Victorian Period

VICTORIAN PERIOD(1832 – 1900) : 

VICTORIAN PERIOD(1832 – 1900)

QUEEN VICTORIA : 

QUEEN VICTORIA

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Joseph Mallord William Turner Rain, Steam and Speed The Great Western Railway painted (1844)

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"It was a town of red brick, or of brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as matters stood it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. It was a town of machinery and tall chimneys, out of which interminable serpents of smoke trailed themselves for ever and ever, and never got uncoiled. It had a black canal in it, and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye, and vast piles of building full of windows where there was a rattling and a trembling all day long, and where the piston of the steam-engine worked monotonously up and down, like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. It contained several large streets all very like one another, and many small streets still more like one another, inhabited by people equally like one another, who all went in and out at the same hours, with the same sound upon the same pavements, to do the same work, and to whom every day was the same as yesterday and tomorrow, and every year the counterpart of the last and the next." Hard Times Charles Dickens

CHRONOLOGY : 

CHRONOLOGY 1814 Invention of the railway engine by George Stephenson 1815 Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon is finally defeated 1817 Riots in Derbyshire against low wages 1819 Victoria was born The Peterloo massacre: Goverment forces violently to put an end to a protests for worker’s rights 1824 Trade unions were recognized by British goverment 1825 First passenger-carrying railways opens

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1832 First reform act: voting right for men extended 1837 Victoria became queen 1847 Factory Act limits working day for children aged 13-18 to 10 hours 1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: The Communist Manifesto 1851 The First Worl Fair was held in the Crystal Palace, specially built in Hyde Park. 1854-6 Crimea War: The first war reported in daily newspapers. 1857-8 Indian Mutiny

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1855 Florence Nightingale introduces standards into hospitals at Crimea War 1859 Darwin: On the Origin of Species 1861 Death of Price Albert: the husband of Queen Victoria 1870 Education Act establishes education for all children aged 5-13 1879 First telephone exchange established (Marconi worked in England) 1876 Queen Victoria made Empress of India 1899-1902 Boer War, in South Africa 1901 Death of Queen Victoria

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Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)

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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to heaven, we were all going direct the other way. A Tale of Two Cities Charles Dickens