| British Monarchs | |||||||||||||
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| Victoria 1837 to 1901 | |||||||||||||
| What was happening in the world in 1869 | |||||||||||||
| Disestablishment of Irish Church | |||||||||||||
| Imprisonment for debt abolished in Britain | |||||||||||||
| Nov 18: Suez Canal opens | |||||||||||||
| Cutty Sark launched | |||||||||||||
| Transcontinental railway completed in America | |||||||||||||
| Ballbearings, celluloid, margarine, washing machine all invented | |||||||||||||
| USA puchase Alaska of the Russians | |||||||||||||