Timeline Flashcards
1845-49
Irish Great Potato Famine
1847
Ten Hours Act Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair published
1848
Communist Manifesto Revolutions in France, Italy, Germany Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Bothie published
1849
Amours de Voyage
1850
First British Public Library Act Tennyson named Poet Laureate
1850s
First post boxes
1851
Great Exhibition opens in May
1852
V&A Museum opens
1854-56
Crimean War
1854
Cholera Epidemic leads to sanitation demands
1855
Newspaper stamp tax abolished
1856
Britain defeats Russian in Crimean War Aurora Leigh published, Oliphant writes ‘The Laws Concerning Women’
1857
Matrimonial Causes Act permits divorce for adultery (women can’t petition until 1923)
1858
India under direct British control Oliphant writes ‘The Condition of Women’
1859
Origin of the Species published