BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – XIII/XXII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – XIII/XXII

IMPORTANT WRITERS AND THEIR WORKS

VICTORIAN AGE

1830 Death of George IV; Greek Independence; Agitation for reform; Manchester and Liverpool Railway opens; Accession of William (IV)

1831 Unsuccessful introduction of Reform Bills; Bristol Riots

1832 Reform Act, Death of Scott

1833 Abolition of Slavery; Keble's Assize Sermon

1834 New Poor Law; Burning of Houses of Parliament; Fox Tallbot's first

Photograph

1835 Municipal Reform Act

1837 Death of William IV; Accession of Victoria

1838 London-Birmingham Railway; People's Charter published

1839 Penny Postage Act

1840 Opium War; New House of Parliament begun: First presentation of the

People's Charter to Parliament

1842 Chartist riots; Second presentation of the People's Charter to parliament;

Copyright Act

1843 Theatre Regulations Bill (monopoly removed from Covent Garden and Druy Lane theatres)

1844 Royal Commission on Health in towns

1845 Failure of Irish Potato Crop

1846 Famine in Ireland; Repeal of Corn Laws

1847 Ten Hours Factory Act

1848 Chartist Demonstration in London (third Presentation of Charter) Public Health Act; Foundation of Pre-Raphaelite Brother-hood; Revolutions in  France, Germany, Poland, Hungary and Italy; Second Republic in France; Roman Republic

1850 'Papal Aggression' (following re-establishment of Roman Catholic hierarchy  in England)

1851 Great Exhibition; Louis Napoleon Ill's Coup d'etat

1852 Death of the Duke of Wellington

1854 Crimean War Breaks Out, Battles of Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclave;

Preston cotton spinners' strike; Working man's college opened

1855 Fall of Sebastopol Metropolitan Board of Works; Repeal of Stamp Duty on  newspapers

1856 Peace of Paris (Ending Crimean War)

1857 Indian Sepoy Mutiny

1858 Peace in India; India transferred to British Crown

1860 Garibaldi's campaign in Sicily and Naples

1861 Victor Emmanuel King of United Italy; Outbreak of American Civil War;  Death of Prince Consort

1863. Lancashire 'Cotton famine'

1864 Geneva Convention

1865 Suppression of Jamaican Rebellion by Governor Eyre; Assassination of

Lincoln

1866 Austro Prussian War

1867 Representation of People Act (Second Reform Act)

1870 Married Woman's Property Act; Papal States in corporated into Kingdom of

Italy; Forster's Education Act; Death of Dickens

1871 Paris Commune (March-May)

1875 Agricultural depression

1877 Victoria, Empress of India

1878 Congress of Berlin

1880 Gladstone, Prime Minister

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