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Events relating to england
The 18-year-old Victoria comes to the throne in Britain, beginning the long Victorian era
Work begins on Charles Barry's spectacular design for London's new Houses of Parliament
The Whig party in Britain begin referring to themselves as Liberals
The first trains run between London and Birmingham on the railway designed by Robert Stephenson
Charles Dickens' first novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838)
Brunel's Great Western, a wooden paddle-steamer, arives in New York the day after the Sirius, with the record for an Atlantic crossing already reduced to 15 days
The London Prize Ring rules disallow kicking, gouging, head-butting and biting in the sport of boxing
The People's Charter, with its six political demands, launches the Chartist movement in England
J.M.W. Turner paints an icon of British art, The Fighting Téméraire
Pugin designs St Chad's in Birmingham, completed in 1841 and the first cathedral built in England since Christopher Wren's St Paul's
Seven Manchester merchants and mill-owners found the Anti-Corn Law League
In the Bedchamber Crisis, Queen Victoria shows steely determination in refusing to dismiss politically committed ladies of her bedchamber
Queen Victoria gives Kew Gardens to the nation, as a botanic garden of scientific importance
Rowland Hill introduces in Britain the world's first postage stamps - the Penny Black and Two Pence Blue
Victoria marries Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and soon, with nine children, they provide the very image of the ideal Victorian family
Robert Peel replaces Lord Melbourne as prime minister after a Conservative victory in the British general election
Fox Talbot patents the 'calotype', introducing the negative-positive process that becomes standard in photography
With a teetotallers' rail trip for 570 people, Thomas Cook introduces the notion of the package tour
Robert Peel's Conservative administration reintroduces income tax in Britain, at a fixed level of approximately 3%
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
The young Friedrich Engels is sent from Germany to manage the family cotton-spinning factory in Manchester
English poet Robert Browning publishes a vivid narrative poem about the terrible revenge of The Pied Piper of Hamelin
English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome
The Brunel engineers, father and son, finish an 18-year project tunnelling under the Thames between Wapping and Rotherhithe
Henry Cole commissions 1000 copies of the world's first Christmas card, designed for him by John Calcott Horsley
