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Queen's Bazaar, 73 Oxford Street, rebuilt as the Princess's Theatre Royalty Theatre, Soho built During the 1840s a new form of entertainment arrives from America known as the Nigger Minstrels Rowland Hill introduces the penny post Abney Park cemetery opens in Stoke Newington A number of places compete for the honour of being the first ever of a new kind of music hall. Brompton Cemetery, on Old Brompton, Road opens Nunhead Cemetery opens London & Blackwall Railway, from The Minories to Brunswick Dock at Blackwall, opens Penny Post introduced in England British setlement of New Zealand begins Clarinet invented in Germany by Johann Cristoph Denner Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton call the first Womens rights convention in London Algerian
leader Abd al-Qadir conducts a bitter and violent war against the
French Princess's Theatre, 73 Oxford Street, opens Hippodrome racecourse in Ladbroke Grove closes Jay's Mourning Warehouse opens at 247-9 Oxford Street 'The murders of the Rue Morgue' published by Edgar Allan Poe First edition of Punch Kew Gardens opens to the public The London Library opens at 49 Pall Mall Fleet and Marshalsea prison abolished Pentonville Prison opened Charles Dickens publishes his American Notes. Health reformer Edwin Chadwick publishes his Sanitary Report First Tunnel under the Thames in London, and first in the world under water, opens. Built by Isambard Brunel Children's Employment Commission Report published First issue of the Illustrated London News Primrose Hill opens to the public Queen Victoria travels by train, from Windsor to Paddington Mudie's Library founded in Red Lion Square New York Philharmonic Orchestra founded Stephen Collins Foster publishes first song 'Open thy lattice love' Theatre Regulations Act of 1843 passed. Feb - John Mitchell's second season of French Plays performed at the St. James's Theatre Nelson's column erected in Trafalgar Square Thames Tunnel opened News of the World first published First Christmas cards go on sale in London, (many Christmas traditions have their origin in Victorian England) Albion saloon, foreruner of Wilton's New Royal Exchange building opens Association for Promoting Cleanliness Amongst the Poor founded Tom Thumb appears at the Egyptian Hall YMCA founded The English Factory Act establishes a twelve hour working day for female factory workers Samuel Morse sends first public telegram City Theatre, Glasgow, Built and Destroyed in the same year Cremorne Gardens open Hungerford Suspension Bridge opens New Oxford Street opens Victoria Park opens Edgar Allen Poe publishes his book 'The Raven and other poems' Women in Sweden get equal rights of inheritance Catastrophic famine in Ireland begins, brought about by successive failures of the staple potato crop. In British-ruled Ireland the governments of Robert Peel and, particularly, John Russell, are slow to react to the disaster. Opening of the Grand Harmonic Hall at the Grapes Tavern in Southwark. Endell Street constructed American Elias Howe invents the sewing machine Ether demonstrated as a general anesthetic in Boston Massachusettes First Saxophone patented by Antoine Joseph Sax Planet Neptune observed and confirmed The Corn Laws, established to set duties on the import of grain, were repealed as the result of the Irish Famine and of the campaigns led by the Anti-Corn Law League New House of Lords opens Clerkenwell House of Detention opens Liberia was established by the American colonization society to enable freed slaves in the United States to return to Africa and settle there Charlotte Bronte publishes 'Jane Eyre' Emily Bronte publishes 'Wuthering Heights' Delarue Lloyd, Arthur Lloyd's brother, born May - Horatio Lloyd at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle W.H.Smith's first bookstall opens Chartist demonstration on Kennington Common Simpson's Restaurant in the Strand opens Waterloo Station opens, replaced Nine Elms as terminus for London & South Western Railway Queen's College, first school for higher education of women, opens in Harley Street American engineer James Bogardus builds the firts cast iron frame buildings Californian Gold Rush Begins Kelvin
Proposes Scale of Absolute Temperature 15th Jan - Horatio Lloyd opens the Prince's Theatre, Glasgow Charles Morton takes over the Canterbury arms Cholera epidemic Olympic Theatre, in Wych Street, burns down Coal Exchange, Lower Thames Street, opens Great Hall at Euston Station opens 1800 1810 1820 1830 1840 1850 1860 1870 1880 1890 1900 1910
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