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*1819* Queen Victoria is born
*1820* Florence Nightingale is born
*1826* The first photograph was taken by Joseph Nicophore Neipce
*1829* Catholic Emancipation
*1834* Slavery banned in British colonies
*1835~1841* Brunel builds London to Bristol railway for GWR
*1837* Victoria inherits the throne following the death of her uncle, William IV *1837* Charles Dickens publishes Pickwick Papers
*1838* Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist
*1838* Brunel builds the paddle streamer the Great Western
*1840* Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert of Saxe~Coburg Gotha
*1840* The Penny post instituted
*1843* Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol
*1844* Potato famine begins in Ireland
*1845* Brunel builds the S.S. Great Britain
*1848* Karl Marx and Frederich Engels publish the "Communist Manifesto"
*1849* Charles Dickens publishes David Copperfield
*1851* Great Exhibition of 1851
*1853* Crimean War breaks out
*1854* Florence Nightingale goes to Crimea to organize nursing for the war
*1856* Crimean War ends
*1858* Brunel builds the Great Eastern steamship
*1859* Charles Dickens publishes A Tale of Two Cities
*1859* Brunel dies
*1859* Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species
*1860* Florence Nightingale publishes first ever definitive textbooks on nursing
*1860* Charles Dickens publishes Great Expectations
*1861* Prince Albert dies of Typhoid Fever
*1861~1865* American Civil War
*1865* American President Abraham Lincoln is assassinated
*1867* Disraeli introduces a law so all taxpayers can vote
*1868* Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
*1868* Last shipment of convicts from England to Australia
*1869* Suez Canal is built by Ferdinand de Lesseps
*1870* Charles Dickens dies
*1874* Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for 2nd time until 1880
*1875* Disraeli buys Suez Canal Shares
*1876* Disraeli gives the title Empress of India to Queen Victoria
*1877* Telephone is invented by Alexander Graham Bell
*1877* Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
*1879* Thomas Edison invents the electric light~bulb
*1881* Benjamin Disraeli dies
*1885* Karl Benz builds the first automobile
*1888* Jack the Ripper murders terrify the East End of London
*1893* New Zealand is the first country to give women voting rights
*1901* Queen Victoria dies