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1 day ago · In 1900, a year before she died, Queen Victoria visited Dublin, provoking a ferocious debate within Ireland. Newsreel footage at the time shows that thousands of people turned up to meet the ...
1 day ago · Queen Victoria took up residence in Buckingham Palace, the first reigning British monarch to make this, rather than St James's Palace, her London home. Politics and law. Britain had four prime ministers during the 1830s. As the decade began, Tory Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington led parliament.
1 day ago · On 6 June 1859, Queen Victoria signed letters patent to form the separate colony of Queensland as a self-governing Crown colony with responsible government. Brisbane was selected as the capital city. On 10 December 1859, a proclamation was read by George Bowen , the first Governor of Queensland , formally establishing Queensland as a separate colony from New South Wales. [46]
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6 hours ago · The Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's rule between 1837 and 1901 which signified the height of the British Industrial Revolution and the apex of the British Empire. Scholars debate whether the Victorian period—as defined by a variety of sensibilities and political concerns that have come to be associated with the Victorians—actually begins with the passage of the Reform Act 1832 .
6 hours ago · The Scoop Entertainment Newsletter. ( NewsNation) — A California auction house has sold a royal collection that includes clothes and other items once belonging to Princess Diana for more than $5 million. The collection included more than 50 items that belonged to Diana, the largest amount since a 1997 auction she held.
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6 hours ago · Lin Zexu's "memorial" (摺奏) written directly to Queen Victoria By 1838, the British were selling roughly 1,400 tons of opium per year to China. Legalization of the opium trade was the subject of ongoing debate within the Chinese administration, but a proposal to legalise the narcotic was repeatedly rejected, and in 1838 the government began to actively sentence Chinese drug traffickers to death.
