when was london founded

Around 50 CE Roman merchants built a town by the bridge. Star broadcaster gets huge surprise during NFL halftime. In the rebuilding, houses of stone and tile began to appear, and some streets were partially cleansed by introducing open sewers and conduits, but wooden houses remained the norm. London's outstanding geographical feature is the Thames. A colony of Danish merchants was outnumbered by Germans, who had their own trading enclave, the Hanseatic Steelyard, on the waterfront until they were expelled in 1598. Edward the Confessor (ruled 1042–66) constructed an enormous church dedicated to St. Peter (and later referred to as Westminster Abbey) as well as a royal palace. Before i went i hoped to learn why the hall was built. Police: Black man killed by L.A. deputies 'grabbed gun' On the same spot today stands Leadenhall Market, an 1881 creation of cast iron and glass. There had been lengthy discussion about the best site for the Gallery, and Trafalgar Square was eventually chosen as it was considered to be at the very centre of London. An area of some 330 acres (about 135 hectares) was enclosed. No. About 1087 a major fire destroyed many of the city’s wooden houses and St. Paul’s. One of the first acts of William I the Conqueror was to accord a charter promising the citizens of London that they should enjoy the same laws as under Edward the Confessor and that he would suffer no one to do them wrong. A little farther west a church was founded on marshy Thorney Island in 785, later to be replaced by a great abbey (the Westminster) built at the behest of the pious Anglo-Saxon king Edward the Confessor. Effigies of Gog and Magog carried at the 2007 Lord Mayors Show,