a loc on ln ti Victorian Timeline al a
! Petworth Emigration Scheme to Canada ends 1837 ! Queen Victoria becomes Queen aged 18 ! Sussex Agricultural Express newspaper starts publication 1838 ! Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens published ! First practical photographic process is invented by Louis Daguerre ! Launch of Brunel's Great Western, the first steamship to routinely cross the Atlantic
! Sussex County Cricket Club formed, the first in Britain 1839 ! First pedalled bicycle invented, Scotland
! Brighton to Shoreham railway line opens, the first in Sussex 1840 ! Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha ! Horsham Volunteer Fire Brigade established ! First postage stamps and postal system introduced by Roland Hill ! London to Brighton railway line completed 1841 ! 'Punch' magazine begins publication ! Brighton, Burgess Hill, Haywards Heath & Three Bridges railway stations (& others) open ! Thomas Cook travel company created 1842 ! Mines Act forbids the employment of children under ten underground 1843 ! Queen Victoria makes her first railway journey ! First public telegraph service, enabling telegrams to be sent ! Wordsworth becomes Poet Laureate ! Launch of Brunel's Great Britain, the first screw-propellor-driven steamship to cross the Atlantic
1844 ! Factory Act forbids employment of children under 8, etc
! Worthing railway station opens 1845 ! Potato famine in Ireland from 1845 to 1848 ! Regular horse-drawn coach service from Worthing to London stops running ! Osborne House, Isle of Wight, becomes Queen Victoria's seaside holiday home ! Chichester railway station opens 1846 ! Shoreham Harbour lighthouse built ! Factory Act limits women and 13 to 18 years olds to 10 working ! Portsmouth railway station opens 1847 hours per day ! Lancing College founded in New Shoreham by the Rev. Nathaniel Woodard, ! First double-decker horse bus followed by others at Ardingly & Hurstpierpoint ! Horsham railway station opens 1848 ! Health of Towns Act passed 1850s ! Telegraph cable laid under the English Channel 1851 ! The Great Exhibition opens in the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London ! Isaac Singer invents the first practical domestic sewing machine ! ! Worthing Local Board of Health established 1852 First free public library opens in Manchester ! Bognor gas-works opens ! West Sussex Gazette starts 1853 ! Compulsory Vaccination Act makes smallpox vaccination compulsory for all infants
1854 ! Crimean War begins when Britain, France & Turkey declare war on Russia
! East Grinstead railway station opens 1855 ! Florence Nightingale goes to the Crimea to nurse injured ! Southwick lock at Shoreham Harbour opens soldiers ! First football club in the world formed: Sheffield F.C. ! Daily Telegraph first published. ! Mrs Beeton's Cookery Book published ! Victoria Falls in Africa discovered by explorer David Livingstone 1856 ! First paraffin lamps introduced ! West Sussex (Police) Constabulary formed 1857 1858 ! Tin can opener invented in United States ! Petworth railway station opens 1859 ! Sussex County Lunatic Asylum (St Francis Hospital) opens at Haywards Heath 1860 ! 'Boneshaker' bicycle appears on the roads ! Sussex Artillery Volunteers formed ! Victoria railway station opens ! ! Chichester Cathedral spire collapses 1861 Prince Albert dies of typhoid ! Train crash at Clayton tunnel kills 23 ! Worthing Pier opens 1862 ! Louis Pasteur, French scientist, proves the connection between bacteria and disease ! Littlehampton railway station opens ! World's first underground railway built in London 1863 ! Football Association formed
! Bognor railway station opens 1864 ! Midhurst railway station opens ! 1865 ! Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published Bognor Pier opens ! ! East Grinstead Turnpike Trust disbanded Salvation Army founded as the Christian Mission in the East End of London ! Bognor Local Board of Health established 1866 ! Bognor Police station opens 1867 ! Reform Act allows more people, especially working classes in towns, to vote ! First Sainsbury's shop opens 1869 ! Suez Canal opens, improving trade links with India, South East Asia and Far East ! ! Forster's Education Act encourages schooling for 5 to 10 year olds Portslade gas-works opens 1870 ! ! Sussex Daily News starts publication Dr. Barnado opens his first home for poor boys in East End ! The Wey and Arun Canal closes 1871 ! Bank holidays are introduced ! Trade unions are legalised ! Bognor Observer starts publication 1872 ! First F.A. Cup Final; Wanderers beat Royal Engineers 1-0 at the Kennington Oval ! Typewriters (Danish) sold in Britain for first time
1873 ! Agricultural Children Act forbids employment of children under 8 in agricultural work
1874 ! First Boots shop opens 1875 ! Artisans and Labourers Dwelling Act allows slum housing to be demolished
1876 ! Queen Victoria given the title 'Empress of India' by Parliament ! Telephone invented by Alexander Graham Bell ! Last two sailing ships were built in Shoreham shipyards 1877 ! First Wimbledon tennis championships ! Petworth Turnpike Trust disbanded ! First international cricket match: Australia versus England in Melbourne ! Thomas Edison invents the phonograph, to play sound (music) recordings ! Chichester District Cycling Club founded 1878 ! First permanent electric street lights in the U.K., on Victoria Embankment, London 1879 ! Joseph Swan & Thomas Edison (U.S.) invent the electric light ! First telephone exchange in Britain opens in Glasgow 1880 ! Mundella's Education Act imposes compulsory school attendance ! Amateur Athletic Association formed 1882 ! Electric iron invented in United States ! Volk's railway opens in Brighton, the first electric railway in the world 1883 ! Boys' Brigade founded, in Glasgow ! First successful petrol-driven motor car made in France ! Salvation Army riots ('Skeleton Army') in Worthing 1884 ! 'Safety Bicycle' invented ! Oscar Wilde writes 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in Worthing ! Reform Act allows more people to vote, particularly agricultural labourers 1885 ! First electric trams, in Blackpool ! Dyke railway opens 1887 ! Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee 1888 ! Football League founded ! First meeting of West Sussex County Council 1889 ! World's first electric oven installed in a Swiss hotel ! Worthing receives its Royal Charter and becomes 1890 the Borough of Worthing ! Arundel Castle re-built 1890-1903
! Worthing Borough Fire Brigade established 1891 ! School fees abolished, making schooling free for all. ! The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle published ! First public display of films (motion pictures) in United States ! Shippam's meat paste factory opens in Chichester 1892 ! Sewerage scheme approved in Chichester
! Typhoid epidemic in Worthing kills 188 1893 ! Parish Councils, Rural District Councils & Urban District Council 1894 ! First petrol-driven motor car runs on Britain's roads, in Catford, London created by the Local Government Act ! Marks and Spencer shops founded ! First 'Cinematographe' film show in West Sussex, at Pier Pavilion, Worthing 1896 ! Wireless Telegraph was invented by Marconi ! Typhoid outbreak at Chichester ( also in 1897 & 1898) ! Brighton's Chain Pier destroyed in a storm
! Chichester to Selsey railway line (Hundred of Manhood & Selsey Tramway) opened 1897 ! Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee ! Dracula by Bram Stoker published 1898 ! War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells published
! School leaving age raised to 12 years 1899 ! Boer War begins (ends 1902) ! 1901 Queen Victoria dies
Victorian Timeline