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Around 2500 BCE, Neolithic Britons hauled 25-ton sarsen stones about 15 miles (25 km) to Salisbury Plain and raised them into the trilithons and circle known as Stonehenge.

John Murray issues the first edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection from 50 Albemarle Street in London. The print run of 1,250 copies is taken up by the trade on the day of publication.

Arthur Eddington presents the results of the May 1919 eclipse expeditions to Principe and Sobral at a joint session of the Royal Society and the Royal Astronomical Society at Burlington House. The measured deflection of starlight matches Einstein's prediction, and the meeting accepts it.

Alan Turing submits "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" to the London Mathematical Society. It defines the abstract machine that became the model for every computer built since, and proves the Entscheidungsproblem undecidable.

Nature carries Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid, the paper in which Francis Crick and James Watson describe the double helix. It runs to two pages and settles how genetic instructions are held and passed on.

Georges Köhler and César Milstein report in Nature that fusing an antibody-producing cell with a myeloma cell yields a line that secretes a single antibody indefinitely. Monoclonal antibodies become the basis of the modern biologics industry.

Nature publishes Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, alongside open-source code and a database of predicted proteomes. Protein structure prediction stops being a bottleneck for drug discovery.

Lost in Starlight premieres on Netflix, a South Korean animated science-fiction romance following astronaut hopeful Nan-young and musician Jay as a chance meeting draws them together across very different dreams.

The Grade II-listed west London exhibition halls reopened as a mixed-use district with rooftop restaurants, offices, two hotels and the 3,800-capacity British Airways ARC music venue, which launched the following night. The GBP 1.3 billion transformation, designed by Heatherwick Studio and SPPARC, opens the 14-acre site to the public for the first time in 140 years; the 1,575-seat British Airways Theatre follows in 2027.

Ultra-portable 20-watt analog guitar amplifier head with a three-band EQ.

Flagship wireless active speakers with a bigger Uni-Q driver and sculptural design by Ross Lovegrove.

Floorstanding speaker sharing technology with the 3050c but sized for smaller rooms.

High-end streaming amplifier delivering 70 watts per channel without a CD player.

Seven-model loudspeaker range with redesigned drivers and sustainably sourced European walnut veneer.

JLR will cut around 4,000 roles, about 10% of its global workforce, over two years, mostly salaried and management jobs in the UK, as it targets £1.7 billion of savings.

London's city museum reopens on 28 November 2026 under a new name and in a new home: the derelict General Market beside Smithfield's meat halls, a Victorian market building left empty for decades and now rebuilt around its own ironwork and glazed dome. The move ends the institution's run at London Wall, where it had been hemmed in by a roundabout and reached by a walkway, and puts it at street level in a market that has traded on the site since the twelfth century.

The 44-acre former exhibition site won consent from Hammersmith & Fulham on 26 November 2025 and Kensington & Chelsea on 16 December 2025, a decade after the exhibition halls came down. Phase one of the GBP 10bn masterplan covers the first 1,300 homes, offices, a cultural venue and a 4.5-acre park, with the whole site due to be finished by 2043.

Playground Games' reboot of Fable, directed by Ralph Fulton, arrives on 23 February 2027 for PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X/S.

KEF's first outdoor speaker collection, including satellites and bollard models with Uni-Q driver arrays.

The ladies' singles final is played on Centre Court on the second Saturday of the Championships, for the Venus Rosewater Dish. The All England Club has the 2027 fortnight running 28 June to 11 July.

The oldest title in tennis is decided on Centre Court on the second Sunday. The All England Club has published its 2027 dates: the Championships run 28 June to 11 July, and the gentlemen's singles final closes them.

The only London scheme in wave one of the New Hospital Programme puts a net-zero replacement hospital on the western edge of the Uxbridge site, with 327 homes alongside it, inside a capital envelope of GBP 1-1.5bn. Laing O'Rourke signed the delivery contract on 30 July 2026; the trust's milestones run construction to 2032 with the hospital available to patients in early 2033.

The United Kingdom and Ireland co-host the European Championship across nine stadiums. Estimated date.

Time Out brings its market home to the city where the magazine started in 1968: 26,400 square feet over three floors at 10 Piccadilly, on a long-term partnership with The Crown Estate, as the flagship of the whole portfolio.

The privately financed project shifts Gatwick's standby northern runway 12 metres north so it can take departures alongside the main runway, adding room for around 100,000 more flights a year. The Court of Appeal dismissed the last legal challenge on 4 August 2026, and the work also covers terminal extensions, new airport buildings and a flyover at the South Terminal roundabout.

Britain's first new nuclear plant in a generation, intended to supply roughly 7% of UK electricity. Estimated date, repeatedly revised.

EDF has pushed the first reactor at Britain's Hinkley Point C nuclear plant back to 2030 and raised its cost estimate to roughly £35bn in 2015 prices.

Britain's second new-build nuclear station, a near-copy of Hinkley Point C intended to power six million homes. Estimated date.

Britain's second high-speed line, cut back to a single Phase 1 route after cancellations and cost overruns. Estimated date.