20 June 1837
Victoria becomes queen

July 1837
General election

8 May 1838
The People's Charter

31 July 1838
Poor Law extended to Ireland

1 October 1838
1st Afghan War

7 May 1839
Bedchamber Crisis

1 July 1839
The Eastern Question

23 August 1839
Opium War

4 November 1839
Newport Rising

10 February 1840
Victoria marries Albert

22 November 1840
Birth of Princess Vicky

30 August 1841
General election

9 November 1841
Prince of Wales is born

29 April 1842
Peel's Free Trade budget

July 1842
Chadwick's Sanitary Conditions report

10 August 1842
Mines and Collieries Act

14 August 1842
The plug strikes

7 October 1843
Clontarf meeting

15 June 1844
Factory Act

19 July 1844
Bank Charter Act and Companies Act

30 June 1845
Maynooth Grant

September 1845
Irish famine

May-June 1846
Repeal of the Corn Laws and Peel's resignation

July 1847
General election

1847
Poor Law Act

15 January 1848
Don Pacifico affair

10 April 1848
Chartist rally in Kennington

July 1848
Public Health Act

June 1850
Irish Tenant League

1 May 1851
Great Exhibition

19 December 1851
Palmerston resigns over Louis Napoleon

July 1852
General election

1853
Temperance movement

31 March 1854
Crimean War

1 February 1855
Government falls because of Crimean War

8 October 1856
Arrow affair starts 2nd Chinese War

April 1857
General election

10 May 1857
Indian Mutiny

14 January 1858
Orsini bomb

17 March 1858
Irish Republican Brotherhood

April–June 1859
General election and the founding of the Liberal Party

1859
Theory of evolution

24 June 1859
Italian unification

23 January 1860
Cobden's treaty with the French

14 December 1861
Prince Albert dies

29 July 1862
The Alabama affair

July 1865
General election

13 February 1867
Fenians raid Chester Castle

15 August 1867
Reform Act

25 May 1868
Trades Union Congress

2 December 1868
General election

26 July 1869
Irish Church Disestablishment Act

17 November 1869
Suez Canal

19 May 1870
Home Rule Party

1 August 1870
Land Act

9 August 1870
Married Women's Property Act

14 August 1870
Elementary Education Act

June 1871
University Test Act

29 June 1871
Trade Union Act

18 July 1872
Ballot Act

31 July 1872
Licensing Act

1872
Mines Act

1873
Great Depression

11 March 1873
Irish University Bill

31 March 1873
Supreme Court of Judicature Act

April 1873
Ashanti Wars start

17 February 1874
General election

7 August 1874
Public Worship Regulation Act

30 August 1874
Factory Act

31 July 1875
Public Health Act

13 August 1875
Artisans' Dwellings Act

1875
Agricultural depression

9-16 March 1876
2nd Near East Crisis

1878
Salvation Army formed

16 October 1878
2nd Afghan War

11 December 1878
Zulu War

21 October 1879
Irish Land War

24 November 1879
Midlothian campaign

18 April 1880
General election

3 May 1880
Bradlaugh affair

17 May 1880
Parnell leads Home Rule Party

28 January 1881
1st Boer War

19 April 1881
Disraeli dies

16 August 1881
Land Act

6 May 1882
Phoenix Park murders

20 July 1882
Britain invades Egypt

21 February 1884
Fall of Khartoum

15 November 1884
Scramble for Africa

December 1884
Reform Act

1885
Working Class Dwellings Act

14 August 1885
Irish Land Purchase Act

October 1885
Chamberlain's Radical Programme

23 November 1885
General election

8 June 1886
1st Home Rule Bill

24 July 1886
General election

12 February 1887
Mediterranean agreements

28 March 1887
Irish Crimes Act

21 June 1887
Golden Jubilee

9 August 1888
Local Government Act

14 August 1889
Great London Dock Strike

1890
Housing of the Working Classes Act

12 December 1890
Parnell resigns

2 June 1891
Royal Baccarat Scandal

5 August 1891
Congested Districts Board

July 1892
General election

13 January 1893
Independent Labour Party founded

9 September 1893
2nd Home Rule Bill

July 1895
General election

22 June 1897
Diamond Jubilee

29 July 1897
Workmen's Compensation Act

19 September 1898
Fashoda incident

9 October 1899
2nd Boer War

18 June 1900
Boxer Rebellion

16 October 1900
General election

22 January 1901
Queen Victoria dies

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