Victorian timeline (mostly Britain)

• 1800 Volta demonstrates battery to Napoleon
• 1801 British defeat French at Battle of the Nile
• 1802 George III presents the Rosetta Stone to the British Museum
• 1802 first steam locomotive
• 1819 Victoria born
• 1819 SS Savannah first steam ship to cross Atlantic
• 1920 George IV becomes king
• 1820 Ampere notices link between electricity and magnetism
• 1820 Napoleon dies at St. Helena, age 51
• 1820 American frontiersman Daniel Boone dies
• 1824 Burma invades parts of British occupied India
• 1824 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals founded in Britain
• 1825 Sir Robert Smirke begin of massive neo-classical expansion of British Museum buildings (original construction plans completed around 1850)
• 1825 First steam railroad in England
• 1826 British push Burmese from India
• 1826 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson die
• 1827 Beethoven dies in Vienna, age 56
• 1829 Catholic Relief Act allows Catholics to sit in Parliament.
• 1829 London's first police force founded by Robert Peel
• 1829 Britain bans Indian widows throwing themselves on husband's funeral pyres
• 1830 George IV dies, William IV crowned
• 1830 Faraday invents electric generator, electric motor
• 1832 Reform Act give property owning men the right to vote
• 1833 Britain claims Falkland Islands
• 1834 Slavery abolished in Britain
• 1834 Opening of Madame Tussaud's wax museum in London
• 1836 Davy Crockett and Sam Bowie die when Mexican army takes Alamo
• 1837 William IV dies, Victoria becomes Queen of Great Britain
• 1837 Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist
• 1840 Victoria marries Price Albert
• 1840 Opium Wars between China and Britain begin
• 1851 Crystal Palace erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition
• 1889 first elections for the newly created London City Council
• 1890 first commercial dry cell battery mass produced
• 1900 World Exposition in Paris
• 1905 the women's suffrage movement become increasingly militant, staging street protests and engaging in minor vandalism
• 1918 women over 30 given right to vote