2500 BC Stone village with stone furniture
A small neolithic community builds a village at Skara Brae in the Orkneys, of stone houses with built-in stone furniture

1599 Globe built on Bankside
The Globe, where many of Shakespeare's plays are first performed, is built on Bankside in London

1710 New St Paul's completed
Christopher Wren's new domed St Paul's cathedral is completed in London

1750 Horace Walpole begins Strawberry Hill
Horace Walpole begins to create his own Strawberry Hill, a neo-Gothic fantasy, on the banks of the Thames west of London

1815 Exotic pavilion in Brighton
English architect John Nash designs the exotic Royal Pavilion in Brighton for the Prince Regent

1822 Walter Scott starts Abbotsford
Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle'

1835 Pugin and the Gothic Revival
English architect and designer Augustus Welby Pugin plays a major part in the second stage of the Gothic Revival

1837 Barry begins Houses of Parliament
Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament

1851 Osborne House completed
Thomas Cubitt completes Osborne House, designed as a quiet retreat for Victoria and Albert on the Isle of Wight

1851 Crystal Palace built in six months
Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, built in London in six months, is the world's first example of prefabricated architecture

1852 Victoria opens new House of Parliament
Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin

1856 New royal castle at Balmoral
Victoria and Albert complete their fairy-tale castle at Balmoral, adding greatly to the nation's romantic view of Scotland

1859 Big Ben chimes
A 13-ton bell is installed above London's Houses of Parliament, soon giving its name (Big Ben) to both the clock and the clock-tower

1863 Albert Memorial
British architect George Gilbert Scott designs a memorial for Prince Albert in Kensington Gardens

1898 Howard launches 'garden city' concept
English town-planner Ebenezer Howard puts forward a Utopian scheme in Tomorrow a Peaceful Path to Real Reform

1904 Hill House completed in Helensburgh
The publisher Walter Blackie moves into Hill House at Helensburgh, designed for him by Charles Rennie Mackintosh

1932 Lubetkin and Tecton
Russian-born architect Berthold Lubetkin and others set up in London the modernist firm of Tecton

1963 Foster and Rogers form Team 4
Young British architects Norman Foster and Richard Rogers work together as Team 4

1984 New Stuttgart art gallery
British architects James Stirling and Michael Wilford complete a new art gallery for Stuttgart

1998 Hong Kong International Airport
The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport