London

• 03-August-1553 : Queen Mary arrives in London.
• 21-September-1599 : The first performance of Shakespeare's ''Julius Caesar'' at the Globe Theatre in London, is reported by Swiss traveller Thomas Platter the Younger.
• 01-November-1604 : At Whitehall Palace in London, the William Shakespeare tragedy ''Othello'' is presented for the first time.
• 12-October-1609 : "Three Blind Mice" is published by London teenage songwriter Thomas Ravenscroft.
• 01-November-1611 : At Whitehall Palace in London, William Shakespeare's romantic comedy ''The Tempest'' is performed for the first time.
• 29-June-1613 : Fire destroys London's famed Globe Theatre.
• 04-November-1616 : Charles I (15 yearyearold second son of James I of England and Anne of Denmark) is invested as Prince of Wales at Whitehall in London, the last such investiture until 1911.
• 22-December-1616 : An Indian youth (called one of the "the first fruits of India") is baptized with the name "Peter" in London at the St. Dionis Backchurch, in a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor, the Privy Council, city aldermen, and officials of the Honourable East India Company. Peter thus becomes the first convert to the Anglican Church in India. He returns to India as a missionary, schooled in English and Latin.<ref>Rozina Visram. ''Asians in Britain: 400 Years of History''. Pluto Press. 504 pp. (ISBN(ISBN10: 0745313736)</ref>
• 13-November-1642 : First English Civil War Battle of Turnham Green: The Royalist forces withdraw in face of the Parliamentarian army and fail to take London.
• 11-December-1648 : Pride's Purge occurs in England, with elements of the New Model Army, under the leadership of Henry Ireton invading London and expelling a majority of the Long Parliament, resulting in the creation of the Rump Parliament.