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Queen Victoria takes throne.
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Charles Dickens published The Pickwick Papers and gained instant notariety.
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Charles Dickens published Oliver Twist.
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Brunel built the "Great Western, a paddle steamer. Made the Bristol/New York crossing in under 15 days.
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Queen Victorian married her cousin Prince Albert.
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The Penny Post went into effect.
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Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol. Sold out completely in 6 days.
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The potato famine began in Ireland.
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Brunel built the S. S. Great Britain, the first propeller driven steamship.
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Charles Dickens published David Copperfield.
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The Great Exhibition of 1851 was held at the Crystal Palace which was especially built to house this exhibition. Six million tickets sold.
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Crimean war breaks out.
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Florence Nightgale goes to Crimea to organize the nursing during the war.
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Crimean war ends.
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Charles Dickens published A Tale of Two Cities which was based on the French Revolution of 1789.
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Brunel dies.
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Charles Darwin published the controversial "Origin of the Species"
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Florence Nightgale published the first nursing textbooks.
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Charles Dickens published Great Expectations, considered to be his best novel.
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Prince Albert died from Typhoid fever at the age of 42.
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Disraeli introduces a law giving voting rights to taxpayers.
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Disraeli became Prime Minister, at post only a few months.
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Last shipment of criminals from England to Australia.
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Charles Dickens dies.
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Disraeli became Prime Minister for second time and governs until 1880.
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Disraeli purchases Suez Canal shares gaining the controlling interest for Britain.
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Disraeli gives the title "Empress of India" to Queen Victoria.
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The telephone, the invention of Alexander Graham Bell, became available Thomas Edison invented the phonograph. First recording and playback was "Mary had a little lamb".
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The electric light bulb was invented by American Thomas Edison.
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Disraeli died.
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First automobile built by Karl Benz.
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Jack the Ripper terrorized the East End of London.
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New Zealand became first country to give women the right to vote.
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Queen Victoria died.
