overview of the victorian age
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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!. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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BY: SAMANTHA HITCHCOCK
Overview of the Victorian Age
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1837: Victoria becomes Queen!
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
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1840: Victoria marries first cousin Prince Albert of saxe-coburg
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1845: Brunel built the S.S. Great Britain
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CORN LAWS: IMPOSED HEAVY DUTIES ON IMPORTATION OF GRAIN
1846: Repeal of Corn Laws
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1847: Ten Hours Act restricted working hours of children in
factories
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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.
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1859: Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species
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TYPHOID FEVERAGE 42
1861: Death of Prince Albert
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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
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January 22, 1901: Queen Victoria Dies (Age 82)