London

The benefit concert takes place in order to support the people in Ethiopia hit by a famine.

Approximately 12,000 people die as a result of the worst air pollution event in the history of the United Kingdom.

Princess Augusta and Lord Bute establish the first botanic garden at Kew.

John Evelyn’s report for King Charles II of England becomes one of the first tracts on urban air pollution.

Within four days, two-thirds of the city is destroyed and nearly one-hundred thousand people are homeless. Only nine deaths are recorded, but the real toll is likely much higher.