| Pre-Raphaelite Events | Year | Other Events |
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 Brown marries cousin and begins to exhibit at the Royal Academy
|  | Queen Victoria marries her cousin, Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
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Ruskin meets J. M. W. Turner
| Penny postage established in Britain |
Millais enters the Royal Academy Schools, youngest ever student
| 2,816 miles of railway in USA; 1,331 miles in England
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| |  | Future King Edward VII born
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| | Punch magazine launched
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| | Invention of the Saxophone
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Brown: 'Parisina's Sleep': study for the head of Parisina
|  | Treaty of Nanking ends Opium War and confirms cession of Hong Kong to Great Britain
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| | Queen Victoria makes her first railway journey
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Ruskin's 'Modern Painters', volume one is published
|  | Competition launched for decoration of new Houses of Parliament
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Woolner first exhibits at Royal Academy
| Thomas Carlyle: Past and Present
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Deverell attends Sass's Academy and meets Rossetti
|  | Samuel Morse sends first telegraph message
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Dyce commissioned for frescoes in Westminster competition
| YMCA founded in England
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Hunt enters Royal Academy Schools at third attempt, meets Millais and Stephens
| Wood-pulp paper invented
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Brown travels to Italy for his wife's health; visits the studios of Nazarene painters Cornelius and Overbeck in Rome
|  | Failure of potato crop in Ireland leads to famine and emigration |
| | First submarine cable laid under the English Channel |
| | Newman converts to Roman Catholicism
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| Millais first exhibits at the Royal Academy; meets Effie Grey Ruskin |  | Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah first performed in Birmingham Town Hall
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Brown returns to England after the death of his wife in Paris
| Sewing machine patented by Elias Howe |
| | USA declares war on Mexico |
| | Discovery of planet Neptune |
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Hunt reads Ruskin's Modern Painters and discovers poetry of Keats
|  | Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell born
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Millais is lent a book of engravings of the frescoes in the Campo Santo, Pisa
| Charlotte Brontë: Jane EyreEmily Brontë: Wuthering Heights
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| | Evaporated Milk made for first time
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Deverell, Hunt, Millais and Rossetti contribute to the Cyclographic Society
|  | Revolutions all over Europe
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded in September by Rossetti brothers, Millais, Hunt, Woolner, Collinson and Stephens
| Marx and Engels proclaim Communist Manifesto
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| | Last Chartist demonstration |
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| Deverell meets Elizabeth Siddal |  | European Revolutions subside |
| First pictures inscribed with the initialsP. R. B. are exhibited at the Royal Academy (Hunt: 'Rienzi'; Millais: 'Isabella') | John Ruskin: The Seven Lamps of Architecture |
| | Benjamin Disraeli becomes leader of Conservative Party |
| | Britain annexes Punjab |
1840s 
