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| 1848 |
| | | Metternich and his family leave Vienna, in this year of revolutions, and live in Trumpeters' House until October 1849 | |
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| 1854 |
| | | The Russian revolutionary and exile Alexander Herzen spends much of this year in St Helena Terrace before moving to Twickenham | |
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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 | |
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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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| 1859 February |
| | | Marian Evans and G.H. Lewes move from Parkshot in Richmond to Holly Lodge in Wandsworth | |
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| 1865 |
| | | The last survivor of the Richmond tontine dies, at the age of 91, ending the payment of interest and making the Richmond Bridge free of tolls | |
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| 1870 |
| | | The Star and Garter hotel is destroyed by fire, then rebuilt to a design of Charles John Phipps | |
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| 1884 |
| | | The theatre, still known affectionately in Richmond as Kean's, falls on hard times and is pulled down | |
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| 1899 |
| | | A new theatre opens on the Green in Richmond, designed by a speciallist in theatre architecture, Frank Matcham | |
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