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The Victorian Period (1830's (1840's (1850's (1860's…

- - - - 1850- Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes poet laureate
      - 1850- Nathaniel Hawthorne publishes The Scarlet Letter
      - 1852- Sojourner Truth delivers her "Ain't I a Woman?" speech in Akron, Ohio
      - 1857- Mary Ann Evans publishes stories in Blackwood's Magazine, using her pen name, George Elliot
      - 1859- Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
      - 1854- Japan opens trade to the West
      - 1858- Change in laws allows Lionel de Rothschild to become first Jewish member of Parliament
      - 1858- Mdical act closes loophole that briefly allowed women to become physicians in Great Britain
      - 1860's
        
        1862- In France, Victor Hugo publishes Les Miserables
        
        1865- Lewis Carroll publishes Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
        
        1868-1869- Louisa May Alcott publishes Little Women
        
        1869- In Russia, Leo Tolstoy publishes the complete text of War and Peace
        
        1861- Civil War begins
        
        1861- Russian serfs are emancipated
        
        1863- Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declares slavery illegal in Confederate territories
        
        1867- Last Japanese shogun resigns; power returns to emporer
        
        1868- Britain ends eighty-year practice of deporting convicts to Australia
        
        1869- Debtors' prisons are abolished in England
        
        1869- Suez canal is opened
        
        1869- Mohandas K. Gandhi is born in India
        
        1870's
        
        1879- Zulu War against British in South Africa begins
        
        1879- Thomas Edison invents the incandescent lamp
        
        1880's
        
        1884- Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn appears
        
        1887- Arthur Conan Doyle introduces the world to Sherlock Holmes with A Study in Scarlet
        
        `1885- Indian National Congress is formed; begins agitating for Indian self-rule
        
        1889- Emmeline Pankhurst forms Women's Franchise League, arguing British Parliament for second time
        
        1890's
        
        1893- Home Rule Bill (to create an Irish Parliament) defeated by British Parliament for second time
        
        1898- French scientists Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium
        
        1900's
        
        L. Frank Baum publishes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
        
        1901- Queen Victoria dies