Modern British From 1861 Onward

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1861-1865

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1. American Civil War

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1862

Back 2

1. Christina Rossetti - "Goblin Market"

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1864

Back 3

1. Robert Browning - "Dramatis Personae"

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1865

Back 4

1. Lewis Carroll - "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
2. Jamaica Rebellion

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1866

Back 5

1. Algernon Charles Swinburne - "Poems and Ballads"

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1867

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1. Karl Marx - "Das Kapital"
2. Second Reform Bill

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1868

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1. Opening of Suez Canal

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1869

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1. Matthew Arnold - "Culture and Anarchy"
2. John Stuart Mill - "The Subjection of Women"

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1870

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1. Married Women's Property Act
2. Victory in Franco-Prussian War makes Germany a world power
3. Elementary Education Act

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1871

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1. Darwin - "Descent of Man"
2. Newnham College (first women's Oxbridge college) founded at Cambridge

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1872

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1. George Eliot - "Middlemarch"

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1873

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1. Walter Pater - "Studies in the History of the Renaissance"

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1877

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1. Queen Victoria made empress of India
2. Gerard Manley Hopkins joins Jesuit order

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1878

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1. Electric street lighting in London

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1882

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1. Married Women's Property Act

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1885

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1. W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan - "The Mikado"
2. Massacre of General Gordon and his forces and the fall of Khartoum

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1886

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1. Robert Louis Stevenson - "Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"

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1888

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1. Rudyard Kipling - "Plain Tales from the Hills"

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1889

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1. William Butler Yeats - "Crossways"

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1890

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1. First subway line in London

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1891

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1. Thomas Hardy - "Tess of the D'Urbervilles
2. Bernard Shaw - "The Quintessence of Ibsenism
3. Oscar Wilde - "The Picture of Dorian Grey"
4. Arthur Conan Doyle - "Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"
5. Free elementary education

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1893

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1. George Bernard Shaw - "Mrs. Warren's Profession"
2. Independent Labour Party

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1895

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1. Oscar Wilde - "The Importance of Being Earnest"
2. Oscar Wilde arrested and imprisoned for homosexuality
3. Thomas Hardy - "Jude the Obscure

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1896

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1. A.E. Housman - "A Shropshire Lad"

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1898

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1. Thomas Hardy - "Wessex Poems"
2. Discovery of radium

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1899

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1. Irish Literary Theater founded in Dublin

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1899-1902

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1. Anglo-Boer War

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1900

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1. Joseph Conrad - "Lord Jim"

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1901

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1. Death of Queen Victoria; succession of Edward VII

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1899, 1902

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1. Joseph Conrad - "heard of Darkness"