Reign of Queen Victoria - M. B. Synge |
1837. | Accession of Queen Victoria. |
Electric telegraph. | |
1838. | Lord Durham to Canada. |
Aden ceded to England. | |
1839. | The Durham Report. |
Annexation of New Zealand. | |
First Bradshaw's Railway Guide. | |
1840. | Union of Canada. |
War with Egypt. | |
Transportation abolished. | |
Invasion of Afghanistan. | |
Penny post introduced. | |
Marriage of the Queen. | |
1841. | Chinese Opium War. |
Hong Kong ceded to England. | |
Birth of the Prince of Wales. | |
1842. | First Afghan War. |
Introduction of Income Tax. | |
Chartist petition. | |
1843. | Natal—a British Colony. |
Gold Coast—a Crown Colony. | |
Annexation of Sind. | |
1845. | Failure of potato crops. |
1846. | Irish famine. |
Free Trade. | |
First public baths. | |
Labuan—a Crown Colony. | |
1848. | Chartist petition. |
Chloroform first used. | |
Queen's College open to women. | |
Revolution in France. | |
1849. | Annexation of Punjab. |
1850. | Discovery of gold in Australia. |
Australian Constitution. | |
Death of Sir Robert Peel. | |
Tennyson made Poet Laureate. | |
1851. | Great Exhibition. |
Victoria separates from New South Wales. | |
1852. | Death of Duke of Wellington. |
Free libraries started. | |
Independence of Transvaal recognized. | |
1853. | Gladstone's first Budget. |
1854. | Crimean War. |
Colonial Office organized. | |
1856. | Annexation of Oudh. |
1857. | Indian Mutiny. |
1858. | End of East India Company. |
British Columbia founded. | |
1859. | Darwin's Origin of Species. |
Queensland—separate colony. | |
1861. | Death of Prince Consort. |
Paper duties abolished. | |
Torpedo shells introduced. | |
Lagos occupied. | |
1862. | American Civil War. |
Lancashire cotton famine. | |
1863. | Marriage of the Prince of Wales. |
1864. | Ashanti War. |
1865. | Death of Lord Palmerston. |
Atlantic cable laid. | |
1867. | Reform Bill. |
Federation of Canada. | |
1867. | Straits Settlements—Crown Colony. |
Bicycles used. | |
1868. | Abyssinian Expedition. |
Basutoland Protectorate. | |
1869. | Disestablishment of the Irish Church. |
Opening of Suez Canal. | |
1870. | Elementary Education Act. |
Franco-German War. | |
Telephones and postcards used. | |
Death of Charles Dickens. | |
1871. | Recognition of Trade Unions. |
Bank Holidays begun. | |
1872. | Alabama arbitration. |
1874. | Ashanti War. |
Annexation of Fiji Islands. | |
Famine in India. | |
1875. | Purchase of Suez Canal shares. |
Prince of Wales to India. | |
1876. | Compulsory education. |
Death of David Livingstone. | |
1877. | Annexation of Transvaal. |
Queen called Empress of India. | |
1878. | Treaty of Berlin. |
Cyprus annexed. | |
1879. | Zulu War. |
1880. | Second Afghan War. |
1881. | Death of Lord Beaconsfield. |
Death of Thomas Carlyle. | |
Discovery of gold in South Africa. | |
Majuha Hill. | |
Independence of Transvaal. | |
1882. | Murder of Lord Frederick Cavendish in Ireland. |
Bombardment of Alexandria. | |
1885. | Death of Gordon at Khartum. |
Abandonment of Sudan. | |
1885. | Bechuanaland under British Protection. |
1886. | Home Rule Bill for Ireland brought in. |
Somaliland Protectorate. | |
1887. | First Colonial Conference. |
Queen's Jubilee. | |
1888. | County Councils. |
New Guinea—Crown Colony. | |
British East Africa Company. | |
1889. | Annexation of Burma. |
Death of R. Browning. | |
British South Africa Company. | |
Rhodesia occupied. | |
1891. | Free Education. |
British Central Africa Company. | |
1892. | Death of Lord Tennyson. |
1893. | Second Home Rule Bill rejected. |
Women's vote in New Zealand. | |
Matabele War. | |
1895. | Mr. Chamberlain—Colonial Secretary. |
Siege of Chitral. | |
1896. | Ashanti War. |
Jameson Raid. | |
1897. | Queen's Diamond Jubilee. |
Colonial Conference. | |
1898. | Death of Mr. Gladstone. |
Battle of Omdurman. | |
Wei-hai-Wei leased. | |
1899. | South African War. |
1900. | Siege of Pekin legations. |
Annexation of Transvaal. | |
Annexation of Orange River Colony. | |
1901. | Australian Commonwealth. |
Death of Queen Victoria. | |
Accession of Edward VII. | |