BY: SAMANTHA HITCHCOCK

Overview of the Victorian Age

1837: Victoria becomes Queen!

Before the Victorian Era:

1819: Victorian is born

1826: Joseph Nicophore Niepce takes first photograph

1832: First Reform Bill

1834: slavery banned in British colonies

1840: Victoria marries first cousin Prince Albert of saxe-coburg

1845: Brunel built the S.S. Great Britain

CORN LAWS: IMPOSED HEAVY DUTIES ON IMPORTATION OF GRAIN

1846: Repeal of Corn Laws

1847: Ten Hours Act restricted working hours of children in

factories

1853-1856: Crimean WarWar fought on the Crimean Peninsula between Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish. The war arose from conflict of powers in Middle East, and was settled with the Treaty of Paris which guaranteed the integrity of Ottoman Turkey and Russia to surrender Bessarabia.

1859: Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species

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1861: Death of Prince Albert

Reform Acts

1867: Secondary Reform Act Extended voting to tax-

paying males of the urban working class

1884: Third Reform Act Extended the voting

rights to agricultural workers

January 22, 1901: Queen Victoria Dies (Age 82)