1193 Bridge across the Thames at Kingston
A documentary reference to Kingston Bridge is first recorded in 1193; it has stone revetments but a flimsy wooden structure in constant need of repair

1342 First know vicar of St Mary's, Hampton
The Vicars of St Mary's Church in Hampton are known back to 1342 and the old Church possibly existed from c.1250

1514 Wolsey leases Hampton Court
Thomas Wolsey leases Hampton Court from Henry Daubeney

1514-1522 Wolsey adds Great Gatehouse at Hampton Court
Wolsey's first phase of work at Hampton Court adds a whole new courtyard of accomodation, Base Court, and an imposing Great Gatehouse

1522-1528 Wolsey's Chapel is completed at Hampton Court
The second phase of Wolsey's work at Hampton Court includes the creation of three suites fit for Royal occupation, a suite of rooms for himself and a magnificant Chapel

1528 Wolsey order to leave Hampton Court
Henry VIII orders Wolsey to vacate Hampton Court after Wolsey has opposed the King's divorce from his first wife, Catherine of Aragon

1529 Henry VIII creates his private quarters at Hampton Court
Henry's first phase of building at Hampton Court includes the construction of all the rooms required for operations of the kitchens, a Council Chamber and private rooms for himself

1529 Gardens at Hampton Court for Henry VIII
Plans are laid for the King's new gardens at Hampton Court including the Privy Garden, Pond Yard and Mount Garden

1532 Henry VIII rebuilds Great Hall at Hampton Court
Henry rebuilds the Great Hall at Hampton Court, the first in a sequence of rooms leading towards his private lodgings

1532 Privy Garden completed at Hampton Court
The Privy Garden at Hampton Court is completed and is divided up into squares by 180 posts topped with heraldic beasts and is said to resemble a chess board in red, white and green

1535 Henry VIII enhances chapel at Hampton Court
Henry modernises the Chapel at Hampton Court and adds the magnificent ceiling

1536 Water Gallery at Hampton Court
A Water Gallery, over 170ft long, is constructed and incorporates a landing stage for the King's Barge at Hampton Court with a Pleasure Gallery above

1536 A deer park for the navy
Henry VIII encloses land to the north of Hampton Court Palace as a deer park, and plants it with acorns to provide oak for the navy

1540 Astronomical clock at Hampton Court
Nicolas Oursian creates an astronomical clock for Henry VIII at Hampton Court

1604 Thorn bushes bestow their name on park
Bushy Park has by now acquired its familiar name, from the thorn bushes planted to protect the sapling oaks from the deer

1638-1639 Longford River provides water for Hampton Court gardens
The Longford River is constructed to take water from the River Colne over Hounslow Heath to the Hampton Court Parks to supply water to the gardens.

1662 Long Water constructed at Hampton Court
The Long Water at Hampton Court (3800 ft long), supplied by the Longford River, is constructed flanked by avenues of Dutch limes aligned on the Queen's Drawing Room and a semi-circular canal at the East Front

1663 Edward Proger builds house
Bushy House is built by Edward Proger, in the royal enclosure now known as Bushy Park, by order of Charles II

1679 Tower of St Mary's Church rebuilt
The tower of St Mary's Church is rebuilt in red brick, replacing one of flint and stone

1689-1694 William and Mary modernize Hampton Court
William III and Mary II embark on extensive work at Hampton Court including demolition of the old Royal lodgings and building of new South and East Fronts around a new quadrangle, the Fountain Court

1689 Great Fountain Garden at Hampton Court
The Great Fountain Garden at Hampton Court, occupying the semi-circle of land between the East Front and the park, is designed with 13 fountains powered by the Longford River

1689 Great Fountain at Hampton Court
The Great Fountain Garden at Hampton Court, occupying the semi-circle of land between the East Front and the park, is designed with 13 fountains powered by the Longford River

1694 Work at Hampton Court suspended for three years
Mary II dies of smallpox and building work at Hampton Court is suspended for 3 years due to William's grief and also for financial reasons due to the enormous expenditure

1695 New Privy Garden at Hampton Court
The new Privy Garden at Hampton Court is built (the Mount had previously been levelled) including a new elm bower and a new Great Parterre of complex design and an Orangery

1699 Grinling Gibbons works in King's Appartments at Hampton Court
Grinling Gibbons begins work on carving decorative features and architectural mouldings in the King's Appartments at Hampton Court

