in London

The Shard, an 87-storey building in London designed by Renzo Piano, is completed, becojming the tallest building in the European Union

The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, breaks bail and seeks asylum in the Equadorian embassy in London

Anish Kapoor's 114.5 metres tall sculpture, AncelorMittal Orbit, is erected in the Queen Elizabeth Park, created in East London for the Olympic Games

Plans are published for an ambitious Garden Bridge, designed for pedestrians by Thomas Heatherwick, to span the Thames in London with trees and a garden on its surface

Laure Prouvost, a French artist working in London, wins the Turner Prize with her work Wantee, evoking a fictional relationship between her grandfather and Kurt Schwitters

In a London street two men hack to death a British soldier, Lee Rigby, and tell passers-by that they are avenging Muslims killed by the army