1842

The year it began...Victoria had been. Queen

for 5 years and reigned for another 59 years the Victorians

were here!!!

1843

Launch of SS Great Britain

1844

Emigrants weekly rations

April 8 - 165 men, women and children emigrants embarked at Deptford on board the St Vincent, 628 tons, bound for Plymouth, Cork and Sydney Australia. The weekly allowance, given in proportion daily, to each adult during the voyage is 4½ lb of Bread, 1lb of beef, 1 lb of pork, 1lb of preserved meat, 1¾lb flour, ½ lb raisins, 6oz suet, 1 pint peas, ½ lb rice, ½ lb preserved potatoes, 1 oz tea, 1½ oz roast coffee, ¾ lb sugar, 6 oz butter, 5 gallons and 1 quart water, 1 gill pickled cabbage, ½ gill vinegar, and 2 oz salt

1845

The Maori uprising against the British

1846

Opening of Lancaster to Carlisle Railway

1847

The Ardsley Main pit disaster

1848

Paris Panorama, USA gains Texas, California etc.

1849

Irish Famine - Britain annexes The Punjab

1850

Lancaster Castle - Alfred lord Tennyson becomes poet Laureate

1851

The Crystal Palace Great Exhibition in London

1852

The riot at Stockport, Edgeley - The Transvaal, South Africa, gains right to manage it's own affairs

1853

Crimean War begins - October the Fleet report - Smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory in Britain

1854

Britain and France declare war on Russia, and send forces to the Crimea - Charge of the Light Brigade

1855

First newspaper colour supplement Christmas -

David Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls

1856

Covent Garden burns down - Florence Nightingale is working in Scutari and the Crimean war ends

1857

The Leviathan or "Great Eastern" was being built by Brunel

1858

Charles Dickens public readings - The Indian Mutiny is put down

1859

Robert Burns Centenary

1860

Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th President of the United States

1861

Fort Sumter is captured and the American Civil War begins

1862

The New Harley Pit Disaster 206 men and boys killed

1863

Gregson bestowed public baths on the people of Lancaster (Sainsbury's now!) - The Metropolitan Railway opened London's first underground line

1864

The Sheffield flood disaster

1865

Callao Harbour

End of US Civil War - President Lincoln was assasinated and succeeded by Andrew Johnson

1866

The New Hartley Colliery disaster of 1862 gets a memorial at Earsdon in the NE of England - Alfred Nobel starts making Dynamite

1867

Lighthouses and Buoys

Russia sells Alaska to the United States

1868

Captain Speedy

Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister. He resigns the same year and is succeeded by William Gladstone

1869

Suez Canal was opened by the Empress Eugénie of France

1870

Old Charles Dickens

opening of The Tower Subway under the Thames

1871

Stanley meets Livingstone in Africa

1872

Livingstone

Licensing Act 1872 establishes licenses for public houses and limits drinking hours.

1873

The British steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia killing 547.

1874

Disraeli becomes British Prime Minister

1875

Bird Show

Captain Matthew Webb is the first person to swim the English Channel

1876

The Royal Albert Hospital Asylum for idiots, Lancaster, UK

1877

The Russo Turkish War

Wimbledon Tennis championship inaugurated

1878

Cleopatra Needle on it's voyage to the UK

Electric street lighting was introduced into London

1879

Chief of the Zulus - Cetawayo

January 22/23 - British troops attacked and defeated by 20,000 Zulus at Isandhlwana

1880

The first test match between England v Australia at the Oval

1881

Boer Fighters in Transvaal war

1882

The trial of Roderick Maclean - the man who attempted to assasinate Queen Victoria

Chief Secretary of Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish was assassinated in Phoenix Park, Dublin

1883

Sketches in the Scilly Isles

The Volcano Krakatoa erupts with a big bang!

1884

Cannibalism on the High seas - The Mignonette

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The first performance of Gilbert and Sullivans The Mikado in London

1886

4th Earl Of Warwick

Gladstone forms new government and introduces new bill Home Rule for Ireland

1887

Wigan Pit Brow Women

Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story was published

1888

Sketches in Barbados

Jack the Ripper murders five women in London

1889

The Eiffel Tower was attracting 20.000 people per day to the Worlds tallest building

1890

Britain ceded Heligoland to Germany in exchange for Zanzibar

1891

Indian rising in America

Construction of the Blackwall tunnel started

1892

Wagner's "Siegfried," at the Royal Italian Opera. Covent Garden

Death of Albert Victor The Duke of Clarence aged 27 -

Anarchist bombs in paris

1893

Manchester ship canal was completed

Irish Home Rule Bill passed by Commons

(later rejected by the Lords)-

1894

China attacked by Japan

1895

Jameson raid into Transvaal, South Africa -

1896

Rontgen discovered X-Rays

Earthquake in Japan kills 25,000

1897

Queen Victorias' Diamond Jubilee

60 years on the throne

1900

First flight by Count Zeppelin's airship

1905

The Russian battleship Potemkin was seized by crew members at Odessa

1910

First Hollywood film released; Griffith's In Old California

1913

Miss Emily Davison died after she threw herself under the Kings horse at the Derby

1920

RHA armistice day

Prohibition introduced in the USA (the eighteenth amendment)

1922

Treasures of Tutankhamun's tomb first revealed by Howard Carter (he was backed by the Earl of Carnarvon)

1927

All Churches were losing congregations, divorces were rising dramatically and birth control was being practised on an increasing scale

1930

Amy Johnson completed her solo flight from England to Australia

1931

November 4th - Gandhi received by King George V on a visit to Britain

1932

Sydney Harbour Bridge opened - the worlds largest single-arch span

1933

Sir Malcolm Campbell passing the timing tower at 270 mph. Breaking the land speed record at Daytona

1934

The Queen Mary launched at Clydebank

1935

The agricutural heart of the USA is paralysed by dust storms

1940

The start of food rationing in the UK and the Thames froze over

1941

1942

Illustrated london News Centenary year

1944

"D Day"

6th June

1947

Brought 14 foot snowdrifts and icebergs off the Norfolk coast. The sea froze at Margate.

1950

The Korean War began

1955

Ruth Ellis, aged 28, became the last woman to be hanged in Britain after murdering her lover David Blakely

1960

Senator John Edward Kennedy won the US Presidential election

1970

Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin both died from drug overdoses, aged 27

1974

US President Nixon resigns in face of impeacment threat over Watergate, Gerald Ford succeeds him

1980

John Lennon was murdered outside his apartment in New York

1990

From O'Brien to Haut-Brion he history of one of the world's greatest clarets

1991

article by Anthony Holden about Princess Diana and Charles

2000