Henry Cooper

THE TIMES

Monarchs

Victoria

1837-1901

Edward VII

1901-1910

George V

1910-1936

EVENTS

Charlotte Bronte publishes Jane Eyre 1847

The Crimean War 1854-1856

Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species 1859

American Civil War 1861-65

Lewis Carroll Alices's Adventures in Wonderland 1865

First long-distance telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell 1876

Thomas Edison tests his first light bulb 1879

Women's suffrage in New Zealand 1893

First commercial film release and the invention of the gramophone record 1894

First modern Olympic Games 1896

The Boer War 1899-1902

The first cars

Kenneth Grahame - The Wind In The Willows 1908

The first planes

WWI 1914-18

Russian Communist Revolution 1917

Radio

A. A. Milne publishes Winnie The Pooh 1926

'The Jazz Singer', the first "talkie", released.1927

LIFE