Johann Zoffany (1733-1810) is buried in St Anne's churchyard in Kew.

Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, dies and the 'Dutch house' in Kew Gardens is closed.

Kew bridge is sold to George Robinson for £22,000

By an Act of Parliament George IV encloses the western end of Kew Green up to the present Ferry Lane and closes the road across the Green.

George IV lays the foundation stone for a school on the north east side of Kew Green and gives £300 on condition that the school be called the King’s Free School. Later Queen Victoria permits the school to be called The Queen’s School.

The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber

William IV returns a small section of the Green to the inhabitants of Kew.

The King's Free School in Kew, changing its name by now according to the sex of the sovereign, becomes the Queen's Free School

The Taylor estate of East Sheen and West Hall passes to the Leyborne-Pophams of Littlecote in Wiltshire

The Public Records Act creates the Public Record Office with headquarters in existing buildings on the Rolls Estate in Chancery Lane, in the City of London

Queen Victoria gives Kew Gardens to the nation, as a botanic garden of scientific importance

Sir William Hooker, the first Director of Kew Gardens, rents Brick Farm and re-names it West Park

Richard Turner wins the government contract to build a great new glasshouse in Kew Gardens, the Palm House, with Decimus Burton acting as architectural consultant.

Under Sir William Hooker (director 1845--65) and his son Sir Joseph Hooker (director 1865--85) the botanic gardens are greatly increased in size, prestige and scientific excellence.

The Palm House, today "the world's most important surviving Victorian glass and iron structure" is completed. Although originally told to hide it among trees, Kew's director William Hooker succeeds in placing it in a prominent position, thanks to support from Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

After the establishment of the Royal Botanical Gardens, a library and herbarium is opened at Hunter’s House on north-west side of Kew Green.

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

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.

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.

After more than a century of growing citrus fruits and other plants, the Orangery is turned into a museum.

Kew Gardens station is built, as a two-storey building in the style of a domestic Victorian villa

The first train arrives at Kew Gardens Station, on a line used both by L&SWR and the North London Line

The Joint Committee of the Corporation of London and the Metropolitan Board of Works buy Kew bridge for £53,000 and on the eighth of February tolls are abolished

Georges Bizet's opera Carmen has its premiere in Paris and meets at first with a lukewarm response

Marianne North commissions her friend James Fergusson to design a gallery to be built in Kew Gardens for the pictures of flowers and plants that she has painted on extensive travels around the world.