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90 matches to Tower of London
Tower of London. 1066- Palace for William I. Used as prison and garrison at later dates. White Tower 1078.
William I. The Conqueror. c1027-87. Norman conquest of England, 1066. Defeated Harold II at Hastings. Ordered Domesday Survey 1085. Built Tower of London 1086. Imported feudal system.
Yeomen of the Guard. 1485 British Monarch’s bodyguard. Beef Eaters, Yeoman Warders of the Tower of London, 1669-.
Babel. Babylonian tower to heaven started by Noah’s sons.
Champ-de-Mars. Garden under the Eiffel Tower. Originally Gabriel’s parade ground for École Militaire.
Eiffel, Gustave. 1832-1923. French engineer, builder of Eiffel Tower.
Eiffel Tower. 1889. 320.75m high. 1652 steps. Opened for World Exhibition, Paris.
Hercules, Tower of. Roman lighthouse in Spain, still in use.
Jehovah’s Witnesses. 1879-. Christian sect believing in Christ’s imminent second coming. Founded by Russell. Publish Watchtower and Awake!. Yahweh.
Leaning Tower. 1174-1350. Pisa cathedral bell tower.
Martello Towers. 1804. Swiss designed defensive towers on English coast against Napoleon.
Richard III. 1452-85. King of England 1483-. Murdered (?) nephews in tower. Killed at Bosworth by Henry VII, ending War of Roses.
Seven Bishops. 1688. Confined to Tower for opposing Declaration of Indulgence.
Stuart, Arabella. 1575-1615. Pretender to English throne. Died in Tower.
Trollope, Anthony. 1815-82. English Realist Victorian novelist of ordinary people, religious and political life: Phineas Finn. Barchester Towers 1857. 46 novels.
Westminster Abbey. 7C Benedictine monastery. 1050-65 New Building, additions by Edward the Confessor; 1245 by Henry III. West towers 1745. Used for all British coronations since William I.
Yeats, William. 1865-1939. Irish nationalist poet/dramatist: Wild Swans 1917. Deirdre. Tower 1928. Winding Stair 1933. Modernism.
Abercrombie, Patrick. 1879-1957. British architect: Greater London town plan, 1943.
Admiralty Arch. 1910 London memorial to Q Victoria.
Alfred the Great. 849-99. Saxon King of Wessex 871-. Resisted Danes 877-79 (Edington) + 892-96. Captured London 886. First British Navy 897.
Bailey, Old. London Law Courts. Building 1907.
Baker, Benjamin. 1840-1907. English engineer: London Underground 1869. Forth Bridge 1882. Aswan Dam.
Birth Control Clinic. 1881 Amsterdam. 1921 London. 1916-23 US.
Bloody Sunday. 1887. Police kill 2 Socialists in Trafalgar Square Riot. 1905. Slaughter of petitioners to Winter Palace of Nicholas II leads to Russian Revolution. 1972. 13 killed in Londonderry riot.
Booth, Charles. 1840-1916. English social reformer. 17 volume Life and Labour of the People in London 1891-1903.