Midterm Dates

Question 1

1830

Answer 1

Railway in Liverpool and Manchester

Question 2

1832

Answer 2

First Reform Bill

Question 3

1833

Answer 3

Slavery Abolition Act (There was also an act in 1807, I believe, that made the slavery trade illegal.)

Question 4

1837

Answer 4

Market crash and Queen Victoria’s reign begins

Question 5

1842

Answer 5

Mines and Collieries Act

Question 6

1845

Answer 6

Potato Blight

Question 7

1846

Answer 7

Corn Laws repealed

Question 8

1848

Answer 8

End of early Victorian period; revolutions across Europe

Question 9

1870s

Answer 9

(first of the) Property Acts

Question 10

1837 literacy statistic

Answer 10

50% of adult men were literate

Question 11

1880 education statistic

Answer 11

education up to 10 years (for boys specifically) is mandatory

Question 12

1850

Answer 12

Tennyson becomes poet laureate

Question 13

1851

Answer 13

The Great Exhibition in London (featured scientific advancements and other cultural items/peoples; Prince Albert largely helped create this event)

Question 14

1853-56

Answer 14

Crimean War

Question 15

1854

Answer 15

Britain and France enter the Crimean War

Question 16

1857

Answer 16

Indian “Mutiny”/Uprising

Question 17

1859

Answer 17

Darwin’s Origin of Species published

Question 18

1868

Answer 18

Pharmacy Act

Question 19

1876

Answer 19

Queen Victoria named “Empress of India”