1819 - Queen Victoria is born.

1837 - Princess Victoria becomes queen.

1839 - William Fox Talbot makes the first photographic prints.

1840 - Queen Victoria and Prince Albert marry.

1845 - Sir John Franklin's expedition to find the north west passage ends in disaster.

1851 - The Great Exhibition opens.

1853 - The Crimean war begins.

1857 - The Indian mutiny begins.

1861 - Prince Albert dies.

1879 - Joseph Swan invents the electric lightbulb.

1901 - Queen Victoria dies.