Jake Sneed 1870-1890

By jasneed74

  • Charles Dickens dies

    Charles Dickens Dies

  • Lewis Carrol's "Through the Looking Glass publisned

    Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" is published

  • Trade Unions legalized by Parliment

    Trade Unions legalized by Parliment

  • Thomas Hardy's "Under the Green Tree" published

  • London Metro Police Strike

  • Napoleon III dies.

  • The first sleeping car is introduced in London

  • The Kennel Club, the world first is founded.

  • Astley Deep Pit Disaster- 56 miners killed in an accident.

  • Winston Churchhill win Nobel Prize in Literature

  • The first weather map to be published in the Times

  • Aliester Crowley famed occultist born

  • Queen Victoria granted the title "Empress of India"

  • First greyhound race to use artifical hare held

  • Scotland's worse mining accident kills 207

  • Anna Sewell's novel "Black Beauty" published

  • Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone for the Queen

  • Anna Sewell Dies

  • 640 Die in boating collison on the River Thames

  • Joeseph Swan invents Incandescent Light Bulb

  • Anglo-Zulu war begins

  • Anglo-Zulu war ends

  • Fair Lady Pit accident kills 62 coal miners

  • Risca Mining accident kills 120 coal miners

  • Seaham mining accident kill 164 coal miners

  • Naval Steam mining accident kills 101 coal miners

  • Natural History Musuem opens in London

  • First Publication of the London Evening News

  • Virginia Wolf Born

  • Assassination attempt on Queen Victoria fails.

  • Charles Darwin dies

  • Married women in Britian gain the right to own, sell and buy property

  • Karl Marx dies

  • 183 children die in Victoria Hall disaster

  • What would become the Oxford English Dictionary first published

  • Clifton Hall accident kills 178 coal miners

  • Two days of riots caused by the coldest winter in 30 years

  • Worst recorded snowstorm hits London on Christmas Day

  • Buffalo Bills Wild West Show opens in London

  • Bloody Sunday- Violent clashes between London Police and Protestors

  • Whitechapel Murders: Martha Tabram is found, but not believed to be a victim of Jack the Ripper

  • Believed to be first victim of Jack the Ripper, Mary Ann Nichols is found

  • Jack the Rippers second victim found

  • Two more victims of Jack the Ripper found

  • Jack the Ripper's last victim found

  • Rail disaster kills 80 in Northern Ireland

  • The famed Savoy Hotel opens

  • Mining accident kills 176 coal miners

  • Agatha Christie born