1699 Christopher Wren design for avenue
The Chestnut Avenue through Bushy Park is laid out for William III to a design by Sir Christopher Wren

1700 Banqueting House at Hampton Court
The Banqueting House at Hampton Court is built with carving by Grinling Gibbons and a painted interior which is the work, at least in part, of Antonio Verrio

1713 Edward Proger dies
Edward Proger dies in Bushy House at the age of 96

1713 Diana fountain in round pond
The Diana or Arethusa Fountain, decorated with bronze sculptures by Hubert Le Sueur, is placed in the centre of the round pond in Bushy Park

1726 North aisle of St Mary's Church
North aisle of St Mary's Church is built, with vaults beneath, and school room (earlier building for Hampton School) and vestry room attached

1753 First Hampton Court Bridge
The first, highly decorative, Hampton Court Bridge with seven steep sided arches opens and replaces the ferry and the ford used in the drier season

1754 David Garrick leases a villa in Hampton
David Garrick, famous Shakespearian actor, leases and then buys what was known as Hampton House, now Garrick's Villa, as a country retreat and place to entertain friends

1755-1756 Garrick's Temple is built
Garrick's Temple, designer unknown but possibly modelled on Lord Burlington's temple at Chiswick House, is built by David Garrick to entertain friends and house his Shakespeare mementos

1758 Garrick commissions a statue of Shakespeare
Garrick commissions from Roubiliac a statue of Shakespeare for a large niche in the Temple at Hampton. The original is now in the British Museum and an exact is replica in Garrick's Temple

1760 Hampton Court ceases to be royal dwelling
Hampton Court is effectively abandoned by George III as a Royal dwelling and gradually becomes occupied by "Grace and Favour" residents

1778 Second Hampton Court Bridge
The second wooden Hampton Court Bridge, of sturdier construction than the first bridge, opens and is 350 feet long, 18 feet wide, and has ten arches raised on piles

1797 Duke of Clarence and Dora Jordan in Bushy House
The king's son, William, Duke of Clarence, becomes Keeper (or Ranger) of Bushy Park and establishes his mistress, the actress Dora Jordan, in Bushy House

1798 Mary born to Dora and Duke of Clarence
Dora gives birth in Bushy House to Mary, the first of seven children of the Duke of Clarence to be born in the house in the following nine years

1811 Dora Jordan leaves Bushy House
Dora Jordan is forced to leave Bushy House after being abandoned by her royal lover, the Duke of Clarence

1823 Roubiliac statue of Shakespeare in British Museum
After the death of Eva Garrick, David Garrick's widow, in 1822 the contents of Garrick's Villa are auctioned and the Roubiliac statue from the Temple goes to the British Museum

1825-1828 New bridge at Kingston authorised
An act of 1825 authorises the building of a new Kingston Bridge, fifty yards upstream, which is designed by Edward Lapidge

1828 Kingston Bridge opened
The new Kingston Bridge is opened by the Duchess of Clarence on 17 July 1828 and the new approach road is named Clarence Street in her honour

1829-1830 Old St Mary's Church demolished
Old St Mary's Church is demolished but many monuments are transferred to a new Church on the same site and the vaults continue to be used under the new building

1831 New St Mary's Church iin Hampton
New St Mary's Church opens, designed by Edward Lapidge, in white brick with stone dressings in Gothic revival style and with sqare pinnacled tower at the west end

1831 St John's Church completed in Hampton Wick
The Church of St John's, dedicated to St John the Baptist and designed by Edward Lapidge, is completed in Hampton Wick

1834 New parish of St John's in Hampton Wick
St John's, originally a daughter-chapel of St Mary's Hampton, is declared an independent parish and the chapel is given the status of a Church

1838 Hampton Court opened to public
Queen Victoria opens Hampton Court Palace to the public

1852 Metropolis Water Act passed
The first Metropolis Water Act is passed which forbids the taking of water by the water companies from the tidal Thames and this leads to the establishment of what was to become Hampton Waterworks

1855 Hampton Waterworks established
By 1855 the Southwark and Vauxhall, the Grand Junction and the West Middlesex Water Companies have all established works at Hampton and these are now collectively known as Hampton Waterworks

1865 Garrick's Villa enlarged
A west wing is added to Garrick's Villa by Sylvanus Phillips

1865 Third Hampton Court Bridge
The third Hampton Court Bridge is built, replacing one on the same line that was pulled down in 1864, made of wrought-iron lattice girders in five spans on cast-iron columns

