Sasha ; Priit ; Tessa
Poetry
1833- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, begins writing
long poem In Memoriam
1850- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
publishes love poems Sonnets from
the Portuguese
1868- Gerard Manley Hopkins enters
Jesuit religious order and stops writing
poetry
1875- Hopkins resumes writing poetry
Other Literature
1843- Charles Dickens publishes short novel A Christmas
Carol
1847- Charlotte Brontë publishes Jane Eyre; sister Emily
publishes Wuthering Heights
1860- Dickens publishes first magazine installment of
Great Expectations
1861- George Eliot publishes Silas Marner
1865- Lewis Carroll publishes Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland
1883- Robert Louis Stevenson publishes adventure novel
Treasure Island
1887- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes A Study
in Scarlet, introducing detective Sherlock Holmes
1891- Thomas Hardy publishes Tess of the
D’Urbervilles; Oscar Wilde’s novel, A Picture of
Dorian Gray, shocks Victorian England with its
theme of corruption of wealth
1895- H.G. Wells publishes landmark science fiction
novel The Time Machine
1901-Kipling publishes novel Kim, detailing life in India





1833- Factory Act bans factory work for
children under nine; slavery abolished in
British Empire.
1837- William IV dies and is succeeded by 18
yr old niece Victoria, ushering in Britain’s age
of greatest prosperity.
1842- Opium War with china settled, with
Britain claiming Hong Kong.
1845- Irish potato famine begins, killing more
than a million people. (to 1851)
1848- University of London grants admission
to women students.
Opium War-1842
Crimean War; in which Britain, Turkey, France, and
Austria fight Russia.
1859- Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
1860- Florence Nightingale founds school for nurses.
1861- Prince Albert Dies.
1867- Reform Bill doubles number of voters by including
working-class men.
1870- Local governments establish public schools; Married
Women’s Act gives women economical rights.
Prince Albert
Political
•1848 - Nationalist
uprisings in EU,
Marx/Engels publish
Communist Manifesto
• 1884 - Berlin Conference
to Divide Africa between
EU nations
Social/Economic
advances
•1844 - First Long
Distance Telegraph
(Sam Morse)
•1869 - Suez Canal
opens
•1874 - Graham Bell
invents Telephone
•1879 - Edison's
practical light bulb
•1896 - First Olympic
Games since old Greek
city-states 2k years ago
Independence/Rights
movements
•Taiping Rebellion in China
in 1850-1864 to overthrow
Qing Dynasty
•1861 - Civil War in the
United States – Alexander II
frees serfs in Russia
•1876 - Independent Korea
•1898 - Spanish – American
War from American
interventions in Spanish
Philippines and Cuban
Independence