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1800 |
Parliamentary Union Great Britain and Ireland |
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1801 |
Richard Trevithick built the first road carriage powered by steam in Britain |
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1805 |
Battle of Trafalgar and Nelsons death |
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1807 |
Britain abolishes the slave trade |
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1815 |
Battle of Waterloo |
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1825 |
The first passengers travel by rail |
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1829 |
Robert Peel introduces the London Police Force and the Liverpool and Manchester Railway hold the Rainhill Trials to find the best locomotive. |
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1838 |
National Gallery opens |
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1840 |
The Penny Post is introduced - "The Penny Black" |
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1841 |
Hong Kong become British |
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1847 |
British Museum opens |
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1851 |
Great Exhibition |
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1854 |
Crimean War |
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1859 |
Darwin publishes the Origin of Species |
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1865 |
Lister performs the first antiseptic surgery and Charles Booth starts the Salvation Army |
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1875 |
Britain buys the Suez Canal |
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1879 |
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Selected books on Victorian Britain from Amazon
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