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TIME LINE QUEEN VICTORIA 1837 - 1901
| 1837 | Death of William IV; accession of Queen Victoria |
| 1838 | Anti-Corn Law League established; People's Charter drafted |
| 1839 | Chartist riots |
| 1840 | Penny post instituted |
| 1840 | The Chester to Birkenhead railway opened 23rd Sept. , and the Chester and Crewe railway opened Oct 1st |
| 1841 | Tories in power: Peel ministry |
| 1843 | Several shocks of an earthquake felt at Chester and in various places in the county , and Lancashire . |
| 1844 | Bank Charter Act; Rochdale Co-operative Society founded; Royal Commission on Health of Towns |
| 1844 - 1845 | Railway mania: massive speculation and investment leads to building of 5,000 miles of track; potato famine begins in Ireland |
| 1846 | Corn Law abolished; Whigs in power |
| 1848 | Revolutions in Europe ; Public Health Act |
| 1851 | Great Exhibition |
| 1852 | Derby's first minority Conservative government |
| 1852 - 1855 | Aberdeen's coalition government |
| 1853 | Gladstone's first budget |
| 1854 | Northcote-Trevelyan civil service report |
| 1854 - 1856 | Crimean War, defending European interests in the Middle East against Russia |
| 1855 | Palmerston's first government |
| 1857 - 1858 | Second Opium War opens China to European trade |
| 1858 - 1859 | Derby's second minority Conservative government |
| 1858 | Indian Mutiny and India Act |
| 1859 | Publication of Darwin's Origin of Species |
| 1859- 1865 | Palmerston's second Liberal government |
| 1860 | Anglo-French 'Cobden' treaty and Gladstone's budget codify and extend principles of free trade |
| 1861 | Death of Albert, Prince Consort |
| 1862 | Limited-Liability Act provides vital stimulus to accumulation of capital in shares |
| 1865 | Death of Palmerston (October) |
| 1865 - 1866 | Russell's second Liberal government |
| 1866 | Russell - Gladstone moderate Reform Bill fails |
| 1866 - 1868 | Derby's third minority Conservative government |
| 1867 | Derby - Disraeli Reform Act; Dominion of Canada Act |
| 1868 | Disraeli succeeds Derby as Prime Minister (February) |
| 1868 - 1874 | Gladstone's first Liberal government |
| 1869 | Suez Canal opened; Irish Church disestablished |
| 1870 | Irish Land Act; Forster - Ripon English Elementary Education Act; Married Women's Property Act extends the rights of women in marriage |
| 1872 | Scottish Education Act |
| 1873 | Gladstone government resigns after defeat on Irish Universities Bill; Disraeli declines to take office |
| 1874 - 1880 | Disraeli's second Conservative government |
| 1875 | Disraeli buys Suez Canal shares, gaining a controlling interest for Britain |
| 1875 | Agricultural depression deepens |
| 1875 - 1876 | R. A. Cross's Conservative social reforms passed |
| 1876 | Victoria proclaimed Empress of India; massacres of Christians in Turkish Bulgaria provoke anti-Turkish campaign in Britain, led by Gladstone |
| 1877 | Confederation of British and Boer states in South Africa |
| 1878 | Congress of Berlin; Disraeli announces 'peace with honour' |
| 1879 | Trade depression; Zulu War: British defeated at Isandhlwana , win at Ulundi 1879 - 1880 Gladstone's Midlothian campaign denounces imperialism in Afghanistan and South Africa |
| 1880 - 1885 | Gladstone's second Liberal government |
| 1880 - 1881 | First Anglo-Boer War |
| 1881 | lrish Landand Coercion Acts |
| 1882 | Britain occupies Egypt; Triple Alliance between Germany. Austria, and Italy |
| 1884 - 1885 | Reform and Redistribution Acts |
| 1885 | Death of Gordon at Khartoum ; Burma annexed ; Salisbury's first (minority) Conservative government |
| 1886 | Royal Niger Company chartered; gold found in Transvaal; Gladstone's third Liberal government introduces first Home Rule Bill for lreland : Liberal Party splits |
| 1886 - 1892 | Salisbury's second (Conservative - Liberal - Unionist) government |
| 1887 | British East Africa Company chartered |
| 1888 | County Councils Act establishes representative county authorities |
| 1889 | London dock strike; British South Africa Company chartered |
| 1892 - 1894 | Gladstone's fourth (minority) Liberal government |
| 1893 | Second Home Rule Bill rejected by the Lords; Independent Labour Party founded |
| 1894 - 1895 | Rosebery's minority Liberal government |
| 1895 -1902 | Salisbury's third Unionist ministry |
| 1896 - 1898 | Sudan conquered |
| 1898 | German naval expansion begins |
| 1899 - 1902 | Second Angle - Boer War |
| 1899 | (autumn)British disasters in South Africa |
| 1900 | Khaki election won by Salisbury; formation of Labour Representation Committee; Commonwealth of Australia Act |
| 1901 | Death of Victoria accession of Edward VII |
