Cut out and put these events in order (or cut out & laminate & use to make a human timeline!)
1880Education became compulsory / 1837
Victoria became Queen
1851
The Great Exhibition / 1879
Edison produces his first light bulb
1861
Prince Albert died / 1825
First passenger railway opened
1840
Victoria married Albert / 1819
Princess Victoria born
1901
Queen Victoria died / 1854
Crimean War began
1876
Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone / 1840
First postage stamp
1863
Football league started / 1842
Act of Parliament prevents women and children under 10 working in mines
1848
First Public Health Act / 1901
First vacuum cleaner
1867
First pedal bicycle / 1838
Fox Talbot invents photography
1891
All primary education free / 1887
Victoria’s Golden Jubilee
1845
Michael Faraday discovers diamagnetism (the ‘Faraday Effect’) / 1883
First skyscraper built in Chicago
1851
Sewing machine is invented / 1860
Nurse training school started by Florence Nightingale
1861
First horse drawn trams used in London / 1853
Livingstone ‘discovers’ Victoria Falls in Africa
1863
London Underground began / 1837
Samuel Morse showed how electric telegraph worked
1883
First skyscraper built in Chicago / 1897
Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
1899
School leaving age raised to 12 / 1876
Queen Victoria became Empress of India