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Baker Street Elementary & Victorian ERA.org The Life and Times in Victorian London # 200 Victorian Era Timeline of Queen Victoria -- 08/21 /201 7

The Victorian Era is known for the vast developments that took place, changing the political and economic structure of England.

The following timeline will enable us to understand this remarkable period.

May 24, 1 81 9: Victoria, the daughter of Prince Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn, was born at Kensington Palace in London.

May 24, 1 837: Victoria turned 1 8. Less than a month later, on 20 June 20, 1 837, William IV died at the age of 71.

1 837: Victoria was crowned as the Queen of Britain. This was the beginning of the Victorian period. The House of Parliament was built in this year.

1 838: The first photograph taken, by Louis Daguerre in France and William Henry Fox- Talbot in Britain.

1 840: The Penny Black Stamp was issued. It was the first stamp issued in the world. Queen Victoria married her cousin, Prince Albert. The London library was started.

1 841 : The first ever railway excursion was arranged by Thomas Cook. Hypnosis was discovered. Prince Edward was born. New Zealand became a colony. The Great Western Railway from Bristol to London was completed.

1 842: Queen Victoria travels for the first time in a train. The Opium war between Britain and China ceases and the Treaty of Nanking was signed. An attempt to assassinate Queen Victoria was carried out. The Mines Act was enacted to prohibit children below ten years to work in mines.

1 843: Britain claims the former Boer republic of Natal as a British colony. Charles Dickens published A Christmas Carol. It sold out completely in 6 days.

1 844: The potato famine breaks out in Ireland. Morse telegraph was introduced. The Factories Act was enacted to restrict the working hours of children between five- ten of age to seven hours a day.

1 844-1 845: The S. S Great Britain was built by Isambard Brunel. An 8, 000 km long railway line was built across Britain.

1 846: Ether was used as an anesthetic for the first time.

1 848: The Queen s College for Women was established. Marx and Engels issued their Communist Manifesto.

1 849: Disraeli becomes the head of the Conservative Party. Bedford College for Women was founded.

1 850: The First post boxes are built. The telegraph cable- line is built to pass under the English Channel. The first Workhouses are started to help the extremely poor people by providing food and shelter in return of work.

1 851 : The Great Exhibition is sponsored by Prince Albert and is held at the Crystal Palace. The sewing machine is invented. The first free public library is opened in Winchester. London becomes the most populous city of Britain.

1 852: The first public flushing toilet opens in London.

1 853: The Crimean War begins.

1 854: The Men s Working College is started in London. Florence Nightingale joins the Crimean camp to nurse the victims. A significant out- break of cholera occurs.

1 856: The Crimean War ends. The Anglo- Chinese war begins.

1 857: The Victoria and Albert Museum is started in London. Mutiny of rebel soldiers in India, a British Colony, occurs.

1 858: The British Parliament passed the Government of India Act, ending the rule of the East India company and bringing India under British rule.

1 859 Charles Darwin publishes his book Origin of Species

1 860: The first book on nursing is published by Florence Nightingale. In the 1 860 s, the boneshaker is introduced. These are one of the first bicycles having pedals.

1 861 : Prince Albert will die of Typhoid fever.

1 863: The first underground railway will be started in London. The English Football Association will be founded.

1 864: Boys below the age of 1 0 years will be prohibited from sweeping the chimneys.

1 867: Disraeli will introduce a law enabling taxpayers to vote.

1 868: The last public hanging in England.

1 870: Schools will be established for children between the age group of five- ten years.

1 871 : Queen Victoria will open Albert Hall. The Bank Holiday Act introduced, allowing banks to close a few days a year

1 874: The ten hour Factory Act will be brought into force to limit the number of working hours to ten. Disraeli will become the Prime Minister.

1 876: Queen Victoria will be crowned as the Empress of India. Primary education will be made mandatory.

1 877: Alexander Graham Bell will invent the telephone. The world s first recording of human voices after the phonograph will be invented by Thomas Edison.

1 878: The first public electric lighting will be started on London streets.

1 880: Compulsory education for children up to the age of twelve will be implemented.

1 881 : London's Natural History Museum opened

1 883: The First Electric Railway will be introduced.

1 885: Karl Benz will build the first automobile. The Prince of Wales will open the Birmingham Museum Round Room and Industrial Gallery.

1 887: The gramophone will be invented. Britain establishes the colony of Nigeria in Africa.

1 888: Jack the Ripper will terrorize London.

1 891 : Free education will be proposed to every child between the age group of five to thirteen

1 896: The speed limit for horseless carriages in Britain was raised from 4 m. p. h. to 1 4 m. p. h.

1 901 : Queen Victoria will die and her son Edward VII will ascend the throne.

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Baker Street Elementary The Life and Times in Victorian London IS CREATED THROUGH THE INGENUITY & HARD WORK OF: JOE FAY LIESE SHERWOOD-FABRE GEORGE P. LANDOW VAIJAYANTI JOSHI RUSTY MASON & STEVE MASON WE ARE EXTREMELY THANKFUL TO LIESE, VAIJAYANTI, AND GEORGE FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF THIS PROJECT