DATE
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UNITED KINGDOM
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REST OF THE WORLD
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DUDLEY
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AGE
OF
ST JOHN’S
CHURCH
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ST JOHN’S CHURCH
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1846
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· The Treasury, Whitehall, London built
· Parliament repeals the Corn Laws, introducing free trade
· Railway mania reaches zenith
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· Potato famine reaches peak in Ireland - 1.5 million die
· Saxaphone invented, Belgium
· First act of segregation in South Africa
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6 years old
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· Rev Noott serves the church and area; day school, Sunday school, many other parish organisations
· Day school erected on land given by the Dudley family
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1847
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· British Factory Act restricts working day for women and children to 10 hours
· Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights
· Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre
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· First alarm clock, France
· Over 200,000 emigrants leave Ireland, most going to America
· Mormons found Salt Lake City
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7 years old
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1848
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· Cambridge University attempt to codify the rules of football
· Waterloo Station, London, opens
· Emily Bronte dies
· George Stephenson, locomotive pioneer. dies
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· Revolutions in Paris Louis Phillipe abdicates, Second Republic set up with Louis Napoleon nephew of Napoleon I as president
· Revolutions in other European countries
· Start of California gold rush
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8 years old
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1849
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· In mid 19th Century more than half of British children died before the age of 5. Average life expectancy among the working classes 17 years, 25 in the middle classes.
· Charles Dickens writes about crowd behaviour at public hangings
· Londoners receive 2 postal deliveries a day
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· Modern safety pin, USA
· The Kremlin, Moscow, completed
· Johann Strauss senior dies, Johann Strauss junior takes over the orchestra
· A. Fizeau (French) measures the speed of light
· J. Monier (French) produces reinforced concrete
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9 years old
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1850
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· 60% of the population still living on the land, but changing rapidly with industrialisation
· Britannia bridge, crossing Menai Strait to Anglesey
· William Wordsworth, poet, dies
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· Levi Strauss creates jeans, USA
· Bridge card game, Istanbul
· Modern guitar invented, Spain
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10 years old
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1851
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· London world’s largest city, 2.4 million people
· Great Exhibition in London
· Painter J.M.W. Turner dies aged 76
· Window tax abolished
· Mary Shelley (Frankenstein), dies
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· Invention of the lift, leads to development of multi-storey buildings, USA
· Louis Napoleon declares a second French empire
· First mass produced icecream on sale, USA, 25 cents a quart
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11 years old
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1852
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· Britain’s first free public lending library, Manchester
· First public toilet for women, London
· Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children admits first patient
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· David Livingstone explores Zambesi
· Devil’s Island penal colony opens
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12 years old
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· Vicarage built, on land adjoining the church
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1853
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· Anti-Vaccination Movement, England
· Dr John Snow collecting evidence that cholera spread by drinking water
· Britain spent £9.5 million on famine relief in Ireland
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· Corrugated iron invented, France
· First commercial cigarette factory, Havana
· Potato chips first prepared, New York
· Vincent Van Gogh born, Netherlands
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13 years old
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· The Vicar and Church Wardens of the Parish Church St Thomas’s appealed to the ratepayers for a rate of threepence in the pound to pay for the two district churches St John and St James.
· So far as is known this is the last church rate to be levied in Dudley
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1854
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· A Quaker deputation led by Joseph Sturge appeal to Tsar Nicholas I for peace
· Crimean War - Britain, France and Turkey against Russia
· Perforated stamps invented, UK
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· Britain and France declare war on Russia
· Battle of Balaclava (Charge of the Light Brigade) 500 out pf 700 men killed
· Republican Party formed in US
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14 years old
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1855
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· English nurse Florence Nightingale reforms nursing during Crimean War
· David Livingstone discovers the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi
· London sewers modernised after outbreak of cholera
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· Typhus and cholera account for more lives than battle wounds in the Crimea
· World Exhibition in Paris
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15 years old
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1856
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· Treaty of Paris ends Crimean War
· First British cigarette factory
· James Pierpoint writes ‘Jingle Bells’
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· Indian Mutiny against the British
· Fossil remains of Neanderthal man discovered, Rhineland
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16 years old
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