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Victoria succeeded William lV to the throne
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Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is published
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The Irish potato famine
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Tennyson named Poet Laureate.
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First telegraph cable laid across the English Channel.
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Opening of the Victoria Albert Museum
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Irish Potato Famine
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Balmoral Castle completed
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Darwin’s Origin of the Species
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First underground railway
Metropolitan Railway in London between Paddington & Farringdon St. -
Founding of Salvation Army
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Last public execution
public hangings stopped -
Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
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Jack the Ripper
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Death of Queen Victoria