VICTORIAN TIMELINE
 

1837 William IV dies; succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
1838 Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
1839 Free Trade League founded.
1840 Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.
Penny post started.
S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.
Grammar Schools Act.
1842 Chartist Riots.
Copyright Act.
1845-6 Potato Failure in Europe; starvation in Ireland.
Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
1848 Revolutions in Europe.
Queen's College (for women) founded in London.
1849 Gold discovered in California and Australia.
1850 Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
1851 Great Exhibition ("Crystal Palace").
Population of United Kingdom at 21 million.
1853-6 Crimean War.
1855 Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
Civil Service Commissioners appointed.
1857-8 The Mutiny (India).
1858 First Atlantic cable laid.
1860 Garibaldi takes Naples; unification of Italy.
1861 Albert dies; Victoria retires into mourning.
1861-5 American Civil War.
1862 Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
1864 Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
1866 Italy defeated by Austria.
Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.
1867 Second Reform Bill (Disraeli's): enfranchises many workingmen; adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales.
South African diamond fields discovered.
Fenian rising in Ireland.
1869 Suez Canal opened.
Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
1870 Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.
Vatican Council (establishes the infallibility of the Pope).
1870-1 Franco-Prussian War.
1871 University Tests Act removes religious tests at Oxford and Cambridge.
Trade unions legalized.
Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.
Germany unified.
1873 Population of the United Kingdom at 26 million (France 36 million).
1876 Victoria named Empress of India. Edison invents the phonograph.
Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
1877 Transvaal annexed.
1879 Somerville and Lady Margaret Colleges (for women) founded at Oxford.
Zulu war.
1880 War with Transvaal.
1881 Cambridge Tripos exams opened to women.
1882 Triple Alliance (Germany, Italy, and Austria).
Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
1883 "Oom Paul" Kruger named president of the South African Republic.
Fabian Society founded. Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
1884-5 Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers; electorate tripled.
1885 Fall of Khartoum.
1886 First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
1887 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
1889 London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
1890 Parnell--O'Shea divorce case ends Parnell's influence; no Home Rule for Ireland.
1894 Dreyfus trial in France.
1895 U.S. equals the U.K.'s industrial output.
1897 Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
1898-99 Spanish-American War.
1899-1902 Boer war.
1901 Victoria dies; Edward Prince of Wales succeeds.
 

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