Revision history for LondonTimeline


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Edited on 2016-06-30 19:40:16 by ConradWong
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1839-1842- First Opium War between Britain and China
1840- Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield
... Princess Victoria is born and granted the title Princess Royal
... New Zealand becomes a British colony through the Treaty of Waitangi, no longer part of South New Wales
1841- Birth of Prince Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, heir apparent
1842- Treaty of Nanking
1843- Birth of Princess Alice
1844- Birth of Prince Alfred
1845-1847- Parliament authorizes 8000 miles of railway lines; railway companies needed charters (200k pounds or US$1 million) but once operational, little government regulation
1846- Birth of Princess Helena
1846, 1847- ether used by American dentist, William Morton; chloroform used by James Young Simpson
... Chartist movement peaks, leaders move to trade unions and cooperative societies
... Public Health Acts for sanitation
... Birth of Princess Louise
1849- Karl Marx moves to London at the age of 41
1850- Birth of Prince Arthur
1853- Birth of Prince Leopold
... The Whigs became the Liberals, opposing the Conservatives in the House of Commons.
... Birth of Prince Beatrice
1858 - Joseph Bazalgette designs sewage system, then the Thames Embankment which housed sewers, water pipes, and the London Underground
... Victoria and Albert's first grandchild, Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, is born, who later becomes William II, German Emperor.
1861- Queen-Consort Prince Albert dies at age 42. Queen Victoria refuses to go out in public for many years, and when she did, she wore a widow's bonnet instead of the crown.
1863- Prince Albert Edward of Wales marries Princess Alexandra of Denmark at Windsor
1865- Lewiss Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is published
1867- Joseph Lister writes on antiseptics based on French biologist Louis Pasteur's germ theory (carbolic acid or "phenol")
... Karl Marx publishes the first volume of Das Kapital
... The Constitution Act is passed and British North America becomes the Dominion of Canada
1871- George Hudson, 'Railway King' of Britain, dies
1872 -- CAMPAIGN START --
... Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone
1877 - Princess Alice becomes Grand Duchess of Hesse when her husbnd succeeds as Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
... Princess Alice dies. Princess Louise's husband, Marquis of Lorne, appointed Governor-General of Canada
... First incandescent lightbulb by Joseph Wilson Swan.
1880s- gas network for lighting and heating
Notable statesmen: Lord Melbourne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, William Ewart Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury
Notable writers: Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charlotte Brontë and her sisters, Robert Louis Stevenson and William Makepeace Thackeray
Notable musical theatre: Gilbert and Sullivan
Astley's Amphitheatre (Lambeth, London) - permanent structure for ciruses and such, managed by Andrew Ducrow and William Batty, the latter of who built at 14k person arena in Kensington Gardens
"Spectacles" - paranormal events such as mesmerism, communication with the dead (mediumship or channeling), ghost conjuring carried out before a crowd and with participants
Steam railways, steam ships
"Waterloo Teeth" - real human teeth set into hand-carved pieces of ivory from hippopotamus or walrus jaws
Deletions:
1861- Queen-Consort Prince Albert dies at age 42
1867- Joseph Lister writes on antiseptics based on French biologist Louis Pasteur's germ theory


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