Charles George Gordon
1833–1885 · Person
'Chinese Gordon' of the Ever Victorious Army, evangelical soldier-administrator and slave-trade suppressor in Sudan, killed at the fall of Khartoum — the Victorian empire's supreme martyr-hero.
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More from British Empire
- Company rule in India (1757)
- Early English settlement of North America (1585)
- Victoria becomes Empress of India (1876)
- Equiano's Interesting Narrative (1789)
- Cecil Rhodes (1853)
- London Declaration creates the modern Commonwealth (1949)
- Morant Bay Rebellion (1865)
- First Virginia Charter (1606)
Around 1833
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)