Victorian era
1837–1901 · Event
Reign of Queen Victoria and the era of British global pre-eminence, industrial expansion, social reform, and imperialism.
On these timelines: England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from England
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- Magna Carta (1215)
- English Civil War (1642)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
Around 1837
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)