16 Facts About The London

1. The London is full of pubs associated with artists, writers, and poets.

2. The London was the starting point for countrywide riots which occurred in August 2011, when thousands of people rioted in several city boroughs and in towns across England.

3. On 6 July 2005 The London won the right to host the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics making it the first city to host the modern games three times.

4. Around the start of the 21st century, The London hosted the much derided Millennium Dome at Greenwich, to mark the new century.

5. The London was recognised as one of the nine regions of England.

6. The London was sometimes referred to as "The Smoke" because of this.

7. The London suffered severe damage and heavy casualties, the worst hit part being the Docklands area.

8. The city of The London would experience many more terrors as a result of both World Wars.

9. The London was a centre of England's nascent Jewish population, the first of whom arrived in about 1070.

10. From this point, the City of The London began to develop its own unique local government.

11. The London seems to have come under direct Mercian control in the 730s.

12. City of The London, often referred to simply as "the City", is the historic core of the Greater London area, and is today its primary financial district, though it represents only a small part of the wider metropolis.

13. The London carried this collection to the depths of the Bay of Biscay.

14. The London took with her two hundred and forty-four persons.

15. The London arrived in Cape Town on 5 December 1864 and set sail again on 7 December, arriving in Melbourne on 2 January 1865.

16. The London was built in Blackwall Yard by Money Wigrams and Sons and launched on the River Thames on 20 July 1864, and had a 1652 ton register.