British Monarchs

Victoria  1837 to 1901

What was happening in the World in 1855

Jan 1: Registration of births, marriages & deaths made compulsory in Scotland

First London pillar boxes

London sewers modernised after fourth major outbreak of cholera

Florence Nightingale introduces hygiene into military hospitals in Crimea

Cellulose nitrate, first synthetic plastic material, invented by Alexander Parkes

Livingstone finds the Victoria Falls

Trollope The Warden

Longfellow The Song of Hiawatha