THE VICTORIAN PERIOD

Paula Torrent – 4t d’ESOIE Salvador Vilarrasa

English

QUEEN VICTORIA

Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

• PREDECESSOR: William IV• SUCCESSOR: Edward VII• 64 years reign (she started when she was 18)

Empress of India• 25 years reign (she started when she was 57)

Queen Victoria was born the 24 May 1819 and she died the 22 January 1901, when she was 82.

Victoria married her cousin, Albert of Saxe-Cobourg and Gotha. She had 9 children.

WRITERS OF THE TIME

BRAM STROKER “Dracula”

ELISABETH GASKELL “Mary Barton”

GEORGE ELIOT “Daniel Deronda”

CHARLES DICKENS “Oliver Twist”

SCIENCE

DARWIN“The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man”

DISCOVERY AND INVENTIONS

TRANSANLANTIC TELEGRAPH CABLE

FIRST GLIDER by George Cayley

CHOCOLATE EASTER EGG by Vaughan & Co

JELLY BABIES by Herr Steinbeck

PENNY-FARTHING BICYCLE by James Stanley

SINGLE PIECE, CERAMIC TOILET by Thomas Twyford 

LIGHT BULB by Joseph Swan

TELEPHONE by Alexander Graham Bell 

OTHER THINGS

In October 1850 to promote the physical improvement of the town’s people, England created the first Olympic Games.

BIOGRAPHY

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_of_India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_era

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria

http://www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/~matsuoka/19th-authors.html

http://history.parkfieldict.co.uk/victorians/victorian-inventions-and-discoveries