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| 1797 |
| | | The king's son, William, Duke of Clarence, becomes Keeper (or Ranger) of Bushy Park and establishes his mistress, the actress Dora Jordan, in Bushy House | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Dora gives birth in Bushy House to Mary, the first of seven children of the Duke of Clarence to be born in the house in the following nine years | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Dora Jordan is forced to leave Bushy House after being abandoned by her royal lover, the Duke of Clarence | |
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| 1823 |
| | | After the death of Eva Garrick, David Garrick's widow, in 1822 the contents of Garrick's Villa are auctioned and the Roubiliac statue from the Temple goes to the British Museum | |
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| 1828 |
| | | The new Kingston Bridge is opened by the Duchess of Clarence on 17 July 1828 and the new approach road is named Clarence Street in her honour | |
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| 1829-1830 |
| | | Old St Mary's Church is demolished but many monuments are transferred to a new Church on the same site and the vaults continue to be used under the new building | |
|  | Hampton Old Church, in a print of c.1835
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| 1831 |
| | | New St Mary's Church opens, designed by Edward Lapidge, in white brick with stone dressings in Gothic revival style and with sqare pinnacled tower at the west end | |
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| 1831 |
| | | The Church of St John's, dedicated to St John the Baptist and designed by Edward Lapidge, is completed in Hampton Wick | |
|  | St John's Hampton Wick, c.1910
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| 1834 |
| | | St John's, originally a daughter-chapel of St Mary's Hampton, is declared an independent parish and the chapel is given the status of a Church | |
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| 1838 |
| | | Queen Victoria opens Hampton Court Palace to the public | |
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