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Timeline Flashcards

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1845-49

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Irish Great Potato Famine

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1847

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Ten Hours Act Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair published

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1848

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Communist Manifesto Revolutions in France, Italy, Germany Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Bothie published

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1849

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Amours de Voyage

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1850

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First British Public Library Act Tennyson named Poet Laureate

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1850s

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First post boxes

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1851

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Great Exhibition opens in May

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1852

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V&A Museum opens

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1854-56

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Crimean War

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1854

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Cholera Epidemic leads to sanitation demands

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1855

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Newspaper stamp tax abolished

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1856

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Britain defeats Russian in Crimean War Aurora Leigh published, Oliphant writes ‘The Laws Concerning Women’

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1857

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Matrimonial Causes Act permits divorce for adultery (women can’t petition until 1923)

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1858

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India under direct British control Oliphant writes ‘The Condition of Women’

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1859

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Origin of the Species published

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1860

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First public flushing toilet

17
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1861

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Albert dies

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1862

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First London trams

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1863

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London Underground opens Football Association founded The Water Babies and The Doctor’s Family published

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1865

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Bazalgette’s metropolitan drainage system completed

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1866

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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland published in its entirety

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1867

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Second Reform Act

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1868

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Last public hanging

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1869

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Suez Canal completed

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1870

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Education Act Married Women’s Property Act

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1871

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Royal Albert Hall opens Through the Looking Glass and Armgart published

27
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1872

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Voting by secret ballot introduced

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