River Thames: Timeline

1684   England England

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 has its coldest winter Winter

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 in living memory; the River Thames and the sea as far as 2 miles out from land freezes over

1829   First Oxford Oxford

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 and Cambridge Cambridge

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 boat race held on the River Thames in London London

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1845   The HMS ''Erebus'' and ''Terror'' with 134 men under John Franklin sail from the River Thames beginning a disastrous expedition to find the Northwest Passage Northwest Passage

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1878   Over 640 die when the crowded pleasure boat ''Princess Alice'' collides with the ''Bywell Castle'' in the River Thames.

1950   British submarine Submarine

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 ''Truculent'' collides with a Swedish Sweden

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 oil tanker in River Thames - 64 dead.

1989   Fifty-one people die when the Marchioness pleasure boat collides with a barge on the River Thames adjacent to Southwark Bridge.