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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1821 | - 19 Jul 1821: George IV's coronation
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| 2 | 1831 | - 8 Sep 1831: William IV's coronation
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| 3 | 1837 | - 1 Jul 1837: Civil Registration of births, marriages and deaths started in England and Wales
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| 4 | 1838 | - 1838: Charles Dickens' 'Oliver Twist' is published
- 28 Jun 1838: Queen Victoria's coronation
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| 5 | 1845 | - 1845—1852: Irish Potato Famine
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| 6 | 1859 | - 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of Species' is published
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| 7 | 1880 | - 2 Aug 1880: Education becomes compulsory for children under ten
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| 8 | 1881 | - 17 Jan 1881: Sir William Armstrong's home becomes the first to use electric light
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| 9 | 1894 | - Mar 1894: Parish councils are created
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| 10 | 1902 | - 2 Aug 1902: Edward VII's coronation
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| 11 | 1911 | - 22 Jun 1911: George V's coronation
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| 12 | 1914 | - 28 Jul 1914—11 Nov 1918: World War I
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| 13 | 1926 | - 26 Jan 1926: John Logie Baird gives the first public demonstration of television
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| 14 | 1928 | - 7 May 1928: All women over the age of 21 get the vote
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| 15 | 1937 | - 12 May 1937: George VI's coronation
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| 16 | 1939 | - 1 Sep 1939—2 Sep 1945: World War II
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| 17 | 1952 | - 2 Jun 1952: Queen Elizabeth II's coronation
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