London Zoo opens
1828 · Event
The Zoological Society's gardens in Regent's Park open to Fellows; the Tower menagerie's animals follow, and the public is admitted from 1847.
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- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Acts of Union 1707 (1707)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
Around 1828
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)