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1832
First Reform Bill
1836, 1845-46
1837
Victoria Becomes queen
1838
Chartist Movement [voter reform]
1839-1841
Henry Fox Talbot revolutionized photography
1840s
Religious debate at Oxford
1845
Disraeli’s Sybil or the Two Nations published
1846
Corn Law repealed; Free Trade Act
1850
Tennyson named Poet Laureate
1851
Great Exhibition - London
First World's Fair - Crystal Palace
1852
Dicken's Bleak House is published.
20 monthly installments
1859
Darwin's Origin of Species published
1863
Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd published
1867
Second Reform Bill
1869
Mill’s Subjection of Women published
1870-71
Franco-Prussian War
1895
H.G. Wells’ Time Machine published
1901
Queen Victoria dies.
Edward VII becomes king
1918
Women's right to vote
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