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Victoria was born.

Slavery banned in British colonies

Brunel started building London to Bristol railway.

Victoria became queen aged 18.

Charles Dickens published Oliver Twist

Victoria married her cousin Albert .The Penny Post started.

Many railways built.

Brunel built SS Great Britain-first steamship.

Great Exhibition.

Crimean War

Florence Nightingale went to the Crimea.

Prince Albert died of typhoid fever aged 42.

American Civil War

Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published.

Last shipment of convicts from England to Australia

Suez Canal built.

Elementary Education Act- schools for all

Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell

Thomas Edison invented the phonograph

Thomas Edison invented the electric lightbulb.

First automobile invented by Karl Benz.

Jack the Ripper murders in the East End of London.

Queen Victorias Diamond jubilee(60 years as queen)

Queen Victoria died.