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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.

Great Portland Estates finishes its four-building Hanover Square scheme in Mayfair, built directly above the new Bond Street Elizabeth Line station's eastern ticket hall.

London's Bond Street station opened to Elizabeth Line services, closing out the last and most delayed piece of the Crossrail project.

Gustav Klimt's final portrait, Dame mit Fächer (Lady with a Fan), sold for $108.7 million (£85.3 million) at Sotheby's in London after a ten-minute bidding war, becoming the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction in Europe.

Vuori's first international flagship, a two-floor store of just under 4,000 sq ft at 83-85 Regent Street, opened on 31 October 2024 in the former Fabletics space.

On 6 March 2025 Rio Tinto closed its US$6.7 billion purchase of Arcadium Lithium, becoming a major lithium producer; Arcadium became Rio Tinto Lithium.

Rosewood opened its flagship London hotel inside the former US Embassy on Grosvenor Square, a 144-suite, all-suite property restored by Sir David Chipperfield that keeps the building's gilded Theodore Roszak eagle sculpture on the roofline.

Aimee Lou Wood and David Jonsson announced the 2026 EE BAFTA Film Awards nominations on 27 January 2026 from BAFTA's Piccadilly headquarters, with One Battle After Another on 14, Sinners on 13 and Hamnet and Marty Supreme on 11.

On 5 February 2026 Rio Tinto said it would not bid for Glencore, ending talks on a combination that would have been the world's largest miner, after the two sides could not agree terms.

Rio Tinto's 2025 full-year results, released on 19 February 2026, showed underlying EBITDA up 9% to US$25.4 billion and an 8% rise in copper equivalent production, with a US$6.5 billion ordinary dividend.

Rio Tinto's 2026 half-year results on 29 July 2026 showed underlying EBITDA up 28% to US$14.8 billion, free cash flow up 75% to US$3.8 billion and a US$3.4 billion interim dividend.

BAFTA announces the nominations for the 80th EE BAFTA Film Awards on Tuesday 19 January 2027, two days before the Oscar nominations, with the ceremony to follow on 21 February in London.

The UK Tea Academy's international tea awards hold their 2026 awards celebration and an open winners' tasting at Fortnum & Mason in Piccadilly on 22 and 23 January 2027.

Auberge Collection's first London hotel, Cambridge House at 94 Piccadilly, is preparing for a February 2027 opening with 102 rooms, 24 of them suites, in the Grade I-listed former In & Out club. Jean-Louis Deniot designed the hotel and Major Food Group runs the restaurant.

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.