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| 1720 | Church Commissioners accept General William Steaurt's offer of a plot of land on the corner of Maddox Street and George Street for the building of a new church. |
| 1721 | General Steuart lays the Foundation stone and, after striking it with a mallet, pours out a libation of wine, with the words: "The Lord God of Heaven preserve the Church of St George." |
| 1724 | George Frederick Handel moves into Brook Street. He advises the church on its new organ and provides a unique composition to test the skills of candidates for the position of Organist. |
| 1725 | The Bishop of London consecrates the church. The Reverend Andrew Trebeck is appointed Rector and Thomas Roseingrave, Organist. The first wedding takes place on April 30. At a cost of £500, an organ with 1,514 pipes and three swells is installed. |
| 1745 | The Parish Vestry sets about raising money to send "a number of able bodied men for the Defence of His Majesty and the safety of this parish" against the Young Pretender. Before the force could be effective, the Scots are defeated and so the money raised is used to help a hospital for sick and wounded soldiers. |
| 1759 | Handel dies in Brook Street having worshipped in St George's for 34 years. Although blind, he was until his death an enthusiastic worshipper, according to Sir John Hawkins, who reports: "For the last two or three years of his life he was used to attend divine service in his own parish church of St George, Hanover Square... expressing by his looks and gesticulations the utmost fervour of devotion." |
| 1761 | John Snetzler is commissioned to build a new organ within the original case. He is paid £300 and allowed to keep the old pipes. |
| 1762 | The church's original burial ground is full and a new one is purchased in the Bayswater Road. |
| 1769 | The Duke of Kingston marries Elizabeth Chudleigh. It is later discovered that she was already married, in secret, to Augustus John Hervey, later 3rd Earl of Bristol. |
| 1774 | Dr William Dodd, a Royal Chaplain and popular preacher, offers the Lord Chancellor's wife £3,000 and an annuity of £500 if she can secure for him the living as Rector of St George's. She reports him, he loses his reputation and three years later is hanged at Tyburn for forgery. |
| 1791 | Emma, Lady Hamilton, later famous as the mistress of Nelson, marries Sir William Hamilton. Her husband is some 30 years her senior. |
| 1793 | The Duke of Sussex, son of George III, marries Lady Augusta Murray without the consent of the King. The marriage is therefore annulled. |
| 1794 | The St George's Hanover Square Volunteers is formed. Out of this company was to grow the St George's Rifle Corps, which later evolved into the 1st Volunteer Battalion of the King's Royal Rifles, headquartered at premises in Davies Street. |
| 1798 | Perhaps the most famous of all English clowns, Grimaldi, marries Maria Wells, daughter of the proprietor of Sadler's Wells. |
| 1803 | The church's original communion vessels are stolen along with £42 14s 4d of sacrament money. |
| 1805 | Complaints to the Bishop of London force the closure of the wine and liquor merchants who had leased the church's undercroft as a store. |
| 1814 | The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley marries Harriet Westbrook. |
| 1816 | 1,063 weddings, including nine on Christmas Day, are held at St George's. |
| 1826 | An Act of Parliament authorises the closing of Mill Street and Maddox Street for a half an hour before, and a quarter of an hour after, Divine Service on all Sundays, Holy Days and the Wednesdays and Fridays of Lent. |
| 1839 | Having recently embarked on his political career (he had become an MP in the same year), Benjamin Disraeli marries Mary Lewis, 12 years his senior and the recently widowed wife of his parliamentary colleague Wyndham Lewis. |
| 1840 | St George's acquires a sixteenth-century stained-glass window from the Marquess of Ely. |
| 1849 | The infamous courtesan Lola Montez marries George Heald, a wealthy young Guards Officer. She is accused of bigamy and the couple is forced to flee Britain. |
| 1854 | Gas lighting is installed throughout the church. |
| 1864 | William Hill renovates and enlarges the organ and adds a pedal board. |
| 1880 | author George Eliot (Mary Evans) marries John Cross. |
| 1886 | Theodore Roosevelt, later 26th President of the United States, marries his childhood sweetheart Edith Carow. To enable him to marry at St George's, Roosevelt resides at Brown's Hotel in Dover Street for the required period. |
| 1894 | Future Prime Minister, Herbert Asquith, marries Margot Tennant. The marriage certificate is unique in bearing the signatures of four statesmen, who were at some period Prime Ministers of England - Lord Rosebery, A.J. Balfour, W.E. Gladstone and Asquith himself. Sir Arthur Blomfield undertakes a major remodelling of the church, lowering the pews and creating a new chancel with choir stalls. The Hope-Jones Electric Organ Company of Birkenhead builds a new organ. |
| 1896 | A fire in the church destroys the original bell and the new organ. |
| 1905 | Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, marries the daughter of Lord Inchiquin, Beatrice O'Brien. |
| 1912 | The 2nd Duke of Westminster refuses to countenance the demolition of St George's as part of a plan to build a new parish church for Mayfair on the site of the Grosvenor Chapel. |
| 1914 | A suffragette leaves a bomb in the front pews of the church. The bomb explodes causing some minor damage but no loss of life. |
| 1919 | Mrs John Thynne presents a stained-glass window in memory of her late husband, who had been Churchwarden. |
| 1925 | Countess Cawdor of Essex presents the church with a silver casket for communion wafers made by the sixteenth-century Swiss silversmith Urs Graf. |
| 1926 | Sir Reginald Blomfield creates a new chapel in the north-east corner of the nave. |
| 1932 | Pioneering aviator Amy Johnson marries Jim Mollison on July 29 "in the most strict intimacy." |
| 1934 | Sir Reginald redesigns the Baptistery. |
| 1940 | Two cast-iron Pointer dogs are entrusted to the care of the church following the destruction of their previous residence outside a tailor's shop in Conduit Street by a bomb. The dogs are placed on either side of the main door to the church. (They were stolen in the 1990s, but replacements are being commissioned in time for the church's reopening after renovation.) |
| 1955 | At the age of 44, the Reverend Bill Atkins is appointed Rector. |
| 1964 | The film My Fair Lady is released. Eliza Doolittle's father, Alfred, sings: "I'm getting married in the morning." Where? At St George's Hanover Square, of course. |
| 1972 | Harrison & Harrison of Durham install a new organ within the existing case. |
| 1978 | The first "Story of Christmas Appeal" is held at St George's. The event has so far raised over £2,000,000 to aid charities for the homeless in London. |
| 2000 | Bill Atkins retires as Rector, after 45 years in the post. |
| 2005 | The Reverend Roderick Leece succeeds the Reverend John Slater as Rector. |
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