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| 1841 |
| | | With a teetotallers' rail trip for 570 people, Thomas Cook introduces the notion of the package tour | |
|  | Travel poster for Cook's Tours, 1904
National Archives, Kew
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| 1841 |
| | | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Ballads and Other Poems includes 'The Village Blacksmith' and 'The Wreck of the Hesperus' | |
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| 1841 |
| | | US social reformer Catherine Beecher publishes an influential book to empower women, Treatise on Domestic Economy | |
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| c. 1841 |
| | | Britain sends four naval ships up the river Niger to make anti-slavery treaties with local kings | |
|  | Anti-slavery treaty with African chiefs
National Archives, Kew
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| 1842 |
| | | Robert Peel's Conservative administration reintroduces income tax in Britain, at a fixed level of approximately 3% | |
|  | Victoria and Albert pay income tax in a Punch cartoon of 1842
National Archives, Kew
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| 1842 |
| | | Lord Shaftesbury's Mines Act makes it illegal for boys under 13, and women and girls of any age, to be employed underground in Britain | |
|  | Pit girls photographed in 1893 near Wigan
National Archives, Kew
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| 1842 |
| | | The British abandon Kabul, losing most of the garrison force in the withdrawal to India and bringing to an end the first Anglo-Afghan war | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The young Friedrich Engels is sent from Germany to manage the family cotton-spinning factory in Manchester | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The success of the opera Nabucco, premiered in Milan, is a turning point in the fortunes of Giuseppe Verdi | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell pioneers mass political demonstrations, which become known as 'monster meetings' | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Edwin Pearce Christy launches the Virginia Minstrels, later to become America's most popular minstrel show under the name Christy's Minstrels | |
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| 1842 |
| | | English poet Robert Browning publishes a vivid narrative poem about the terrible revenge of The Pied Piper of Hamelin | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Austrian physicist Christian Doppler explains the acoustic effect now known by his name | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The publication of the first part of the satirical novel Dead Souls, by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, proves a sensation in Russia | |
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| 1842 |
| | | US showman P.T. Barnum draws huge crowds to the New York premises where his attractions include 'General Tom Thumb', a 4-year-old midget | |
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| 1842 |
| | | Honoré de Balzac begins publication of a collected edition of his fiction under the title La Comédie Humaine | |
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| 1842 |
| | | English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome | |
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| 1842 |
| | | US secretary of state Daniel Webster and British negotiator Lord Ashburton resolve US-Canadian boundary disputes | |
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| 1842 |
| | | The First Opium War ends with the island of Hong Kong, and extensive new trading rights, ceded to Britain in the Treaty of Nanking | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The Brunel engineers, father and son, finish an 18-year project tunnelling under the Thames between Wapping and Rotherhithe | |
|  | View of the Thames tunnel
London's Transport Museum
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| 1843 |
| | | The Flying Dutchman is the first of Richard Wagner's major operas to be staged, with its premiere in Dresden | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The British take control of the existing Boer republic and proclaim Natal a British protectorate | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Edgar Allan Poe publishes The Pit and the Pendulum, a cliff-hanging tale of terror at the hands of the Spanish Inquisition | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Henry Cole commissions 1000 copies of the world's first Christmas card, designed for him by John Calcott Horsley | |
|  | Cole's Christmas card
Victoria and Albert Museum
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| 1843 |
| | | The Great Migration across the north American continent to the Pacific establishes the Oregon Trail | |
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| 1843 |
| | | The statue of Nelson, by E.H. Baily, is placed on top of its column in Trafalgar Square | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Isambard Kingdom Brunel launches the Great Britain, the first iron steamship designed for the transatlantic passenger trade | |
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| 1843 |
| | | Mendelssohn's overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, amplified now with incidental music, is greeted as a masterpiece at a performance of the play in Potsdam | |
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