Queen VictoriaBy: Thenya Taiyanides

Aja Piro Ashley Ramirez Katie Schmidt

On the 24th of May 1819, queen Victoria was born at Kensington Palace in London.

She was the only daughter of the Duke of Kent and Victoria Mary-Louisa.

When she was a baby in 1820, her father died.

She received a very strict education with her uncle Leopold.

At twelve years old, she that she would take the reign.

She became queen when she was eighteen. She succeeded to her uncle William the fourth.

Queen Victoria came to the throne when she was only 18 years of age on June 20, 1837.

At the age of 21, Victoria married her cousin, Albert of Saxe-Coburg, a German Prince on February 10,1840.

Queen Victoria reigned for exactly sixty-three years, seven months, and two days (June 20, 1837 - January 22, 1901).

Britain became the most powerful country in the world, with the largest empire that had ever existed, ruling a quarter of the world's population.

The number of people living in Britain more than doubled, causing a huge demand for food, clothes, and housing.

Factories and machines were built to meet this demand and new towns grew up, changing the landscape and the ways people lived and worked.

Railways, originally built to transport goods, meant people could travel easily around the country for the first time.

Queen Victoria died on 22 January, 1901 at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She was 81.

She is buried in a mausoleum at Frogmore, Windsor. Queen Victoria was succeeded by her eldest son, Albert

Edward, Prince of Wales. He became King Edward VII. During his reign there were significant changes in

technology and society, including powered flight and the rise of socialism and the Labor movement.

Edward played a role in the reorganization of the British army after the Second Boer War.

Victoria had nine children, 40 grand-children and 37 great-grandchildren, scattered all over Europe.

All of her children married into royalty.

1842: Massacre of Elphinstone's Army by the Afghans results in the death or incarceration of 16,500 soldiers and civilians.

1854 : Crimean War : The United Kingdom declared war on Russia.

1882: British troops began the occupation of Egypt by taking the Suez Canal, in order to secure the vital trade route and the passage to India, and the country became a protectorate.

1870 – 1891: Under the Elementary Education Act 1870 basic State Education became free for every child under the age of 10.

Family is considered as a central institution in society.

Victorians were chiefly introverted, overconfident, and rude.

There was the unblinking worship ofindependence and of hard cash.

• The belief in institutions, patriotism, democracy, individualism, organized religion, philanthropy, sexual morality, capitalism, and progress.

Quick Facts

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