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Event Date Event

Gold discovered in Australia
1851 Great Exhibition
  1852 Napoleon III Emperor of France
Gladstone’s first Budget 1853  
  1854 Start of Crimean War
"Daily Telegraph" first published 1855  

Livingstone crosses Africa
1856 Victoria Cross instituted

Edmund Coulthurst partner
1857 Indian Mutiny

Big Ben cast
1858 The Crown assumed government of India

“Origin of Species” published
1859  

American Civil War
1861 Death of Prince Albert
 
  1862 Red Cross founded
London Underground opened 1863  

Lister’s antiseptic surgery
1865 End of American Civil War and abolition of slavery in U.S.A.
 

Nobel develops dynamite
1866 Geneva Convention originated
 
  1867 Reform Act
Death of Edward Marjoribanks 1868
Last public execution
Suez Canal opens 1869  

Papal Infallibility announced
1870 Edmund Antrobus dies

Death of Charles Dickens
Bank Holiday Act passed

Stanley meets Livingstone
1871
Angela Burdett-Coutts created Baroness
  1872 Last voyage of the Mary Celeste
Lord Archibald Campbell partner 1873
Birth of Caruso

Coutts & Co now employes 75 clerks 
1875 Britain buys shares in Suez Canal

Webb swims the Channel (22 hours)

Bell telephone
1876 Queen Victoria declared Empress of India

Custer’s Last Stand
WM Coulthurst dies

GJ Marjoribanks
1877
EM & EC Marjoribanks retire

Edison’s first gramophone
RR Pym, WR Malcolm & RL Antrobus partners 1878  
  1880 1st Boer War
Angela Burdett-Coutts marries & loses fortune 1881
Pasteur and immunisation
The Ashes established 1882  

Greenwich meridian
1884 Statue of Liberty complete

First motorcycle patented
1885 Professional football legalised
  1886 First successful petrol-driven car patented by Benz
Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee 1887  
  1889 Eiffel Tower complete
First moving picture 1890  

First American Express travellers cheque cashed
1891 RL Antrobus dies

Bank becomes Unlimited Liability Company
1892 Panama Canal financial scandal in France

Death of Tchaikovsky
1893 Labour Party founded

Ford produced his first motor car
Manchester Ship Canal opens 1894  
  1895 Marconi’s radio
Hawaii annexed by U.S.A. 1897  
  1898 Spanish-American War

HL Antrobus dies
1899 2nd Boer War

HB Money-Coutts becomes partner