Victorian Timeline to Learn for Exam

Timeline for the Victorian Era

1837 Victoria crowned at the age of 19
1838 The first photograph taken by William Henry Fox –Talbot in Britain
1839 First pedal bicycle invented by Kirkpatrick Macmillan
1840 The first postage stamps (The Penny Black)
1841 First railway excursion organised by Thomas Cook
1843 First Christmas Card designed by John Calcott Horsely
1844 Sending of first Morse Code message
1846 Elias Howe invents the sewing machine
1850 First use of petrol
1851 Invention of ice cream by Jacob Fussell
1851 The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace, London
1852 First public flushing toilet opens in London
1854 Florence Nightingale visits the Crimea for the first time
1856 Louis Pasteur finds way of making food safer to eat
1863 The world's first underground railway built in London (The Tube)
1864 Bys under the age of 10 were banned from being chimney sweeps.
1872 The secret ballot (vote) is introduced
1873 Invention of typewriter by Christopher Sholes
1874 The Ten Hour Factory Act introduced
1875 The first chocolate Easter eggs made by Fry's of Bristol
1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1879 Thomas Edison invents the electric light bulb
1880 Children up to the age of 12 made to go to school
1884 First safety bicycle
1885 First petrol motorcar invented by Karl Benz
1888 Invention of Kodak Box Camera by George Eastman
1890 First ever comic book published in London (Comic Cuts)
1891 First ever hydro-electric power station
1894 Moving Pictures(Cinematograph) invented by Lumiere brothers
1895 Discovery of X Rays by WK Roentgen
1895 Gugliemo Marconi launches the first wireless (radio)
1901 Death of Queen Victoria