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| 1855 April |
| | | Calling themselves Mr and Mrs Lewes, Marian and George move into lodgings at 7 Clarence Row in East Sheen | |
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| 1855 October 3 |
| | | Marian Evans (George Eliot) and G.H. Lewes move into lodgings at 8 Parkshot in Richmond, with Mrs Croft as their landlady | |
|  | Nos 5 and 6 Parkshot, Richmond BG
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| 1856 |
| | | The Kneller Hall Training School closes. | |
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| 1857 |
| | | The old Cromwell House is demolished and a new one, designed by Robert Philip Pope, is completed by June 1858 | |
|  | Old Cromwell House, Mortlake
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| 1857 |
| | | Kneller Hall is bought by the War Department and reopened as the Military School of Music, later the Royal Military School of music. | |
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| 1857 October |
| | | In the cramped sitting room that she shares as a study with Lewes, Marian Evans begins writing her first novel, Adam Bede | |
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| 1858 |
| | | The first block of a new building for the Public Record Office is completed in Chancery Lane, City of London, with further extensions added 1868-1899 | |
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| 1859 February |
| | | Marian Evans and G.H. Lewes move from Parkshot in Richmond to Holly Lodge in Wandsworth | |
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| 1859 |
| | | After a six-year campaign by Sir William Hooker, the government allocates £10,000 for a new conservatory - the Temperate House - to be built to designs by Decimus Burton. | |
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| 1860-1863 |
| | | Work starts on the Temperate House (after the contractor William Cubitt has altered Burton's designs) and the main block and the octagons are completed by 1863. The government then halts the project because of severe cost overruns. | |
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