TIME PERIOD IMPORTANCE

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1819—Victoria is born.
1826—First photograph taken by Joseph Nicophore Niepce.
1829—Catholic Emancipation, ends most restrictions on Catholic civil rights, property ownership, & public service.
1832—Great Reform Act.
1834—Slavery banned in British colonies.
1837–67—Isambard Kingdom Brunel builds London to Bristol railway for the Great Western Railway.
1837—Victoria succeeds uncle, William IV, at age 18. *
Dickens’s Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist.
1837–67—Construction of neo-Gothic Houses of Parliament.
1838—Dickens’s Nicholas Nickleby.
1840—Victoria marries first cousin Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, will have nine children.
Penny postage insituted.
Dickens’s Old Curiosity Shop.
1842—Founding of Mudie’s Library by Charles Mudie.
1843—Carlyle’s Past and Present.
Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
First volume of Ruskin’s Modern Painters.
1844—Irish potato famine begins.
1845—Brunel builds the S. S. Great Britain, the first propeller-driven steamship.
1846—Repeal of Corn Laws, beginning era of free trade.
Dickens’s Dombey & Son.
1847—Ten Hours Act restricts working hours of children in factories.
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
1848—Founding of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto.
1849—Dickens’s David Copperfield.
1850—First British Public Library Act, permitting the establishment of public libraries.
Tennyson named Poet Laureate.
Dickens’s Household Words started.
1851—First telegraph cable laid across the English Channel.
Invention of instantaneous photography by William Fox Talbot.
First cigarettes sold in Britain.
Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.
Half of population of Great Britain lives in cities.
London population grows from 1.1 million in 1801 to 2.7 million; reaches 6.6 million in 1901.
Dickens’s Bleak House.
1852—Opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Last duel fought in England at Priest Hill, Surrey (duels had been outlawed in 1840s).
1853—Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls.
1853–56—Crimean War.
1854—Florence Nightingale goes to Crimea and organizes nursing during the war.
Cigarettes introduced into Britain.
Dickens’s Hard Times .
1855—Balmoral Castle completed.
Newspaper stamp tax abolished.
Dickens’s Little Dorrit .
1856—Henry Bessemer invents blast furnace, permitting mass production of steel.
1857—Founding of National Portrait Gallery.
First telegraph cable laid across the Atlantic.
Matrimonial Causes Act permits divorce for adultery (but women could not petition until 1923).
Suppression of Indian mutiny against British rule in India.
1858—Government of India transferred to the Crown.
Big Ben bell cast (April 10).
John Speke discovers Lake Victoria.
Launching of Brunel ’ s Great Eastern, largest ship yet built.
1859—Big Ben enters service (May 31).
First women admitted to Royal Academy schools.
Darwin’s Origin of the Species.
Dickens’s Tale of Two Cities.

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so now that you've read the timeline of events happening in england during and around the victorian era, let's clear up a few things!

queen victoria and the royal family are not applicable for RP, it's just too complicated. godmod them if you'd like (if it's appropriate). this site is for fictional people to fit into the historical time period. it's basically like gossip girl, but like a long time ago hahahaha.

anyways. what the victorian era means, basically is this: