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| T Carlyle | History | Culture |
| 1834
| Moves to 5 Cheyne Row, Chelsea, London.
Begins French Revolution, Edward Irving dies. 'Despondent'
| New Poor Law Houses of Parliament fire - TC witnesses | Coleridge dies
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| 1835
| Vol 1 of French Revolution destroyed in Mill's house. Meets Wordsworth.
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| Fox-Talbot first photographs
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| 1836
| Sartor published in Boston.
| 1836-48 Chartist Movement First trains in London | Nature by Emerson. Dickens: Sketches by Boz and
Pickwick Papers
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| 1837
| French Revolution published. Lectures on German Literature. Helen Mitchell
engaged as servant. Jane visits Cotswolds and Oxford with Sterlings
| William IV dies. Victoria succeeds
| Dickens: Oliver Twist
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| 1838
| Sartor published in Britain in book form. Essay on Scott.
Carlyles' portraits by Samuel Laurence
| Atlantic steamship service
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| 1839
| Chartism, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays
| Crichton Royal Asylum opens, Dumfries
Chartist Riots First Afghan War
| Longfellow Voices of the Night
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| 1840 | Marriage of Victoria and Albert
James Crichton-Browne born. | Penny Post started
Thomas Hardy born | |
| 1841
| Heroes and Hero-worship
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| Emerson Self-reliance, Browning Pippa Passes
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| 1842
| Jane's mother dies, 5th Feb.
Past and Present begun Jane visits Bullers
| Chartist Riots
| Tennyson, Poems Browning, Dramatic Lyrics |
| 1843
| Past and Present published Jane first meets Lady Baring, (later Ashburton) |
| Tennyson Locksley Hall.
Dickens Christmas Carol Ruskin Modern Painters
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| 1844
| John Sterling dies. Friendship with Lady Baring (later Ashburton) begins.
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| 1845
| Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches.
| 1845/46:Starvation in Ireland.
Corn Laws repealed
| Newman converted to Roman Catholicism |
| 1846
| Visits Ireland. Expands Cromwell. Marital problems. 'Richest writer in England'
| Repeal of Corn Laws Train service London to Ecclefechan | Edward Lear Book of Nonsense.
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| 1848 | Outbreak of cholera.
Chartist Demonstration Marx and Engels: Communist Manifesto | Geraldine Jewsbury: The Half-Sisters
Thackeray: Vanity Fair
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| 1849
| Meets Froude. Tours Ireland. Negro Question.
Jane revisits Haddington
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| Dickens David Copperfield
Froude Nemesis of Faith
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| 1850
| Cromwell - 4 Vols. Latter Day Pamphlets. Meets Peel.
Domestic unhappiness. The Bath House Ball
| Peel dies.
| Wordsworth dies, aged 80.
Tennyson In Memoriam
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| 1851
| Life of Sterling
| Great Exhibition, Crystal Palace
| Ruskin Stones of Venice |
| 1852
| Commences Frederick the Great. Visits Germany To Malvern for 'water cure' Jane visits Sherborne House. |
| Thackeray Henry Esmond, Roget Thesaurus. Dickens Bleak
House
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| 1853
| Mother dies 25 Dec. Soundproof room built
| 1853-6 Crimean War
| Surtees Mr Sponges' Sporting Tour
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| 1854-6
| Jane unhappy, starts journal. TC always at Bath House.
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| Dickens Hard Times, 1854 dedicated to TC.
C Bronte Villette Gaskell North and South C Kingsley Westward Ho!
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| 1856 | 21 June-blue marks on Jane's wrists | Crimean War ends | Froude History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to defeat of the Spanish Armada,12vols.-1870 |
| 1857
| Lady Harriet Ashburton dies, 4th May, in Paris.
| 1857-8 Indian Mutiny
| Dickens Little Dorrit, Flaubert Madame Bovary
Trollope Barchester Towers.
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| 1858
| Visits Germany. Frederick, vols 1 and 2
Lord Ashburton re-marries
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| 1859 | Darwin: Origin of Species
Smiles: Self-Help Mill: On Liberty Wagner: Tristan und Isolde | ||
| 1860 | Collins: Woman in White | ||
| 1861
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| American Civil War
| Macaulay History of England,
George Eliot Silas Marner. Dickens: Great Expectations
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| 1862 | Mill J S Utilitarianism
Ruskin: Unto this Last | ||
| 1863
| Jane has neuralgia, left arm.
October: Jane falls in street, injured. Frederick vol3
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| Thackeray dies
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| 1864
| Jane seriously ill; to St Leonards, then Thornhill. Returns London,Oct.1 Frederick vol4
Lord Ashburton dies
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| Gaskell Wives and Daughters
Dickens: Our Mutual Friend
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| 1865
| Frederick, vols 5-6. Jane has neuralgia, right arm | President Lincoln assassinated | Ruskin Sesame and Lilies
Dickens Our Mutual Friend. Carroll: Alice in Wonderland
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| 1866
| 2 April: Inaugural Address as Rector, University of Edinburgh.
21 April:Jane dies, Hyde Park. Reminiscences. Shooting Niagara
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| Tolstoy War and Peace.
Gaskell: Wives and Daughters
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| 1866-7
| Prepares Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle. | Second Reform Bill, 1867 | 1867 Matthew Arnold: Dover Beach
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| 1868 | 1868 Niece Mary Aitken comes to live with him. | Disraeli Prime Minister
National telegraph network | Collins: The Moonstone |
| 1869 | Suez Canal opens | ||
| 1872 | Hardy: Under the Greenwood Tree
Butler Erewhon | ||
| 1875 | Public Health Act | Trollope: The Way We Live Now | |
| 1877 | Carlyle visits Dr James Crichton-Browne | ||
| 1879
| Brother John dies Mary Aitken marries cousin Alex Carlyle.
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| 1880
| Geraldine Jewsbury dies
| War with Transvaal
Gladstone Prime Minister
| George Eliot dies.
James Portrait of a Lady
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| 1881
| Dies 5th February Reminiscences published
| Death of Disraeli
| Stevenson Treasure Island
Ibsen Ghosts James Portrait of a Lady
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| 1882
| Froude publishes Vol 1 of biography
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| 1883
| Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle published
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| 1884
| Froude, Vol 2 published
| Third Reform Act.
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