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A.D. 1330Year: A.D.1861A.D. 1930
 
 

1857

Historical
Railway extended to Weymouth
Historical
Indian Mutiny
Historical
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act
Literary
Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Literary
Hughes' Tom Brown's School days
Literary
Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species
Author: Dickens, Charles
Dickens meets Ellen Ternan, a young actress and begins relationship
Author: Trollope, Anthony, Literary
Trollope's Barchester Towers
Author: Bronte, Charlotte, Literary
C. Brontë's The Professor published
Author: Eliot, George, Literary
Eliot's Scenes of Clerical Life

1858

Literary
Ballantyne's Coral Island
Literary
English Woman's Journal begins
Author: Dickens, Charles
Dickens seperates from his wife. Begins public readings from his works

1859

Historical
Rise of movement for Home Rule in Ireland
Literary
Darwin's The Origin of Species published
Literary
Smiles' Self Help published
Literary
Mill's On Liberty
Author: Dickens, Charles
Dickens founds All the Year Round and closes Household Words
Author: Collins, Wilkie, Literary
Collins' The Woman in White published
Author: Eliot, George, Literary
Eliot's Adam Bede published
Author: Dickens, Charles, Literary
Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities in both weekly and monthly parts
 

1860

Literary
Cornhill Magazine begins
Author: Dickens, Charles
Dickens' The Uncommercial Traveller. Dickens moves permanently from London to Gad's Hill
Author: Eliot, George, Literary
Eliot's The Mill on the Floss published
Author: Dickens, Charles, Literary
1860-61: Dickens' Great Expectations in weekly parts
Author: Collins, Wilkie, Literary
Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White

1861

Historical
Death of Prince Consort
Historical
American Civil War begins
Literary
Beeton's Book of Household Management
Literary
Wood's East Lynne
Author: Bronte, Anne
Brontë's father, Rev. Patrick Brontë, dies
Author: Bronte, Charlotte
Brontë's father, Rev. Patrick Brontë, dies
Author: Bronte, Anne
Brontë's father, Rev. Patrick Brontë, dies
Author: Eliot, George, Literary
G. Eliot's Silas Marner published

1862

Literary
Braddon's Lady Audley's Secret
Author: Hardy, Thomas
Hardy draughtsman in London
Author: Collins, Wilkie, Literary
Collins' No Name
Author: Arnold, Matthew, Literary
Rossetti's Goblin Market
Author: Tennyson, Alfred, Literary
Tennyson's Idylls of the King
 

1863

Historical
The Oxford Declaration published
Literary
Kingsley's The Water Babies
Author: Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Hopkins enters Balliol College, Oxford University
Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thackeray dies on 24th December
Author: Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thackeray's The Roundabout Papers
Author: Eliot, George, Literary
G. Eliot's Romola published

1864

Literary
Newman's Apologia Pro Vita Sua
Author: Dickens, Charles, Literary
1864-65: Dickens' Our Mutual Friend in monthly parts
Author: Tennyson, Alfred, Literary
Tennyson's Idylls of the Hearth
Author: Trollope, Anthony, Literary
Trollope's Can You Forgive Her? (-1865)

1865

Historical
Women's Suffrage Campaign
Historical
Transatlantic cable laid
Historical
Joseph Lister establishes antiseptic surgery
Historical
Completion of St. Pancras' railway station
Literary
Arnold's Essays in Criticism
Author: Carroll, Lewis
Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 

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