major events of the Victorian Period

By ncmw

  • event 1

    event 1
    -Queen Victoria ascends to the throne
    -Charles Dickens published The Pickwick Papers and gained instant notariety

  • event 2

    event 2
    -Charles Dickens published Oliver Twist
    -Brunel built the "Great Western, a paddle steamer. Made the Bristol/New York crossing in under 15 days.

  • event 3

    event 3
    Queen Victorian married her cousin Prince Albert
    The Penny Post went into effect

  • event 4

    Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol. Sold out completely in 6 days.

  • event 5

    The potato famine began in Ireland

  • event 6

    Brunel built the S. S. Great Britain, the first propeller driven steamship.

  • event 7

    Charles Dickens published David Copperfield.

  • event 8

    The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held at the Crystal Palace which was especially built to house this exhibition. Six million tickets sold.

  • event 9

    Crimean war breaks out

  • event 10

    Florence Nightgale goes to Crimea to organize the nursing during the war

  • event 11

    Crimean war ends

  • event 12

    Charles Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities which was based on the French Revolution of 1789 Brunel dies
    Charles Darwin published the controversial "Origin of the Species"

  • event 13

    Florence Nightgale published the first nursing textbooks
    Charles Dickens published Great Expectations, considered to be his best novel

  • event 14

    Prince Albert died from Typhoid fever at the age of 42

  • event 15

    Disraeli introduces a law giving voting rights to taxpayers.

  • event 16

    Disraeli became Prime Minister, at post only a few months
    Last shipment of criminals from England to Australia

  • event 17

    charles dickens dies

  • event 18

    Disraeli became Prime Minister for second time and governs until 1880

  • event 19

    Disraeli purchases Suez Canal shares gaining the controlling interest for Britain

  • event 20

    Disraeli gives the title "Empress of India" to Queen Victoria

  • event 21

    The telephone, the invention of Alexander Graham Bell, became available
    Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. First recording and playback was "Mary had a little lamb"

  • event 22

    The electric light bulb was invented by American Thomas Edison

  • event 23

    Disraeli died

  • event 24

    First automobile built by Karl Benz

  • event 25

    Jack the Ripper terrorized the East End of London

  • event 26

    event 26
    New Zealand became first country to give women the right to vote

  • event 27

    event 27
    Queen Victoria died