User:Mschamberlain
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Particularly interested in the history of the constituent medical schools and hospitals of Imperial College School of Medicine:
Charing Cross Hospital / St Mary's Hospital / Hammersmith Hospital and Royal Postgraduate Medical School / Imperial College / Chelsea & Westminster Hospital
- 1719 - The Westminster Infirmary opens
- 1760 - The Westminster Infirmary renamed The Westminster Hospital
- 1818 - Dr Benjamin Golding founds West London Infirmary in Villiers Street
- 1827 - West London Infirmary becomes known as Charing Cross Hospital
- 1834 - The Westminster Hospital moves to new premises in Broad Sanctuary
- 1834 - Charing Cross Hospital moves to Agar Street
- 1841 - Westminster Medical School founded by George Guthrie
- 1854 - St Mary's Hospital, London and medical school founded in Paddington
- 1860 - The West London hospital opens
- 18? - St Mary Abbots hospital opens
- 18? - St Stephen's Hospital was founded
- 1902 - Hammersmith Hospital founded
- 1907 - Westminster Children's hospital founded as The Infants Hospital in Vincent Square
- 1907 - Imperial College founded
- 1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
- 1935 - British Postgraduate Medical School opens
- 1947 - Westminster Children's hospital amalgamates with The Westminster Hospital
- 1947 - British Postgraduate Medical School becomes part of the British Postgraduate Medical Foundation and becomes known as the Postgraduate Medical School of London
- 1950 - The Westminster Hospital building demolished
- 1973 - Charing Cross Hospital moves to Hammersmith
- 1974 - Postgraduate Medical School of London renamed Royal Postgraduate Medical School by royal charter
- 1976 - Reynolds Building completed to house Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
- 1984 - Charing Cross Hospital Medical School and rivals Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Medical School merge to form Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School
- 1988 - St Mary's Hospital Medical School merges with [[Imperial College, London]
- 1988 - Royal Postgraduate Medical School merges with the Institute of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
- 1995 - The Westminster Hospital moves to Fulham and becomes known as the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- 1997 - Charing Cross and Westminster Medical School, St Mary's Hospital Medical School, Royal Postgraduate Medical School and the ? merge with Imperial College, London to form Imperial College School of Medicine
