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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1854 | |
| 2 | 1855 | - 1855: UK - John Snow, investigating London's piped water supply, showed graphically that cholera could be transmitted by water from a particular pump.
- 1855: UK - Palmerston's first government comes to power
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| 3 | 1856 | |
| 4 | 1857 | |
| 5 | 1858 | |
| 6 | 1859 | |
| 7 | 1860 | |
| 8 | 1861 | |
| 9 | 1862 | |
| 10 | 1863 | |
| 11 | 1864 | |
| 12 | 1865 | |
| 13 | 1866 | |
| 14 | 1867 | |
| 15 | 1868 | |
| 16 | 1869 | |
| 17 | 1870 | |
| 18 | 1871 | |
| 19 | 1872 | - 1872: UK - Secret voting is introduced for elections
- 1872: UK - Parliament passes the Scottish Education Act
- 1872: USA - A.M. Ward issues the first mail-order catalog.
- 1872: UK - J.S. Risdon patents the metal windmill.
- 1872: UK - Period to 1896 sees three economic slumps and two recoveries, said to be due to imported foodstuffs from US depressing Britain's agricultural business
- 1872: USA - Levi Strauss discovered rugged trousers for miners made out of sturdy brown canvas. Once this resource was exhausted, he turned to denim, which he dyed blue to become what is known now as blue jeans
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| 20 | 1873 | |
| 21 | 1874 | |
| 22 | 1875 | - 1875: UK - Benjamin Disraeli purchases a controlling interest for Britain in the Suez Canal.
- 1875: UK - Parliament passes R.A. Cross's Conservative social reforms
- 1875: UK - Collapse of British agriculture due to cheap grain from US, wheat acreage falls by nearly a million acres
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| 23 | 1876 | |
| 24 | 1877 | |
| 25 | 1878 | |
| 26 | 1879 | |
| 27 | 1880 | - 1880: UK - William Gladstone establishes his second Liberal government
- 1880: South Africa - The first Anglo-Boer War begins
- 1880: UK - British forests now decimated except for bits of the New Forest and the Forest of Dean.
- 1880: UK - Number of agricultural labourers reduced by about 100,000 in last 10 years
- 1880: UK - Englishman John Milne invents the modern seismograph.
- 1880: UK - The British Perforated Paper Company invents a form of toilet paper.
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| 28 | 1881 | |
| 29 | 1882 | |
