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| 1 | 1837 | - 20 Jun 1837—22 Jan 1901: Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and died in 1901. She reigned as sovereign for 64 years from 1837 to 1901.
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| 2 | 1845 | - 1845—1852: Great Famine
The Great Famine, also known as the Great Hunger, the Famine and the Irish Potato Famine, was a period of mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1852. It constituted a major historical social crisis and had a significant impact on Irish society and history. The most severely affected areas were in the western and southern parts of Ireland. Between 1845 and 1855, at least 2.1 million people left Ireland, making it one of the greatest exoduses from a single island in history.
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| 3 | 1851 | - 30 Mar 1851: 1851 Census
The 1851 census was taken.
- 1 May 1851—15 Oct 1851: Great Exhibition
Prince Albert's Great Exhibition took place in London.
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| 4 | 1854 | - 1854—1856: Crimean War
Crimean War was fought by an alliance of Britain, France, Turkey and Sardinia against Russian expansion into the Danube region (modern day Romania).
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| 5 | 1858 | - Jul 1858—Aug 1858: Great Stink
Soaring summer temperatures created a putrid stink in London causing disease and making life in the city intolerable.
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| 6 | 1861 | - 7 Apr 1861: 1861 Census
The 1861 census was taken.
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| 7 | 1863 | - 1863: Metropolitan Line
The world’s first underground railway, the Metropolitan Railway, opened between Paddington and Farringdon.
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| 8 | 1868 | - 1868: Penal Transportation ends
Penal transportation to Australia officially ended in 1868. The last convict ship, the Hougoumont, departed from Britain and docked in Fremantle, Western Australia, on January 9th 1868, concluding a system that had sent approximately 165,000 convicts since 1788.
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| 9 | 1871 | - 2 Apr 1871: 1871 Census
The 1871 census was taken.
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| 10 | 1876 | - 1876: Telephone
The Scottish-born American scientist Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.
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| 11 | 1881 | - 3 Apr 1881: 1881 Census
The 1881 census was taken.
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| 12 | 1884 | - 1884: GMT
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), the world’s time standard, is internationally adopted at the International Meridian Conference.
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| 13 | 1891 | - 5 Apr 1891: 1891 Census
The 1891 census was taken.
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| 14 | 1899 | - 11 Oct 1899—31 May 1902: Boer War
The Boer War was fought by Britain and her Empire against the descendants of the Dutch settlers (Boers) in the Transvaal region of South Africa. The war highlighted the limitations of 19th century military methods, employing for the first time modern automatic weapons and high explosives to decimate the enemy.
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| 15 | 1901 | - 22 Jan 1901—6 May 1910: King Edward VII
King Edward VII was born in 1841 and died in 1910. He reigned as sovereign for nine years from 1901 to 1910.
- 31 Mar 1901: 1901 Census
The 1901 census was taken.
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| 16 | 1910 | - 6 May 1910—20 Jan 1936: King George V
King George V was born in 1865 and died in 1936. He reigned as sovereign for 26 years from 1910 to 1936.
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| 17 | 1911 | - 2 Apr 1911: 1911 Census
The 1911 census was recorded.
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| 18 | 1912 | - 1912: Titanic
Just 4 days into her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York, the British passenger liner RMS Titanic sinks after colliding with an iceberg. More than 1,500 people lose their lives in the sinking ship or freeze to death in the icy Atlantic waters.
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| 19 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: WW1
World War 1, the ‘War to End All Wars’. By the time the Great War ended in 1918, sixteen million people had died. In Britain, barely a family was left untouched by this cataclysmic conflict.
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| 20 | 1916 | - 9 Jun 1916—10 Nov 1916: Battle of the Somme
The 1916 Somme offensive was one of the largest and bloodiest battles of the First World War (1914-18). The opening day of the attack, 1 July 1916, saw the British Army sustain 57,000 casualties, the bloodiest day in its history. The campaign finally ended in mid-November after an agonising five-month struggle that failed to secure a breakthrough. Over 150,000 British soldiers are buried on the Somme.
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| 21 | 1918 | - 1918: Education Act
The Fisher Education Act made education compulsory up until 14 years old.
- Feb 1918—Apr 1920: Spanish Flu
The 1918 influenza pandemic (often called the Spanish flu) killed an estimated 50 to 100 million people worldwide, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in recorded history. This devastated global populations, with an estimated one-third of the world's population becoming infected.
- 6 Feb 1918: Votes for Women
Women won the right to vote as a result of the Representation of the People Act 1918.
- 11 Nov 1918: Armistice Day
The armistice was signed at 5:45am in France between the Allies of World War 1 and Germany for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front of WW1.
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| 22 | 1919 | - 1919—1921: Irish War of Independence
The Irish War of Independence, also known as the Anglo-Irish War, was fought in Ireland from 1919 to 1921. It followed the Easter Rising of April 1916.
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| 23 | 1921 | - 1921: Irish Free State
Irish Partition: formation of the Irish Free State
- 19 Jun 1921: 1921 Census
The 1921 census was taken.
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1847 - 1922 (75 years)
