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), British Empire
More from England
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Acts of Union 1707 (1707)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
- Henry VIII (1491)
Around 1837
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Victorian era begins (1837)