1801 Castlereagh secures passage of the Act of Union, which unites Britain and Ireland;
the British defeat Napolean's army of Egypt at Alexandria;

the Union Jack becomes the official flag of the United Kingdom

1807 Abolition of the slave trade throughout the British Empire

1808 The British under Wellington aid Portugal against France in the Peninsular War

1809 Lamarck publishes his theories of evolution in Zoological Philosophy

1812 Territorial disputes between the U.S. and Britain lead to the War of 1812;

1813 William Henry Harrison defeats the British at the Battle of the Thames

1814 The Treaty of Ghent ends the War of 1812 between the U.S. and Britain; Jane Austen,

1815 Battle of Waterloo

1817 Coleridge, Biographia Literaria

1818 Keats, Endymion. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (Text). Scott, Rob Roy

1819 Birth of Victoria

1829 Catholic Emancipation Act

1830 William IV succeeds George IV as king of England, Scotland, and Ireland

1832 The Reform Bill

1836 Dickens, Pickwick Papers(Text); Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Nature."(Text)

1837 William IV dies,

Accession of Queen Victoria age 18 (to 1901);

Britain refuses to grant more home rule in Canada which leads to the Rebellions of 1837

1838-1849 The Chartist Movement

1840 Shelley, A Defence of Poetry Macaulay, Lord Clive

1842 Mines Act of 1842;

1843 Wordsworth Poet Laureate

1845 Repeal of the Corn Laws

Engels, The Condition of the Working Class in England

1845-1850 Famine in Ireland

1847 Marx and Engels, The Communist Manifesto(Text)

1849 Henry David Thoreau, "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience."

1850 Tennyson, In Memoriam Tennyson Poet Laureate

1852 Revolt in Burma

1854 The Crimean War;

Dickens, Hard Times

1856 The Treaty of Paris ends the Crimean War

1857 Sepoy or Indian Mutiny

Dickens, Little Dorrit

1858 Victoria proclaims permanent British rule of India

1859 Darwin, Origin of Species (Text)

1865 Lewis CarrolI, Alice in Wonderland(Text).

1867 Karl Marx, Das Kapital

The Second Reform Bill

1869 Tennyson, The Holy Grail and Other Poems.

1870 Education Act of 1870

1871 Darwin, Descent of Man(Text)

1873 Ashanti Revolt

1874 Benjamin Disraeli becomes the Conservative Prime Minister of Britain

1875 Public Health Act of 1875

1876 Victoria proclaimed Empress of India

1879 Zulu Wars

1884 The Third Reform Bill; Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn(Text)

1886 Britain makes Burma a province of India after winning the Anglo-Burma War;

1888 Kipling, Plain Tales from the Hills

1898 Britain obtains a 99 year lease for Hong Kong from China

1900 Boxer Rebellion

1899-1902 Boer War

1901 Death of Victoria age 81