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Historical timeline
1692 - 1750
1751 - 1800
1801 - 1850
1851 - 1900
1901 - 1950
1951 - Today
| 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 |