Timeline

Question 1

1845-49

Answer 1

Irish Great Potato Famine

Question 2

1847

Answer 2

Ten Hours Act Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre and Vanity Fair published

Question 3

1848

Answer 3

Communist Manifesto Revolutions in France, Italy, Germany Tenant of Wildfell Hall and The Bothie published

Question 4

1849

Answer 4

Amours de Voyage

Question 5

1850

Answer 5

First British Public Library Act Tennyson named Poet Laureate

Question 6

1850s

Answer 6

First post boxes

Question 7

1851

Answer 7

Great Exhibition opens in May

Question 8

1852

Answer 8

V&A Museum opens

Question 9

1854-56

Answer 9

Crimean War

Question 10

1854

Answer 10

Cholera Epidemic leads to sanitation demands

Question 11

1855

Answer 11

Newspaper stamp tax abolished

Question 12

1856

Answer 12

Britain defeats Russian in Crimean War Aurora Leigh published, Oliphant writes ‘The Laws Concerning Women’

Question 13

1857

Answer 13

Matrimonial Causes Act permits divorce for adultery (women can’t petition until 1923)

Question 14

1858

Answer 14

India under direct British control Oliphant writes ‘The Condition of Women’

Question 15

1859

Answer 15

Origin of the Species published

Question 16

1860

Answer 16

First public flushing toilet

Question 17

1861

Answer 17

Albert dies

Question 18

1862

Answer 18

First London trams

Question 19

1863

Answer 19

London Underground opens Football Association founded The Water Babies and The Doctor’s Family published

Question 20

1865

Answer 20

Bazalgette’s metropolitan drainage system completed

Question 21

1866

Answer 21

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland published in its entirety

Question 22

1867

Answer 22

Second Reform Act

Question 23

1868

Answer 23

Last public hanging

Question 24

1869

Answer 24

Suez Canal completed

Question 25

1870

Answer 25

Education Act Married Women's Property Act

Question 26

1871

Answer 26

Royal Albert Hall opens Through the Looking Glass and Armgart published

Question 27

1872

Answer 27

Voting by secret ballot introduced