| Year |
Events in Powys |
Events in Britain |
Events in the world |
| 1837 |
A new hot-blast furnace
for iron smelting is introduced at Ynyscedwyn |
Queen
Victoria comes to the throne |
Papineau protests against British
treatment of French Canadians |
| 1838 |
Llanfyllin workhouse is built; Branches
of the Chartist movement are set up in Newtown and in Llanidloes |
The Public Record
Office is established |
Britain is involved in a war in Afghanistan |
| 1840 |
Mary Tibbott of Llanbrynmair is tried
for stealing flannel |
The penny post is
introduced |
Civil war in Colombia breaks out |
| 1845 |
Constable Jones is on the beat around
Four Crosses |
Brunel builds the
first propeller-driven steamship |
The start of the Irish famine |
| 1847 |
Life expectancy in Brecon is estimated
at around 30 |
Marx and Engels publish
The Communist Manifesto |
War of the Sonderbund in Switzerland |
| 1849 |
The case of Elizabeth Grist of Abermule
comes before the Quarter Sessions in Welshpool |
Dickens publishes
David Copperfield |
Britain conquers the Punjab region
of northern India |
| 1850 |
Orders are made by the magistrates
in Breconshire for giving Superintendent Constables a proper uniform |
Tennyson becomes poet
laureate |
The British raid Tendeba in the Gambia
region of West Africa |
| 1851 |
The 1851 census shows that the population
of Welshpool has decreased due to "the removal of flannel manufacture
to Newtown" |
The Great Exhibition
is held in the Crystal Palace in London |
War between France and Vietnam begins |
| 1853 |
The Duhonw flood causes devastation
in the Builth Wells area |
The Royal Photographic
Society is formed |
The Crimean War begins (Britain and
France at war with Russia) |
| 1854 |
An epidemic of cholera strikes Brecon |
The Chartist Movement
ends |
Further fighting in the Crimea |
| 1855 |
Richard Pugh is the blacksmith at
Park Street, Newtown |
Browning’s Men
and Women is published |
The explorer Livingstone arrives at
Victoria Falls in Africa |
| 1857 |
The Radnorshire Constabulary is established |
Matrimonial Causes
Act establishes divorce courts |
The Indian Mutiny (An Indian revolt
against British rule in India) |
| 1859 |
The Llanidloes and Newtown Railway
is opened; Pryce Jones of Newtown starts the world’s first mail order company |
Darwin’s Origin
of Species is published |
The Spanish-Moroccan War breaks out |
| 1860 |
The Machynlleth workhouse is opened |
The first British
horse-drawn passenger trams appear in the streets |
Abraham Lincoln becomes President
of the United States of America |
| 1861 |
The railway comes to Knighton |
Death of Prince Albert,
Queen Victoria's husband |
Victor Emmanuel II becomes the first
king of a united Italy |
| 1865 |
Lead mining begins at Van |
Lewis Carroll’s Alice
in Wonderland is published |
End of the American Civil War |
| 1868 |
The Montgomeryshire Infirmary opens |
Transportation of
criminals is ended |
Revolution in Venezuela (South America) |
| 1870 |
Francis Kilvert, curate of Clyro,
starts to keep a diary |
Education Act passed |
Tientsin Massacre in China |
| 1871 |
Free Street railway station |
Bank holidays are
introduced; Trade unions are legalized |
Bismarck becomes the first Chancellor
of the newly created Germany |
| 1874 |
Robert Jones of Llanfair Caereinion
is sent to gaol for 3 months with hard labour for larceny |
The Factory Act introduces
a maximum 10 hour working day |
The French occupy Hanoi in Vietnam |
| 1876 |
A teacher at Ynscedwyn Board School
records that the school has no lighting |
The Elementary Education
Act ensured that all children received instruction in reading, writing and
arithmetic |
Queen Victoria becomes Empress of
India |
| 1881 |
Construction begins on the first large
masonry dam in Britain at Lake Vrynwy |
Flogging is banned
by the British Navy |
The first Boer War is fought in South
Africa; Tsar Alexander II is assassinated in Russia |
| 1882 |
Snow storms prevent children from
attending school at Pantycrai |
Maxim
patents the machine gun |
The British occupy Egypt |
| 1888 |
A teacher at Gungrog Road School in
Welshpool records that the boys had to produce examples of sewing and knitting
for an examination |
Oscar Wilde’s The
Happy Prince is published |
William II becomes the German emperor |
| 1891 |
See our forthcoming project, Powys:
A Day in the Life |
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| 1894 |
Caban Coch dam in the Elan Valley
is constructed |
The Manchester Ship
Canal is opened |
Nicholas II becomes tsar of Russia;
New Zealand is the first country to give women the right to vote |
| 1895 |
A teacher at Llangamarch School records
that there is no fire at the school during the bitterly cold winter |
The National Trust
is formed |
Jameson raids the Transvaal in South
Africa |
| 1899 |
A new building for John Beddoes School
in Presteigne is opened |
School leaving age
raised to 12 years |
The second Boer War breaks out in
South Africa |
| 1900 |
A little girl is badly injured as
she goes home from Ynscedwyn School over the local railway line |
Joseph Conrad’s Lord
Jim is published |
The Boxer rising against foreign presence
in China |
| 1901 |
The fire brigade in
Hay-on-Wye obtain a steam-powered fire pump |
Death of Queen Victoria |
Romania and Bulgaria
clash over mutual claims on Turkish-held Macedonia |
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