| Pre-Raphaelite Events | Year | Other Events |
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 John Ruskin born |  | Future Queen Victoria and Prince Consort Albert born |
| | Opening of Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly |
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| |  | George III dies, succeeded by George IV |
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| Ford Madox Brown born |  | Population in Britain, 20.8 million; in America, 9.6 million |
| | Greeks Revolt against Turkish Control |
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| |  | Royal Academy of Music founded in London |
| | Streets of Boston lit by gas |
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| |  | Monroe Doctrine closes America to European Colonial settlement |
| | Oxford Union Society founded |
| | Charles Macintosh invents waterproof fabric |
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| |  | National Gallery founded in London |
| | Lord Byron dies at Missolonghi, supporting Greek war of independence |
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| James Collinson born |  | First passenger railway line opens between Stockton and Darlington |
| | Tea roses from China introduced into Europe
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| William Dyce visits Italy |  | Modern trade unions begin in England |
| | University College and Royal Zoological Society founded in London |
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| William Holman Hunt born |  | Ohm's Law links electrical current, potential difference and resistance |
| Walter Howell Deverell born in Charlottesville, Virginia, to English parents | Bright's Disease identified by Dr Richard Bright |
| | Karl Baedeker begins publishing his travel guides |
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| Dante Gabriel Rossetti born in London, son of an Italian political refugee and Dante scholar |  | Henry Brougham delivers the longest recorded speech (six hours) in the House of Commons |
| | London publications Athenaeum and Spectator founded |
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| Dyce returns from Rome to Aberdeen, then Edinburgh |  | Thomas Attwood founds the Birmingham Political Union to demand parliamentary reform |
| Frederick Sandys born | Catholic Emancipation Act |
| John Everett Millais born | Stephenson's Rocket successful in trials in Liverpool |
| William Michael Rossetti born | |
| Elizabeth Siddal born | |
