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Reign of
Victoria
1837-1901

1838
Charles Dickens publishes
Oliver Twist

1840
Rebuilding begins on
Houses of Parliament

1845
Irish potato famine begins

1848
Karl Marx and Frederick Engels publish the Communist Manifesto

1854-1856
Crimean War


Victoria		  
Charles Dickens

Sir Charles Barry		  
The Mission of Mercy: Florence Nightingale
at Scutari


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