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Victoria becomes Queen of England
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Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist"
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The Victorian Age
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The People's Charter for parliamentary reform is presented and rejected
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Alfred Tennyson, "Ulysses"
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Corn Laws abolished
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Ten Hours Act restricts the working hours of women and children in factories
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Charles Dickens, "David Copperfield"
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Period: to
Crimean War
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Period: to
American Civil War
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Second Reform Act gives the vote to urban working class men
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Education Act
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Trade Union Act legalises workers' unions
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Queen Victoria became Empress of India
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Third Reform Act gives the vote to male agricultural labourers
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Robert Louis Stevenson, "The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
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Oscar Wilde, "The picture of Dorian Gray"
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Queen Victoria's Death