• 1807: Slave trade abolished | • 1815: End of Napoleonic Wars | • 1825: 1st railway opens (Stockton - Darlington) | • 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 | • 1881: Pasteur invents innoculation | • 1884: Speaker Brand retires | • 1884: Fabian Society founded |
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