1876 New pews in St John's
New pews are installed in St John's and the second pulpit is removed

1887 Chancel added to St Mary's
A chancel is added at the east end of St Mary's Church to celebrate the Golden Jubilee of Queeen Victoria

1900 Bushy House home to National Physical Laboratory
Queen Victoria gives permission for the newly founded National Physical Laboratory to move into Bushy House and its grounds

1902 Garrick's Villa is reached by tramways.
The road outside Garrick's Villa is widened for the coming of the trams and the house is bought by London United Tramways. General Manager Clifton Robinson occupies the villa

1902 Metroplolis Water Act passed
The Metropolis Water Act of 1902 places the original water companies and Hampton Waterworks in the hands of the Metropolitan Water Board (established 1903)

1906 Trams cross Kingston Bridge
A new tram service is launched by London United Tramways on 1 Mar 1906 that crosses Kingston Bridge

1907 Taxi cab meters tested for accuracy
The National Physical Laboratory begins an ongoing and still continuing task, testing for accuracy the meters of taxi cabs

1911 Laboratory opens 150 meter ship tank
A ship tank, 150 metres long, is opened at the National Physical Laboratory for marine testing

1912-1914 Kingston Bridge widened
Kingston Bridge is widened and the carriageway increased from 25 to 55 feet with a new facade of Portland Stone to replicate features of the original

1915 Light railway for Hampton's Metropolitan Water Board
The Metropolitan Water Board Light Railway, with a two foot guage, is constructed to connect the coal wharf and pumping stations in Hampton Waterworks and the Kempton Park pumping station

1922 Garrick's Villa divided
Garrick's Villa is divided into seven flats by Flora Hutchinson

1923 Garrick's Villa is sold
Garrick's Villa Estate is split up and auctioned. Garrick's Temple and Temple Lawn are sold to Paul Glaize who builds a house, Temple House, joined onto the Temple

1930-1933 Fourth Hampton Court Bridge commenced
Starting in 1930, the fourth Hampton Court Bridge is constucted, slightly downstream from the previous bridge, of ferro-concrete faced with red brick and portland stone in the Wren style

1933 Garrick's Temple is saved
A public outcry over the building of Temple House joined onto Garrick's Temple runs very high. The Council purchases the site for public recreation and demolishes the house

1933 Fourth Hampton Court Bridge opened
The fourth Hampton Court Bridge, designed by Edwin Lutyens, is opened by the Price of Wales, on 3 July 1933, who also opens Chiswick Bridge and Twickenham Bridge on the same day

1942 Dambusters' bouncing bomb tested in ship tank
Early tests of the Dambusters' bouncing bomb are carried out at the National Physical Laboratory's ship tank

1955 First caesium atomic clock developed
The first accurate caesium clock is developed at the National Physical Laboratory

1969 Garrick's Villa listed Grade 1
Garrick's Villa, now listed Grade 1, is reconverted into nine flats

1970 Repairs to roof of St John's
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

1973 Thames Water takes control of Hampton Waterworks
Thames Water Authority takes over from the Metropolitan Water Board and Hampton waterworks becomes part of Thames Water which is later privatised

1986 Fire at Hampton Court
A terrible fire destroys much of the King's State Appartments, third floor and roof of the South Front of Hampton Court

1992 State Apartments reopened at Hampton Court
After years of restoration and re-interpretation the King's State Apartments at Hampton Court reopen in July 1992

1995 Privy Garden opened at Hampton Court
The restored Privy Garden at Hampton Court is opened following extensive archaeological excavations and meticulous investigation beneath the hugely overgrown predecessor garden, matching in with the newly restored South Front after the fire

1998 Garrick's Temple is opened to the public
Garrick's Temple is restored and opens to the public and houses an exhibition on David Garrick's life

1999 The garden if Garrick's Temple is restored
The lawn and gardens surrounding Garrick's Temple are re-landscaped and replanted to replicate something of its appearance in Garrick's day

2000 Kingston Bridge widened again
Kingston Bridge is again widened to include two bicycle lanes, a bus lane and wider pavements

2004 Single strontium atom measures time
The National Physical Laboratory develops a new system of measuring time by bombarding a single strontium atom, frozen to -273C, with tiny packages of light

2008   October 26 Fire guts Garrick's Villa
A huge fire at Garrick's Villa does enormous damage to building and several flats are gutted