 1849 - 1861 (12 years)
| |
Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1850 | - 1850: Factories Act Extended - restricted all women and young people to no more than ten-and-a-half hours work a day.
|
| 2 | 1856 | - 1856: Crimean War begins. Ends 1856
|
| 3 | 1857 | - 1857: Divorce becomes obtainable through the civil courts in England & Wales (Matrimonial Causes Act)
|
| 4 | 1858 | - 1858: Start of the British Raj as India is delclared a Crown Colony
|
| 5 | 1861 | - 1861: - 1865 American civil war between the emancipationist North and the slaveowning South.
|
| 