page_title: Timeline of London
section_title: 11th–15th centuries
hierarchical_section_title: Timeline of London / 11th–15th centuries
caption_attribution_description: English: "Bishops-gate", a crop of a 1690 map of London with boxed illustrations of the gates of below plan of city (full map).
context_page_description: The following is a timeline of the history of London, the capital of England and the United Kingdom.
context_section_description: 1009 – August: Vikings attack London.
  1014?
  Olaf II Haraldsson of Norway perhaps attacks London and burns the wooden London Bridge in support of Æthelred.
  Claimed origin of Borough Market.
  1016 – May: Battle of Brentford: King Edmund Ironside defeats Cnut the Great, who then besieges London.
  1066
  25 December: William the Conqueror crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey.
  Tower of London established.
  1067 – City of London chartered.
  c. 1078 – Construction of the White Tower (Tower of London) begins; it is probably largely completed by 1088.
  1087 – An early fire of London destroys much of the city including St Paul's Cathedral.
  1091 – 23 October: London tornado of 1091 destroys the wooden London Bridge and severely damages the church of St Mary-le-Bow and other buildings.
  1099 – Westminster Hall built.
  1100
  5 August: Coronation of Henry I at Westminster Abbey by Maurice (bishop of London).
  15 August: Ranulf Flambard, Bishop of Durham, becomes the first person imprisoned in the Tower of London, by the new king for supposed embezzlement; on 3 February 1101 he becomes the first person to escape from the Tower.
  1106 – Southwark Priory refounded by Augustinians.
  1109 – First charter to Kingston upon Thames.
  1114 – Merton Priory established.
  1123 – St Bartholomew's Hospital, St Bartholomew-the-Great priory and Smithfield meat market established.
  1127 – A royal charter creates the Liberty of the Clink in the Borough of Southwark.
  1133 – A royal charter establishes the first annual Bartholomew Fair at Smithfield; later to become England's largest cloth fair.
  1135 – 26 May (Pentecost): The Great Fire of 1135 destroys the wooden London Bridge and seriously damages St Paul's Cathedral.
  1141 – July: The Anarchy: Matilda I of Boulogne, wife of the imprisoned King Stephen, recaptures London.
  By 1144 – Winchester Palace completed in Southwark.
  1147 – Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St Katharine by the Tower founded by Queen Matilda.
  1155 – Worshipful Company of Weavers (established by 1130) chartered.
  1163 – New wooden London Bridge built.
  1176 – Construction of the first stone-built London Bridge begins.
  1180 – Guild of Pepperers, predecessor of the Worshipful Company of Grocers and the Apothecaries, is founded.
  1185 – 10 February: Temple Church consecrated.
  1189
  3 September: Coronation of Richard I in Westminster Abbey. Rising against Jews in London.
  Henry Fitz-Ailwin de Londonestone becomes first mayor of London.
  Fair active.
  1196 – Spring: A popular uprising of the poor against the rich is led by William Fitz Osbert (who is hanged, having been smoked out of his refuge in the tower of St Mary-le-Bow).
  c. 1200 – The royal treasury is transferred to Westminster from Winchester.
  1205 – January: Exceptionally cold.
  1209 – Rebuilding of London Bridge in stone completed.
  1210 – c. November: Three "leopards" (probably lions) given to Henry III of England by Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, become the first creatures in the menagerie at the Tower of London.
  1212 – 10 July: The Great Fire of 1212 in Southwark. Thatched roofs are prohibited in the City as a consequence.
  1215 – 17 May: Rebellious barons occupy London.
  1216 – 21 May: First Barons' War: Louis, Count of Artois invades England in support of the barons, landing in Thanet. Entering London without opposition, he is proclaimed, but not crowned, King of England at St Paul's Cathedral.
  c. 1219 – First, timber, Kingston Bridge completed.
  1222 – 15 July: Rioting after London defeats Westminster in an annual wrestling contest; ring-leaders hanged or mutilated in punishment.
  1234 – 2 December: A royal decree prohibits institutes of legal education within the City.
  1236 – Many killed in floods in Woolwich.
  1237 – Office of Chamberlain of London and status of Freedom of the City of London both first recorded.
  1240 – Old St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated.
  1241 – White Friars' monastery founded.
  1245 – Savoy Palace built. In 1246, the Liberty of the Savoy is created.
  1247
  Bethlem Royal Hospital founded as the Priory of the New Order of St Mary of Bethlem.
  Romford Market chartered a
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