Victorian Era By Saba2018 1837 Victoria succeeded William lV to the throne 1843 Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is published 1844 The Irish potato famine 1850 Tennyson named Poet Laureate. 1851 First telegraph cable laid across the English Channel. 1852 Opening of the Victoria Albert Museum 1852 Irish Potato Famine 1855 Balmoral Castle completed 1859 Darwin’s Origin of the Species 1863 First underground railway Metropolitan Railway in London between Paddington & Farringdon St. 1865 Founding of Salvation Army By William Booth May 26, 1868 Last public execution public hangings stopped 1883 Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island 1888 Jack the Ripper Unsolved London murders of East End women by “Jack the Ripper.” Jan 22, 1901 Death of Queen Victoria
