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The Victorian Period (1830s (1840s (1850s (1860s (1870s (1880s (1890s…

- - - - 1850: Alfred, Lord Tennyson becomes poet laurette
      - 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 Eliot
      - 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 or Parliament
      - 1858: Medical Act closes loophole that briefly allowed women to become physicians in Great Britain
      - 1860s
        
        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: U.S. Civil War begins
        
        1861: Russian Serfs are emancipated
        
        1863: Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation declares slavery illegal in Confederate territories
        
        1867: Second Reform Act gives vote to most male industrial workers, doubling the number of voters
        
        1867: Last Japanese shogun resigns; power returns to emperor
        
        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
        
        1870s
        
        1879: Zulu War against British in South Africa begins
        
        1879: Thomas Edison invents the incandescent lamp
        
        1880s
        
        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 for British women's suffrage
        
        1890s
        
        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
        
        1900s
        
        1900: L. Frank Baum publishes The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
        
        1901: Queen Victoria dies