Themes of Victorian Era

1815
- Ludite Riot (against Industrial Progress)

1820s
- Deaths
     - 1821 John Keats
     - 1822 Percy Shelley
     - 1827 Lord Byron
     - 1827 William Blake

1830
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway

1832
- 1st Reform Bill
     - One possible beginning of the Victorian Era

1833
- Abolishment of Colonial Slavery
     - Took an eight year transaction
     - Finialized by the 1839 Jamaica Act

1837
- Queen Victoria takes over throne from King William (her uncle - she is still quite young)
     - 1901 she dies

1837-1848 is considered the 'Time of Trouble'

1846
- Taxes (Corn Laws) on grain so it was at a high cost
- People began to starve and the corn laws end

1848 - 1870 is considered the 'Age of Improvement'

1851
- Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace

1857
- House of Parliament overtook India from the East India Trading Company

1859
- Origin of Species by Charles Darwin

1861 - 1865
- United States' Civil War

1867
- Canada becomes dominion of England
- 2nd Reform Bill

1870 - 1901
- Late/Age of Decay

1870
- Married Women's Property Act

1877
- Victoria crowns herself Empress of India

1885
- 3rd Reform Bill

1890
- 1/4 of the territories in the world owned by England
     - Never does the sun set on the British Empire
     - Queen Victoria owns 1/4 of the World (Tunisia, Egypt, and Algeria are fighting for their freedom)
- London becomes city of Western Civilization
     - Becomes popular when:
          1837 population 2 million
          1901 population 6.5 million
               - huge shift of money and population
               - very dense place filled with people

Themes
- Industrialization
     - London becomes focus
- Imperialism
     - Middle class
- Science