1832 - First Reform Bill
1836 - Dickens begins publishing The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club in 19 monthly installments
1837 - Victoria becomes queen.
1838 - Chartist Movement (voter reform)
1839-41 - Henry Fox Talbot revolutionized photography.
1840s - Religious debate at Oxford.
1845 - Disraeli’s Sybil or the Two Nations published.
1846 - Corn Law repealed; Free Trade Act.
1850 - Tennyson named Poet Laureate.
1851 - Great Exhibition - London and First World's Fair - Crystal Palace
1852 - Dicken's Bleak House was published in 20 monthly installments. [The last Wednesday of the month was "magazine day.".
1859 - Darwin's Origin of Species published.
1863 - Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Aurora Floyd published.
1867 - Second Reform Bill.
1869 - Mill’s Subjection of Women published.
1870-71 - Franco-Prussian War
1895 - H.G. Wells' Time Machine published.
1901 - Queen Victoria dies. Edward VII becomes King.
1918 - Women receive the right to vote.