Hayes in London , XVI-XVIII centuries .
In the sixteenth century, the fate of London experienced a radical turn. Thanks to the great discoveries the port, instead of being located, as before, at the terminal point of sea routes of the great European trade, was found in the center of the new axis of world trade. The flowering of the Atlantic traffic to London offered a crucial opportunity that the "merchant adventurers" and the owners of the city explode with extreme skill learned. The business expanded in all directions: toward the new world , to the east and to the Baltics. Came the Muscovy Company (1555), the Royal Exchange (1568), The Company East India (1600) and the Virginia Company (1606), among others. The city contributed very largely to lay the foundations of the first British colonial rule. At the same time, with the dissolution of the monasteries and the secularization of its property, vast expanses of the suburbs gained great opportunities to urban development and activity of the builders. The crowd, previously constrained to the walled, quickly overflowed. Buildings, especially the private residences of the aristocracy, link, along the Strand, the City to Westminster, which, out of their isolation, became a part of the perimeter urban. Began construction of the West End (Covent Garden in 1631, followed by Leicester Square, offered the first examples of a classically inspired urban planning). On the banks of the Thames, east of the tower, lined homes, shipyards and workshops, while in the south suburbs grew Southwark, with its inns and theaters (particularly Shakespearean Globe Theatre).
The expansion continued his brilliant course at the time of the Stuarts, but the middle years of the seventeenth century is one of the most turbulent periods in the history of the city: first with the civil war (in which London took sides against King Cromwell's favor), then with the great plague of 1655 (epidemic that took the lives of at least one-seventh of the population) and, finally, especially with the big fire disaster affected the whole 1666.Esta downtown, destroyed most public buildings (the Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, 87 churches and 11,000 homes) and left homeless tens of thousands of people. but, on the immense space devastated held fast work of reconstruction activities conducted under the inspiration of Sir Christopher Wren. Disappeared
London on behalf of the London gothic and baroque classic. Population pressure favored expansion into the suburbs, to the East End, Whitechapel (the Jewish quarter), Spitalfields (refuge for French Huguenots), Shoreditchs and to the West End, nobly ordered the construction of Bloomsbury.
The eighteenth century looked upon the continuation of this movement in all directions: trade with overseas, extending hacai Hyde Park West End (Mayfair) and Regent's Park (Marylebone), construction of new bridges (Westminster, Blaclfriars) ornamentation of the beautiful classical ensembles of London "Georgian."
This was the brief summary historical Londre s during the sixteenth-eighteenth .
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