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   Date  Event(s)
1 1836 
  • First Potato famine in Ireland
  • 30 Jan 1836: Telford's Menai Straits Bridge opened - considered the world's first modern suspension bridge
  • 25 Feb 1836: Samuel Colt patented the 'revolver'
  • 6 Mar 1836: The Alamo falls to Mexican troops – death of Davy Crockett
  • Jul 1836: Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
2 1837 
  • Pitman introduces his shorthand system
  • P&O Founded
  • 20 Jun 1837: William IV dies – accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)
  • 1 Jul 1837: Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales – Registration Districts were formed covering several parishes; initially they had the same boundaries as the Poor Law boundaries set up in 1834
  • 13 Jul 1837: Queen Victoria moves into the first Buckingham Palace
  • 20 Jul 1837: Euston Railway station opens – first in London
3 1838 
  • 28 Jun 1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
4 1839 
  • First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) – Britain captures Hong Kong
  • Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle, adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel, thus creating the first true "bicycle" in the modern sense
  • Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
5 1840 
  • Population Act relating to taking of censuses in Britain
  • Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849, but these probably landed elsewhere)
  • 10 Jan 1840: Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally
6 1841 
  • Thomas Cook starts package tours
  • 10 Feb 1841: Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp
  • 6 Jun 1841: June 6: First full census in Britain in which all names were recorded (Population 18.5M)
7 1842 
  • Income Tax reintroduced in Britain
  • 30 Mar 1842: Ether used as an anaesthetic for the first time (by Dr Crawford Long in America)
  • 29 Aug 1842: Treaty of Nanking – End of First Opium War – Britain gains Hong Kong
8 1843 
  • First Christmas card in England
  • 27 May 1843: The Great Hall of Euston station opened in London
  • 19 Jul 1843: Brunel's 'Great Britain' launched
9 1844 
  • 6 Jun 1844: YMCA founded in London by Sir George Williams
10 1845 
  • Tarmac laid for first time (in Nottingham)
  • 17 Mar 1845: The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
11 1846 
  • 10 Sep 1846: The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
12 1847 
  • US Mormons make Salt Lake City their centre
  • Jan 1847: An anaesthetic used for the first time in England (James Simpson used ether to numb the pain of labour)
13 1848 
  • First commercial production of chewing gum
  • 24 Jan 1848: Gold found at Sutter's Mill, California – starts the California gold rush
  • 11 Jul 1848: Waterloo railway station in London opens
14 1849 
  • Florin (2 shilling coin) introduced as the first step to decimalisation – which finally occurred in 1971!
15 1851 
  • Gold discovered in Australia
  • 1 May 1851: Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations ("Crystal Palace" exhibition) opened in Hyde Park
16 1852 
  • Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement
  • Wells Fargo established in USA
17 1853 
  • Vaccination against smallpox made compulsory in Britain
18 1854 
  • Cigarettes introduced into Britain
  • 27 Mar 1854: Britain declares war on Russia (Crimean War)
  • 25 Oct 1854: Battle of Balaklava in Crimea (charge of the Light Brigade)
  

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