Year	What Was Happening ?
« 1989	At St John's	In & Around Stratford	In The Church	In The World
1990	David Richards becomes Priest in Charge of St John's			HTTP & HTML created by Tim Berners-Lee. The World Wide Web is born. John Major becomes Prime Minister The Gulf War
1991
1992		Stratford City Challenge begins. This locally led programme brings key initial improvements to Stratford, including the Regional Station, the cinema, Stratford Circus and town centre improvements. Two key government-funded programmes help achieve regeneration: Stratford and Temple Mills SRB (Single Regeneration Budget), and Stratford Tomorrow's City SRB. Each programme lasts seven years and is managed by a new local body, the Stratford Development Partnership.		William Jefferson Clinton becomes President of The United States
1993
1994		London and Continental Railways (LCR) submits a competition bid that includes Stratford and a commitment to regenerate the area around a new International Station on the Rail Lands - it wins.
1995
1996				The Channel Tunnel Rail Link Act is passed by Parliament.
1997	David Richards is made Vicar of St Johns The Archdeacon of West Ham, The Ven. Michael Fox, digs the first hole for the new church extension.			Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister
1998	Church extension opened by Rt Rev Roger Sainsbury, Bishop of Barking, and Stephen Timms MP.
1999		Jubilee Line Extension to Stratford opens.		The New Millennium is celebrated worldwide, a year early.
2000				George Walker Bush becomes President of The United States
2001		The Victorian Theatre Royal, Stratford East, made famous by Joan Littlewood, is reopened after a £7 million refurbishment Work begins on Section 2 of the CTRL. Ground is broken on the Stratford Rail Lands and work begins to prepare for construction of the International Station. The Stratford City Development Partnership is formally set up		The World Trade Towers in New York City are destroyed by commercial airliners hijacked by terrorists.
2002	James Maddern becomes curate at St John's			Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people. The US and an international coalition of forces attack Afghanistan.
2003		The Stratford City Development partners submit their outline planning application - a huge document that needs a van to carry it - to the London Borough of Newham, surrounding boroughs and other planning bodies. Planning Aid for London helps local people and organisations interpret and feed back on the detail of one of the largest planning applications ever in the UK!
2004	James Maddern, St John's Curate, marries Katie Pearce.	Newham Council, The Government Office for London and the Mayor of London approve the Stratford City planning application. London wins its bid for the 2012 Olympics.		Invasion of Iraq.
2005	James Maddern leaves St Johns for a cross country mission to South Africa			Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second strongest earthquake since 1965. Terrorist explosions occur on the London Underground network and on a London Bus.
2006	Darren McIndoe becomes curate at St John's
2007		The new Channel Tunnel Rail Link route becomes operative.
2008
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