Artistes of Colour By facebooker_10102671536331602 1803 Britain declares war on France 1804 Napoleon proclaims himself Emperor of France 1807 Abolition of the slave Trade Act passes in Britain 1810 William Darby (Pablo Fanque) born 1812 British-American war begins 1813 Harriet Anne Jacobs born 1815 Battle of Waterloo 1820 Indian juggler Ramo Samee first performs in London 1824 Bureau of Indian Affairs established in the USA 1828 George Frederick Christopher (Herr Christoff) born 1830 Indian Removal Act passes in the USA 1831 Nat Turner's Slave rebellion 1833 American Anti-Slavery Society founded 1835 Charles Darwin sets out for the Galapagos Islands 1836 Bedouin Arab Troupe first recorded in London 1837 Queen Victoria accedes to the throne 1838 Slavery is abolished in the British colonies. Isaac Van Amburgh makes first British appearance 1842 Pablo Fanque and Joseph Hillier begin their own circuses 1851 The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace 1852 "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in book form 1853 First mention of Macommo the "Lion Hunter" in the UK 1854 Tuck Quy's Chinese troupe makes first UK appearance 1857 Indian Mutiny begins 1858 Miss La La born in Stettin 1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" 1860 Abraham Lincoln elected president of the USA 1861 American Civil War begins 1863 Emancipation Proclamation issued in the USA 1865 Lincoln assassinated 1865 Delmonico the lion tamer makes first UK appearance 1865 13th Amendment adopted in the USA, abolishing slavery in the country 1867 First Japanese Troupe appears in the UK 1867 Risley's Imperial Japanese Troupe appears in London 1870 Start of Jim Crow Laws in the southern USA 1871 Pablo Fanque and Macommo die 1875 Civil Rights Act passes in the USA 1878 Miss La La painted by Edgar Degas 1881 Herr Christoff dies 1887 Buffalo Bill's Wild West show arrives in the UK 1891 Queen Victoria dies 1895 Jim Crow Laws pass in the southern USA