YEAR	TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE	ARTS & LITERATURE	MILITARY	EVENTS
PRE 1800's
1799	Electric Battery
1800'S
1800	Jacquard Loom
1802	Steam Locomotive
1803	John Dalton introduce atomic theory into chemistry
1806	Carbon Paper
1807	Steam Ship
1810'S
1811				Rise of the Luddites
1816		Frankenstein Mary Shelley Charlotte Bronte born
1820'S		Population	Great Britain XX.X mil	U.S. 9.6 mil.
1824	Daguerrotype Photography
1830'S		Population	Great Britain 13.9 mil	U.S. 12.8 mil.
1837				Queen Victoria takes the throne
1838	Small Electric Motors First Telegraph
1839			First Opium War begins British Army in Afghanistan
1840'S		Population	Great Britain 18.5 mil	U.S. 17 mil.
1840		London Library opened		Queen Victoria marries her Albert, her cousin The penny post is introduced Frederick William IV of Prussia takes the throne Botannical Gardens at Kew open
1841	Hypnosis discovered	The Old Curiosity Shop, Dickens The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Poe Punch begins publication in London		John Tyler, US President Robert Peel, Prime Minister Queen Victoria Gives birth to Edward New Zealand becomes a British colony
1842	Doppler effect	The Masque of the Red Death, Poe The polka becomes popular		The Chartist Riots Queen Victoria makes her first railroad journey
1843	Thames Tunnel completed Royal Archeaological Society founded	A Christmas Carol, Dickens The Flying Dutchman Wagner		Siamese twins Chang and Eng marry sisters
1844	Morse Telegraph			YMCA founded in England
1845	Hydrolic crane English Channel submarine cable	The Raven, Poe Tannhauser, Wagner	Anglo-Sikh War	James Polk, US President Texas, Florida become states
1846	Ether used as anaesthetic Electric arc lighting used in the Opera in Paris		U. S. Mexican War begins	Iowa becomes state
1847	Evaporated milk	Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte Jane Erye, Charlotte Bronte		Mormons found Salt Lake City
1848	Lord Kelvin determines absolute zero safety matches First appendectomy		Second Sikh War	European revolutions Wisconsin becomse state Queen's College for Women founded in London Wisconsin becomes a state Marx and Engels issue "Communist Manifesto"
1849		Dostoevsky sentenced to Siberia until 1858		Zachary Taylor becomes US president Disreali becomes head of Conservative Party, England Gold discovered in Australia and California Livingstone crosses Kalahari Desert Bedford College for Women, London
1850'S		Population	Great Britain 21 mil	U.S. 23 mil.
1850	Telegraph cable under English channel
1851	The Elevator Foucault's Pendulum Bunsen burner Royal Meteorological Society, London	Sonnets from the Portuguese, E. B. Browning The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne Lohengren, Wagner Jenny Lind, the Swedish nightingale, tours America	Taiping Rebellion	The Great Exhibition of London (Crystal Palace) California becomes state Millard Filmore, US President
1851	Opthalmoscope Sewing machine, Singer	Moby Dick, Melville Rigoletto, Verdi
1852	Plaster bandages	Bleak House, Dickens Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe	Second Burmese War	Livingstone explores Zambizi Wells Fargo founded
1853	Samuel Colt Hypodermic syringe Chloroform used on Queen Victoria Telegraph system in India Railroad across the Alps		Crimean War begins	Franklin Pierce, US President Napoleon III marries Eugenie REconstruction begins at Balmoral Castle
1854	Boolean Logic Laryngoscope	The Charge of the Light Brigade, Tennyson		Republican Party founded in US Working Men's College, London
1855	Printing telegraph rayon Cunard steamer crosses Atlantic	Pilgrimage to Mecca, Burton		Nicholas i dies; succeeded by Alexander II Livingstone discovers Victoria Falls paris World Fair Florence Nightingale begins hospital reforms
1856	Cocaine aniline dye Neanderthal skull found Bessemer converter	Madame Bovary, Flaubert	Anglo-Chinese War	Big Ben is cast
1857	Otis Elevator Pasteur explains fermentation	Victoria and Albert Museum, London	Indian Mutiny	James Buchanan, US President Fenians founded
1858
1859	Refrigeration Origin of Species Charles Darwin
1860'S		Population	Great Britain 23 mil	U.S. 32 mil.
1861			U. S. Civil War begins	Prince Albert dies
1864				Red Cross established
1870'S		Population	Great Britain 26 mil	U.S. 39 mil.
1876	Phonograph - Thomas Edison
1879			Zulu War	Somerville and Lady Margaret Colleges (for women) founded at Oxford
1880'S		Population	Great Britain XX mil	U.S. XX mil.
1886				Statue of Liberty completed
1887	Heinrich Hertz discovers photoelectric effect Michelson and Morley are unable to detect ether drift			Eiffel Tower begins construction
1889				Nellie Bly travels around the world
1890'S		Population	Great Britain XX mil	U.S. XX mil.
1891	Motion Pictures
1893	First Solar Cells Zippers
1894		Time Machine H. G. Wells
1895	Marconi's Wireless Telegraph
1897	Diesel Engine Joseph Thomson discovers the electron	Dracula Bram Stoker
1898	Telegraphone Marie and Pierre Curie isolate radium and polonium	War of the Worlds H. G. Wells
1899			Boer War begins
1900'S
1901	Electric Typewriter Marconi sends a radio signal across the Atlantic			Queen Victoria dies
1906	Photoelectric scanning facsimile
1909	Einstein promulgates the Theory of Relativity