| 1829 |
Catholic
Emancipation Act.
|
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| 1830 |
Manchester-Liverpool Railway. |
Alfred Tennyson, Poems Chiefly Lyrical |
| 1832 |
First Reform
Bill. |
Alfred Tennyson, Poems |
| 1833 |
Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire. |
Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus |
| 1834 |
New Poor
Law. |
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| 1836 |
Beginnings of Chartist
movement. |
Charles Dickens, Pickwick Papers |
| 1837 |
Victoria on the throne. |
|
| 1838 |
Regular Atlantic steamship service begins. |
|
| 1842 |
Chartist
Riots.
Copyright Act. |
Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics
Alfred Tennyson, Poems
Circulating Library |
| 1843 |
|
Wordsworth appointed Poet Laureate.
John Ruskin, Modern Painters I. |
| 1845-6 |
Potato Famine in Ireland. Corn
Laws repealed. |
Ruskin, Modern Painters II |
| 1847 |
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Emily Brontė, Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Brontė, Jane Eyre
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair |
| 1848 |
Queen's College (for women) founded in London. |
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
| 1850 |
Telegraph cable laid under English Channel. |
Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
William Wordsworth dies.
Tennyson appointed Poet Laureate |
| 1851 |
Great
Exhibition ("Crystal Palace"). |
John Ruskin, Stones of Venice |
| 1852 |
|
John Henry Newman, The Idea of a University |
| 1853-6 |
Crimean
War. |
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| 1854 |
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Charles Dickens, Hard Times |
| 1855 |
|
Robert Browning, Men and Women
Alfred Tennyson, Maud and Other Poems |
| 1857-8 |
The
Mutiny (India). |
Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown's Schooldays
Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers
William Morris, The Defence of Guenevere |
| 1858 |
First Atlantic cable laid. |
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| 1859 |
|
Tennyson, Idylls of the King
Edward Fitzgerald, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
John Stuart Mill On Liberty
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species |
| 1860 |
|
George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss |
| 1861 |
|
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations |
| 1862 |
|
Christina Rossetti, Goblin Market and Other Poems.
George Meredith. Modern Love |
| 1864 |
|
Matthew Arnold, "The Function of Criticism at the
Present Time."
John Henry Newman, Apologia pro vita sua |
| 1865 |
|
Lewis CarrolI, Alice in Wonderland |
| 1866 |
|
Algernon Charles Swinburne, Poems and Ballads |
| 1867 |
Second Reform
Bill. |
|
| 1868 |
|
Robert Browning, The Ring and the Book
|
| 1869 |
Suez Canal opened.
|
Alfred Lord Tennyson, The Holy Grail and Other Poems
John Stuart Mill, The Subjection of Women
Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy
|
| 1870 |
Forster's
Elementary Education Act. |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems |
| 1871 |
Trade unions legalized. |
|
| 1873 |
|
Walter Pater, The Renaissance |
| 1874 |
|
Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd |
| 1876 |
Victoria
named Empress of India.
Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain. |
|
| 1881 |
Cambridge Tripos exams opened to women. |
D. G. Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets |
| 1882 |
Married Women's Property Act. |
|
| 1883 |
|
Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island |
| 1884-5 |
Third Reform
Act and Redistribution Act. |
|
| 1885 |
Fall of Khartoum. |
|
| 1887 |
Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. |
|
| 1891 |
|
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes |
| 1894 |
|
Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Books |
| 1895 |
U.S. equals the U.K.'s industrial output. |
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde arrested
W. B. Yeats, Poems |
| 1897 |
Victoria's Diamond Jubilee. |
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| 1898 |
|
Thomas Hardy, Wessex Poems
George Bernard Shaw, Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant |
| 1899-1902 |
Boer war. |
|
| 1900 |
|
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
Oscar Wilde dies. |
| 1901 |
Victoria dies; Edward Prince of Wales succeeds. |
Rudyard Kipling, Kim |
| 1902 |
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Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness |
