• 1829: Metropolitan Police founded

• 1832: Morse invents Electric Telegraph

• 1837: Queen Victoria crowned

• 1838: National Gallery founded

• 1840: Queen Victora & Prince Albert marry

• 1841: Glynde School built

• 1842: Irish "Potato Famine" starts

• 1847: British Museum founded

• 1848: Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto

• 1851: Great Exhibition opens in Hyde Park

• 1854: Start of Crimean War

• 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species published

• 1861: American Civil War begins

• 1865: Salvation Army founded

• 1869: Suez Canal opened

• 1871: Trades Unions legalised

• 1872: Secret ballots introduced for elections

• 1873: Dr Livingstone dies

• 1876: Bell invents telephone

• 1878: Electric light bulb invented

GLYNDE

FRIENDLY SOCIETY - On Thursday, the members of this Society celebrated their anniversary at their usual house of meeting, the Trevor Arms. The dinner - towards which, as well as to the fund, the noble owner of the Glynde Estate, Lord Dacre, contributed most liberally – was served up in first-rate style by Mr Underwood. Music (vocal and instrumental), old English sports, etc, agreeable filled up the time till the hour of separation.