Victoria was born on 24 May 1819 in Kensington Palace. Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Victoria came to the throne at eighteen in 1837 and reigned for more than sixty-three years, the longest of any British monarch until Elizabeth II. In 1840 she married her cousin Prince Albert, and they had nine children, who married into the royal families of Europe. After Albert's death in 1861, she withdrew from public life for years. She became Empress of India in 1876, and her Golden and Diamond Jubilees celebrated a period of industrial growth and imperial expansion. The age that bears her name saw major social and technological change.
Before and after
- 24 December 1818Birth of James Prescott Joule
- from 1819 to 1831Gran Colombia
- 25 January 1819Founding of University of Virginia
- 6 February 1819Founding of modern Singapore
- 24 May 1819Birth of Victoria
- 31 May 1819Birth of Walt Whitman
- 12 June 1819Discovery of 7P/Pons–Winnecke
- 20 June 1819Birth of Jacques Offenbach
- 1 August 1819Birth of Herman Melville
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The era
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