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Events relating to england
English caricaturist George Cruikshank publishes The Drunkard's Children in support of the developing Temperance movement
English art students Rossetti, Holman Hunt and Millais form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Branwell, Emily and Anne Brontë die within a period of eight months
Prince Albert is the driving force behind the plans for a Great Exhibition in London
Charles Dickens begins the publication in monthly numbers of David Copperfield, his own favourite among his novels
Expelled from Germany after the year of revolutions, Marx makes his home in tolerant London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts his sister Christina in The Girlhood of Mary Virgin
Queen Victoria knights her favourite painter of animals, Edwin Landseer
Alfred Tennyson's elegy for a friend, In Memoriam, captures perfectly the Victorian mood of heightened sensibility
English cartoonist John Tenniel begins a 50-year career drawing for the satirical magazine Punch
Marian Evans meets the journalist George Henry Lewes in William Jeff's bookshop in Burlington Arcade
Thomas Cubitt completes Osborne House, designed as a quiet retreat for Victoria and Albert on the Isle of Wight
English photographer Frederick Scott Archer publishes the details of his collodion process, a marked improvement on the earlier calotype negative
English textile magnate Titus Salt begins to build Saltaire as a model industrial village for his workers
Joseph Paxton's Crystal Palace, built in London in six months, is the world's first example of prefabricated architecture
Marian Evans (her new spelling of her name) moves to London and gets a job as subeditor of Westminster Review
The Great Exhibition attracts six million visitors to London's new Crystal Palace in a period of only six months
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert are entered in the ten-yearly census, and were staying on the night in question in Buckingham Palace
Lord John Russell's Whig administration collapses, and Lord Derby follows him as a Conservative prime minister at the head of a coalition government
Queen Victoria opens the new Houses of Parliament, designed by Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin
The Crystal Palace is dismantled in Hyde Park, to be re-erected south of the river Thames at Sydenham
Lord Aberdeen, leader of the 'Peelite' minority of the Conservative party, forms a new coalition government with the Liberals
London physician Peter Mark Roget publishes his dictionary of synonyms, the Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
G.H. Lewes leaves his serially unfaithful wife and begins an affair with Marian Evans
Marian Evans and G.H. Lewes flout British convential morality by travelling openly to Germany together
