Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey

Euston Railway station opens - first in London

Queen Victoria moves into the first Buckingham Palace

Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales - Registration Districts were formed covering several parishes; initially they had the same boundaries as the Poor Law boundaries set up in 1834

William IV dies - accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)

Pitman introduces his shorthand system

P&O Founded

Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

The Alamo falls to Mexican troops - death of Davy Crockett

Samuel Colt patented the 'revolver'

Telford's Menai Straits Bridge opened ? considered the world's first modern suspension bridge

First Potato famine in Ireland

Christmas becomes a national holiday

First railway boom period starts in Britain construction of Great Western Railway

Slavery abolished in British possessions

'Tolpuddle Martyrs' transported (to Australia) for Trades Union activities

Babbage invents forerunner of the computer

Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9

Britain invades the Falkland Islands

Reform Bill passed ? Representation of the People Act

Electoral Registers introduced

Electric telegraph invented by Morse

'New' London Bridge opens (replaced 1973) ? old bridge (which had existed for over 600 years) then demolished

James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole

A list of all parish registers dating prior to 1813 compiled

George Stephenson's Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened by the Duke of Wellington ? first mail carried by rail, and first death on the railway as William Huskisson, a leading politician, is run over!

Revolution in France, fall of Charles X and the Bourbons ? Louis Philippe (the Citizen King) on the throne

Uprisings and agitation across Europe: the Netherlands are split into Holland and Belgium

George Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials (it was the only one to complete the trial!)

First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race

London Metropolitan Police Force formed, nicknamed 'Bobbies' after Sir Robert Peel

Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind

St Katharine Docks in London opened (designed by Thomas Telford)

Ohm's Law published

Stockton to Darlington Railway opens ? world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains

National Gallery in London opens to the public

Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) founded (called the 'National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck' until 1854)

RSPCA established

Portland cement patented

US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts (the 'Monroe Doctrine')

New laws concerning marriage by license ? 'very troublesome' according to some the Act was repealed all in a hurry at the beginning of the next session

Peel begins penal reforms ? death penalty abolished for over 100 crimes

Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School

Rubberised waterproof material produced by MacIntosh

Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society

Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena

Faraday publishes 'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation'

Constable paints 'The Hay Wain'

Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her ? George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her ? Caroline is virtually acquitted because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords

Regent's Canal in London opens

Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent

Cato Street Conspiracy ? plot to assissinate British cabinet

Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition

Peterloo Massacre at Manchester ? a large, orderly group of 60,000 meets at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester ? demand Parliamentary Reform ? mounted troops charge on the meeting, killing 11 people and and maiming many others

SS 'Savannah' first steamship to cross Atlantic reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 Days reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 Days mostly under sail)

Primitive bicycle, the Dandy Horse, becomes popular

Britain returns to gold standard

Singapore founded by Sir Stamford Raffles

'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its length

Manchester cotton spinners' strike

March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended

Constable painted 'Flatford Mill'