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The fire breaks out in the early hours of the morning, prompting a huge response from emergency services, who are unable to control the fire or prevent a serious loss of life.
The then Conservative Prime Minister, Theresa May, visits the site and orders a full investigation into the disaster, and the government promises that all families will be relocated locally.
Communities Secretary Sajid Javid is ordering an emergency fire safety review of 4,000 blocks of flats across Britain, and it will be revealed that 120 blocks of flats have combustible lining. Scotland Yard launches a criminal investigation into the Grenfell fire.
Chancellor Philip Hammond says the cladding used in the Grenfell Tower was banned in the UK.
Retired Judge Sir Martin Moore-Bick is appointed to lead the public inquiry. The first meeting of the Kensington and Chelsea council since the disaster was abandoned after the council failed in an attempt to ban media attendance.
The survivors have their first official meeting with the police and the coroner.
The investigation is formally opened.
As the final death toll is confirmed to be 71 people, it is revealed that hundreds of households still live in hotels.
In defensive testimony in the investigation, London Fire Brigade Commissioner Dany Cotton said she would not change a thing about how the brigade responded to the Grenfell disaster, drawing the ire of both survivors and the mourners.
The public inquiry report concludes that fewer people would have died if the fire department had been better prepared.
The leader of the House of Commons, Jacob Rees-Mogg, is forced to apologize after claiming that the Grenfell victims did not use “common sense” and left the burning building.
Coatings firm Grenfell Arconic reveals that it has spent £ 30 million on lawyers and advisers defending its role in the disaster.
The second phase of the Grenfell Tower investigation begins.
A project manager at the Grenfell Tower remodel admitted to “throwing away” his notebooks related to the remodel despite knowing that a public investigation and a police investigation were underway.
Stacee smith Y Grace mainwaring
