Victorian period
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Обновлено: 30 ноя 2018
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Created byDanny Chaves Cerdas
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The beginning
of Victorian EraAscension of
Queen Victoria
to the throneQueen Victoria marries
Prince Albert of
Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield.New Zealand becomes
a British colonyThe Irish famine begins.
(The Great Famine
or the Great Hunger)Death of around 2,000 people
a week in a cholera epidemicRestoration of the
Roman Catholic
hierarchy in England and WalesCrimean War: Britain, France,
and Turkey declare limited war on
Russia.The Indian Mutiny (revolt in northern India against
the privately owned British East India Company)Charles Darwin publishes
On the Origin of SpeciesBritish North America becomes Dominion of Canada.Lewis Carroll's
Alice's Adventures
in Wonderland
is published.First electric tram service
in the United Kingdom.Death of Queen VictoriaThe Daily Telegraph
became the first penny
newspaper in LondonAnesthetics became
common in the
medical professionIncome tax
is introduceThe Crimea War
beginsSuez Canal opensEducation is made
compulsory for
children under 10 years oldSlavery is abolished
in BritainFirst subway line in LondonElectric street lighting
in LondonEnd of Victorian EraBinsey Poplars
by Gerard Manley HopkinsDramatic Lyrics by Robert
BrowningModern Painters (vol. 1)
by John RuskinWuthering Heights
by Emily BrontëJane Eyre
by Charlotte Brontë,Mary Barton
by Elizabeth GaskellStones of Venice
by John RuskinHard Times
by Charles DickensMen and Women
by Robert BrowningAurora Leigh by
Elizabeth Barrett BrowningIdylls of the King
by Alfred Lord TennysonGreat Expectations
by Dickens.Goblin Market
by Christina RossettiDramatis Personae
by Robert BrowningKarl Marx's book Das Kapital
was published.Culture and Anarchy
by Matthew ArnoldThe Descent of Man
by Charles DarwinStudies in the History
of the Renaissance
by Walter PaterDoctor Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
by Robert Louis StevensonCrossways
by William Butler YeatsMrs. Warren's Profession
by George Bernard ShawThe Importance of Being Earnest
by Oscar Wilde.A Shropshire Lad
by A. E. HousmanLord Jim
by Joseph ConradOscar Wilde arrested and
imprisoned for homosexuality
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