Midterm #2 Dates

First Passenger Railway

1830

Reform Act expands vote

1832

"The Lady of Shalott"

1832

Slavery Abolition Act

1836

Victoria's coronation

1837

Brownings elope to Italy

1846

Jane Eyre/Wuthering Heights

1847

First Pre-Raphaelite exhibition

1849

In Memoriam/The Prelude

1850

Tennyson made poet laureate

1850

Great Exhibition in Hyde Park

1851

"Dover Beach"

1851

The Idea of a University

1852

North and South

1854

Origin of Species

1859

Goblin Market

1862

Culture and Anarchy

1869

Wilde's American tour

1882

Importance of Being Earnest

1895

1900

Wilde dies in Paris

1901

Death of Victoria