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Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria ascends the throne at the age of 18. -
Morse Code invention
It is a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations. It was used with the telegraph. -
First Modern Railroad line
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, which opened in 1830, was the first modern railroad. -
Penny Post begins
The london Penny post was a premier postal system in which letters could be sent for one penny. -
Vaccination
Vaccination was introduced for poor people. This would be the first free medical service in Britain. -
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert married
She proposed to him. It was the first time that a white dress it´s used as a wedding gown. -
A Christmas Carol
It is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall in 1843. -
Children labour
A succession of laws on child labour, the so-called Factory Acts, were passed in the UK in the 19th century. Children younger than nine were not allowed to work, those aged 9–16 could work 12 hours per day per the Cotton Mills Act. In 1856, the law permitted child labour past age 9, for 60 hours per week, night or day. -
Post-boxes
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The Great Exhibition
It took place in Hyde Park, London.It was the first in a series of World's Fairs, exhibitions of culture and industry that became popular in the 19th century. -
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Cholera Pandemic
The epidemic in London claimed over 10,000 lives, and there were 23,000 deaths for all of Great Britain. -
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The Crimean War
Was a military conflict fought from October 1853 to February 1856[9] in which Russia lost to an alliance made up of the Ottoman Empire, France, United Kingdom and Sardinia. It was a war between Catholics and Orthodox church. -
The telephone
Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. -
Typewriter Invention
Christopher Latham Sholes invented the first typewriter. -
The Light Bulb
In November 1879, Edison filed a patent for an electric lamp with a carbon filament. -
Elementary Education
Children must attend schools until the age of 10. -
The football league
The football league is founded, becoming the world´s first professional sporting league. -
Women´s suffrage
The National Union of Women´s Suffrage was founded, campaigning for the women´s vote. -
Queen Victoria died.
Her death marked the end of the Victorian era. It stunned the nation. What followed was chaos and confusion. -
Jack the ripper commited his first murder.
Was an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888
