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