The Victorian Website

1837 Queen Victoria becomes Queen at the age of 18.
1840 The first postage stamps (Penny Post) came into use.
1840 Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert.
1842 The Mines Act stops children under 10 from working in the
mines.
1844 The Factory Act stops children between 8 and 13 working
more than 6.5 hours a
Day.
1850s The first post boxes were built.
1851 The Great Exhibition opened at Crystal Palace by Prince
Albert.
Census showed just over half of Britain's population (of 20
million) lived in towns
Jacob Fussell, in the USA, invents 1851 Ice Cream.
1854 Crimean War
1854 A cholera epidemic led to demands for a clean water supply.