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Victoria becoms Queen of England
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Period: to
The Victorian Age
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Feargus O'Connor introduces the People's Charter to Parliament
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Charlotte Brontë published Jane Eyre
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Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights
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The Great Exhibition at Crystal Palace
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The Crimean War
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Charles Dickens published Hard Times
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Darwin published "The Origin of Species"
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Disraeli introduces his Reform Act to Parliament
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Elementary Education Act
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Trade Union Act
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Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India
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The First Boer War
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Gladstone introduces the Third Reform Bill to Parliamenty
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Oscar Wilde published The Picture of Dorian Gray
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The Labour Party
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The Second Boer War
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Period: to
The First Part of the 20th Century
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Death of Queen Victoria
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Edward VII succeeds to the throne
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Mrs Pankhurst founds the movement of Suffragette
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George V succeeds to the throne
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Health and Insurance Act
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James Joyce published The Dubliners
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The First World War
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The Easter Rising
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Only the women aged over 30 got the right of vote
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The end of the First World War
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Peace Conference in Paris at Versailles
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Wilfred Owen wrote Dulce et Decorum Est
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The Prohibition in the United States
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James Joyce published Ulysses
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The Great Depression (or the Wallstreet Crush)
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The Nazi Party was elected
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George VI succeeds to the throne
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Britain declares war on Hilter's Germany
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Pearl Harbor
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D-Day (the day of the Normandy landings)
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End of second World War
