| Pre-Raphaelite Events | Year | Other Events |
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 Henry Wallis born
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| George IV dies; succeeded by William IV
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Christina Rossetti born
| Liverpool to Manchester railway formally opened |
| | Louis Philippe becomes "the Citizen King" in France
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| Philip Speakman Webb born |  | Darwin sails to South America, New Zealand and Australia
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| John Brett born | London Bridge opened |
| | Faraday demonstrates electromagnetic induction |
| | Population of Great Britain 13.9 million, USA 12.8 million |
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| Arthur Hughes born |  | First Reform Act passed to give English middle classes the vote
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| | Cholera epidemics sweep England, New York and New Orleans
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| Edward Burne-Jones born |  | Birmingham Town Hall completed
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| Brown moves to Belgium with his family; studies in Ghent | First Venetian pictures shown by J. M. W. Turner at Royal Academy
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| | Factory Act limits work hours for women and boys and introduces factory inspection |
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William Morris born
|  | Parliament destroyed by fire
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| | End of Spanish Inquisition
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| | Thomas Carlyle: Sartor Resartus
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| | Hansom cabs in London
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| | Poor Law establishes workhouse system
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| |  | William Fox Talbot takes first negative photograph at Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
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| | Hans Christian Andersen publishes his first children's tale
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| |  | Chartism, the first national working-class movement demands universal suffrage and vote by ballot
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| | Joseph Chamberlain born
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Dyce is appointed Superintendent of the new School of Design, Somerset House (resigns 1843)
|  | William IV dies; Victoria becomes Queen aged eighteen
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Brown attends Antwerp Academy, studying under Gustave, Baron Wappers
| England institutes official birth registration
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| |  | London to Birmingham Railway opens
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| | National Gallery opens in London
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| |  | First Opium War between Britain and China
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| | Dickens's Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby are bestselling books
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| | Chartists riot in Birmingham
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| | First electric clock built
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1830s 
