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| 1825 |
| | | The Joint-Stock Companies Act introduces regulations to protect investors in Britain | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Active (later called Locomotion) is the engine on the first passenger railway, between Stockton and Darlington | |
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| 1833 |
| | | The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers | |
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| 1837 |
| | | The first trains run between London and Birmingham on the railway designed by Robert Stephenson | |
|  | Primrose Hill Tunnel, c.1837
Guildhall Library
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| 1842 |
| | | Lord Shaftesbury's Mines Act makes it illegal for boys under 13, and women and girls of any age, to be employed underground in Britain | |
|  | Pit girls photographed in 1893 near Wigan
National Archives, Kew
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| 1842 |
| | | The young Friedrich Engels is sent from Germany to manage the family cotton-spinning factory in Manchester | |
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| 1844 |
| | | The first great entrepreneur of the railway age, George Hudson, becomes known as the Railway King | |
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| 1845 |
| | | Friedrich Engels, after running a textile factory in Manchester, publishes The Condition of the Working Class in England | |
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| 1848 |
| | | Gold is found on the property of John Sutter, at Coloma on the Sacramento river in California, and news of it launches the first gold rush | |
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| 1849 |
| | | The gold rush to California gathers pace during 1849, causing the prospectors to become known as 'forty-niners' | |
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