1302
Thomas Portman MP for Taunton
1308
Thomas Portman rents
a market stall in
Taunton for 10d a year
1335
The Portman family
owns 12 properties
in Taunton
1362-1406
William Portman
MP for Taunton
eleven times
1417-1435
Walter Portman, the grandson of William, MP for Taunton in ten Parliaments
c1425
the Portman family
acquire the Tudor Tavern,
Taunton
1460
Walter’s son, John,
a lawyer at the
Middle Temple
1555
Sir William Portman becomes Lord Chief Justice of England
1557
Sir William Portman's death
1604 & 1612
deaths of Sir Hugh and Sir John Portman, the sons of Sir Henry.
1611
Sir John Portman is granted a baronetcy. His fourth son, Sir William, becomes 5th baronet in 1629.
1778
Bryanston House rebuilt by James Wyatt
1776-1780
Manchester Square
1783
Tyburn gallows moved to Newgate Prison
1797
The St Marylebone Volunteers formed
1810
Britain’s first curry house opened at 34 (now 102) George Street
c1825
Church Street &Lisson Grove area developed
1843
Orchard House is demolished
1873
Lord Portman created Viscount Portman
1884
Madame Tussauds moves to its new Marylebone Road building
c1900-1935
Many more mansion blocks added
1909
Selfridges opens
1948
The Portman Burtley Estate acquired
1950-1990
Post-war rebuilding and new development
1955, 1965 & 1976
Resettlements of the London Estate
1996
Home House becomes a private club
2003
The Tudor Tavern in Taunton acquired for the Estate once again
2011
The Estate’s new office opens at 40 Portman Square
1521
Marylebone Manors and Estates
1350
The Tudor Tavern, Fore Street,
Taunton, built c1350
1450
South aisle of St Michael’s Church, Orchard Portman, added by Walter and Christina
1550
West Coker
manor house
1708
Kip’s 1708 engravings of Orchard Portman and Bryanston
1747
Tyburn gallows 1747
1770
Lisson Green c1770
1813
Views of Portman Square and Oxford Street, 1813
1823
St Mary’s Church, Bryanston Square, 1823
1834
Shillibeer’s omnibus, London’s first bus
1834
Cumberland Street, 1834
1834
Portman Market, 1834
1839
Baker Street
Bazaar, 1839
1863
1863 Baker
Street station
1894
1894 The new Bryanston House completed
1899
1899
Marylebone
station
1894
1894 The Portman family at Montagu House
1910
Views of Baker
Street in c1910
1940
1940-41 Bomb damage: Bryanston Square & Great Cumberland Place/Seymour Street
1307
death of Edward I
1327-1377
the reign of Edward III
1338
Hundred Years’ War with France begins
1346
Battle of Crecy
1348
Black Death
1356
Battle of Poitiers
1377
Richard II becomes king
1381
Peasants’ Revolt
1413-1422
Henry V king, in succession to Henry IV
1415
Battle of Agincourt
1453
end of the Hundred Years’ War
1455
beginning of Wars of the Roses
1476
William Caxton
sets up his printing
press in London
1485
Battle of Bosworth and death of Richard III; Henry VII becomes king
1492
Columbus’s
discovery
of America
1509–1547
The reign of Henry VIII
1536
Dissolution of the Monasteries
1547-1553
The reign of Edward VI
1553-1558
The reign of Queen Mary - Philip and Mary
1558-1603
The reign of Queen Elizabeth I
1588
Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1605
Gunpowder Plot
1611
Authorised Version of the Bible
1625
death of James I; Charles I becomes king
1642
Beginning of the Civil War
1644
The Royalist army is defeated at Marston Moor and in 1645 at Naseby
1649
Execution of Charles I
1660
Restoration of Charles II; The Royal Society is founded
1665
The Plague of London
1666
The Great Fire of London
1685
Monmouth’s Rebellion is ended at the battle of Sedgemoor
1688
The Glorious Revolution – beginning of the reign of William and Mary
1700
London’s population 750,000
1714-1727
The reign of George I
1727-1760
The reign of George II
1760-1820
The reign of George III
1756-1763
Seven Years’ War
1789
French Revolution
1793
Execution of Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
1793-1815
War with France
1801
London’s population 960,000
1807
Abolition of the Slave Trade
1815
Waterloo
1832
Reform Bill passed
1837–1901
Queen Victoria’s reign
1840
The Penny Post
1851
London’s population 2.3m
1851
The Great Exhibition in Hyde Park
1854-1855
Crimean War
1876
Invention of the telephone and in 1878; electric lighting
1886
The first motor car
1888
Jack the Ripper
1901
London’s population 6.5m
1901
Death of Queen Victoria
1914-1918
First World War
1926
General strike
1936
Edward VIII’s abdication
1951
London’s population 8.2m
1951
Festival of Britain
1953
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
1963
Local Government Bill: in 1965 Marylebone becomes part of the City of Westminster
2001
London’s population 7.3m
2011
London’s population 8.2m
2012
London 2012 Olympics
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