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Overview of the Victorian Age

Overview of the Victorian Age. By: Samantha Hitchcock. Before the Victorian Era: 1819: Victorian is born 1826: Joseph Nicophore Niepce takes first photograph 1832: First Reform Bill 1834: slavery banned in British colonies. 1837: Victoria becomes Queen!.

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Overview of the Victorian Age

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  1. Overview of the Victorian Age By: Samantha Hitchcock

  2. Before the Victorian Era: 1819: Victorian is born 1826: Joseph NicophoreNiepce takes first photograph 1832: First Reform Bill 1834: slavery banned in British colonies 1837: Victoria becomes Queen!

  3. 1840: Victoria marries first cousin Prince Albert of saxe-coburg

  4. 1845: Brunel built the S.S. Great Britain

  5. 1846: Repeal of Corn Laws Corn Laws: imposed heavy duties on importation of grain

  6. 1847: Ten Hours Act restricted working hours of children in factories

  7. 1853-1856: Crimean War War fought on the Crimean Peninsula between Russians and the British, French, and Ottoman Turkish. The war arose from conflict of powers in Middle East, and was settled with the Treaty of Paris which guaranteed the integrity of Ottoman Turkey and Russia to surrender Bessarabia.

  8. 1859: Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species

  9. 1861: Death of Prince Albert Typhoid Fever Age 42

  10. Reform Acts • 1867: Secondary Reform Act • Extended voting to tax-paying males of the urban working class • 1884: Third Reform Act • Extended the voting rights to agricultural workers

  11. January 22, 1901: Queen Victoria Dies (Age 82)

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