Summary of important events during these years (dec 30, 1843 – mar 10, 1867)

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1844—Irish potato famine
1845—Brunel’s S. S. Great Britain, the first propeller-driven steamship.
1846—Repeal of Corn Laws, beginning of free trade era
1847—Ten Hours Act puts a restriction on working hours of children in factories.
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights.
Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
1848—Founding of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto
1849—Dickens’s David Copperfield.
1850—First British Public Library Act, permitting the establishment of public libraries.
Tennyson named Poet Laureate.
1851—First telegraph cable laid across the English Channel.
Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace.
Half of population of Great Britain lives in cities.
London population grows from 1.1 million in 1801 to 2.7 million; reaches 6.6 million in 1901.
1852—Opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
1853–56—Crimean War.
1854—Florence Nightingale goes to Crimea and organizes nursing during the war.
1855—Balmoral Castle completed.
Newspaper stamp tax abolished
1856—Henry Bessemer invents blast furnace which helps in mass production of steel.

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