Historical place archive

Hyde Park in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Hyde Park in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

8 records6 event labels6 people1851–2005

Historical events in Hyde Park

1851

1 May 1851
Great Exhibition
Joseph Paxton · Architecture

Designs the Great Exhibition which is opened at Hyde Park, London

1 May 1851
Great Exhibition
Victoria · House of Saxe-Coburg

Opens the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace at Hyde Park, London

1857

26 June 1857
Medal
Victoria · House of Saxe-Coburg

A new military honour is awarded by Victoria to 62 servicemen in Hyde Park

1944

18 September 1944
Hyde Park Aide-Memoire
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill · Nuclear

Churchill and Roosevelt sign the Hyde Park aide-memoire pledging continued Anglo-American cooperation on atomic technology.

1996

29 June 1996
Quadrophenia Hyde Park
Roger Daltrey · Popular Music

Perform Quadrophenia at Hyde Park.

2003

15 February 2003
Demonstrations
Anthony Charles Lynton Blair · Gulf War, 2nd

At least 1 million demonstrate against the war in Iraq

2005

July 2005
Live 8
Peter Dennis Blandford Townshend · Popular Music

The Who perform at Live 8 in London.

July 2005
Live 8
Roger Daltrey · Popular Music

The Who perform at Live 8 in London.

Provenance

About these place records

These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Hyde Park. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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