Rossetti, Christina Timeline

Year Historical Literary Author
1830 Death of George IV and accession of William IV
Earl Grey's Whig reforming government
'Captain Swing' rural riots
Opening of Manchester - Liverpool Railway
July Revolution in France
Greek independence from Ottoman Empire secured 		Cobbett's Rural Rides
Charles Lyell (Dante Gabriel?s Godfather), Principles of Geology
1831 Wellington resigns as Prime Minister in opposition to Parliamentary reform
National Union of the Working Class founded
Michael Faraday discovers electromagnetic induction
Cholera outbreak in England 		Mill's The Spirit of the Age
1832 Parliamentary Reform Act passed
Passage of the Great Reform Act
Morse invents the telegraph 		Chambers' Edinburgh Journal and Penny Magazine (-1837) begin
1833 First Tracts for the Times published
Factory Act limits children's working hours and includes provision for education
Abolition of Slavey Act 		Carlyle's Sartor Resartus (-1834)
1834 New Poor Law
1837 Death of William IV and accession of Queen Victoria
Brunel, Great Western Railway 		Carlyle's The French Revolution
Sarah Stickney Ellis, The Women of England: Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
1838 Anti-Corn Law League founded
Chartist petitions published
London to Birmingham railway opens
People's Charter issued 		Letitia Landon dies, Gold Coast
1839 First Factory Inspector's report Carlyle's Chartism
Darwin's The Voyage of the Beagle
Ellis' The Women of England:Their Social Duties and Domestic Habits
1840 Penny post begins
Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.
1841 The Tories come to power. Sir Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
Punch begins
1842 Jowett becomes tutor at Balliol College, Oxford
Chartist riots. Report on Sanitary Conditions of Labouring Population
Mudie's Lending Library opens
Illustrated London News begins 		First surviving poem by Rossetti, ?To My Mother?
1843 Theatre Regulation Act Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present
Ruskin's Modern Painters (vol. 1) 		Begins attending Christ Church, Albany Street
1844 Co-operative Society founded in Rochdale
Factory Act (women and children)
Expansion of railways across Britain 		Disraeli's Coningsby, or The New Generation published
1845 John Henry Newman converts to Catholicism
Financial speculation in Railways
Onset of the Irish potato famine
The first Anglican sisterhood, Park Village, is founded in the Christ Church parish 		Disraeli's Sybil, or The Two Nations published
E. A. Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
1846 Repeal of Corn Laws
Famine in Ireland
Whigs come to Power
1847 Railway reaches Dorchester
Ten Hours' Factory Act 		Disraeli's Tancred Verses: Dedicated to her Mother , privately printed by her grandfather
1848 Chartist demonstrations in London following by the collapse of the Chartist movement
Democratic Revolutions in Europe.
Cholera epidemic
Public Health Act
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded 		Marx and Engels' Communist Manifesto
Newman's Loss and Gain 		First poems are published in the Athenaeum
Engaged to James Collinson (member of the PRB)
1849 Bedford College for Women founded Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke Salt for Dante Gabriel Rossetti as model for Mary in Ecce Ancilla Domini!
1850 Roman Catholic hierarchy established
Public Libraries Act 		Charles Kingsley, Alton Locke
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter 		Engagement with Collinson is ended
Writes Maude: A Story for Girls
1851 Great Exhibition in London
Taylor Mill's The Enfranchisement of Women 		Ruskin's Stones of Venice Assists mother with a school for young children
1853 Cholera epidemic
Crimean War 		Yonge's Heir of Redclyffe
1854 Onset of Crimean War Gabriele Rossetti dies
1855 Daily Telegraph
Repeal of stamp duty on newspapers 		Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South
1856 Crimean War ends Dickens, Little Dorrit
1857 Railway extended to Weymouth
Indian Mutiny
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act 		Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Hughes' Tom Brown's School days
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh
1858 Ballantyne's Coral Island
English Woman's Journal begins
George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life
1859 Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species published
Rise of movement for Home Rule in Ireland 		Smiles' Self Help published
Mill's On Liberty
1860 Cornhill Magazine begins
1861 Death of Prince Consort
American Civil War begins 		Dickens, Great Expectations
Beeton's Book of Household Management
Wood's East Lynne
1862 Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret Rossetti's Goblin Market and other poems
Meets poets Jean Ingelow and Dora Greenwell. Joins Portfolio Society
1863 The Oxford Declaration published Kingsley's The Water Babies
1864 John Henry Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua Moves to Hastings for three months to improve health
1865 Women's Suffrage Campaign
Transatlantic cable laid
Joseph Lister establishes antiseptic surgery
Completion of St. Pancras' railway station 		Matthew Arnold's Essays in Criticism Travels to Switzerland and Italy
1866 Cholera epidemic Swinburne's Poems and Ballads (dedicated to Rossetti) published The Prince?s Progress and Other Poems
Declines proposal of marriage from Charles Cayley
1867 Second Reform Act
Fenian Rising in Ireland 		Marx's Das Kapital published
George Eliot's Felix Holt, the Radical
1868 Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
1869 Opening of Suez Canal
Mill's The Subjection of Women 		Arnold's Culture and Anarchy
Blackmore's Lorna Doone
1870 Education Act: free education in new board schools
First Married Women's Property Act 		Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poems Commonplace and Other Short Stories
1871 Trade Union Act
Darwin's The Descent of Man 		Suffers from Graves? disease
1872 MacDonald's The Princess and the Goblin Sing-Song: A Nursery Rhyme Book
1873 Mill's Autobiography
Pater's Studies in the Renaissance 		Sister, Maria, joins All Saints? Sisterhood
1874 Annus Domini: A Prayer for Each Day of the Year
1875 Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial by Jury
1876 Invention of telephone by Alexander Graham Bell
Queen Victorian proclaimed Empress of India 		Death of Maria
1877 Enrols on course of lectures on Dante?s Divine Comedy at University College London
1878 Gramophones first produced by Thomas Edison
Newman made Cardinal
Revolutions in Europe 		Hardy's Return of the Native published
Gilbert and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore
1879 Electric lightbulb invented George Meredith's The Egoist published Seek and Find: A Double Series of Short Studies on the Benedicite
1880 (-1881) First Boer War, also known as the Transvaal War Hardy's The Trumpet Major is published
1881 First Anglo-Boer War Hardy's A Laodicean published
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ballads and Sonnets 		A Pageant and Other Poems
Called to be Saints: The Minor Festivals Devotionally Studied
1882

First commercial production of electricity

Married Women's Property Act, enables women to buy, own and sell property and to keep their own earnings 		Death of Dante Gabriel
1883 Fabian Society founded

Nietzsche, Also Sprach Zarathrustra
1884 Ruskin's Storm Cloud of the Nineteenth-Century
1885 Haggard's King Solomon's Mines Time Flies: A Reading Diary
1886 Death of Frances Rossetti
1887 Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrating 50 years of her reign Haggard's Allan Quartermain
1888 Jack the Ripper murders five women in London
Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 		Arnold's Essays in Criticism (Second Series)
1889 Newman dies Death of Gerard Manley Hopkins
1890 First underground railway in London
Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough (first two vols; complete 13 vols., -1915) 		William Morris' News from Nowhere
Emily Dickinson, Poems
1891 William Morris, Kelmscott Press Gissing's New Grub Street
1892 Daimlers sell their first motor car The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse
1893 Independent Labour Party formed Verses (reprinted from Called to be Saints, Time Flies and The Face of the Deep)
1894 Death of Christina Rossetti
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