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1800

Act of Union with Ireland

1807

Abolition of the slave trade

1815

Duke of Wellington defeats Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo

1819

Acquisition of Singapore

1825

First railway opens

1833

The Slavery Abolition Act

1837

Queen Victoria becomes queen

1842

Defeat of Qing Dynasty in First Opium War

1845

Great Potato Famine

1851

The Great Exhibition

1854

A cholera epidemic

1856

Defeat of Russia in Crimean War

1861

Death of Prince Albert

1869

Suez Canal was opened

Disestablishment of the Irish Church

1871

Legalization of Trade Unions

1876

Queen Victoria becomes Empress of India

1882

The occupation of Egypt

1883

First electric railway

1898

Conquest of Sudan

Britain and a Growing Empire Timeline

The act united the Great Britain and Ireland to create the United Kingdom

General Gordon - A general killed during conquest of Sudan

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