• 1815: End of Napoleonic Wars | • 1825: 1st railway opens (Stockton - Darlington) | • 1829: Metropolitan Police founded | • 1832: Morse invents Electric Telegraph | • 1837: Queen Victoria crowned | • 1838: National Gallery founded | • 1839: Digestive biscuit invented | • 1840: Queen Victora & Prince Albert marry | • 1842: Irish "Potato Famine" starts | • 1847: British Museum founded | • 1848: Marx & Engels write Communist Manifesto | • 1851: Great Exhibition opens in Hyde Park | • 1854: Start of Crimean War | • 1859: Darwin's Origin of Species published | • 1861: American Civil War begins |