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[73] [74] The Chartist movement for working-class men to be given the right to vote, which had been prominent in the early Victorian period, dissipated. [73] Government involvement in the economy was limited. [74] Only in the post-World War II period, around a century later, did the country experience substantial economic growth again. [72]
Her government was led by the Whig prime minister Lord Melbourne, to whom she was close. [2] But within two years he had resigned, and the Tory politician Sir Robert Peel attempted to form a new ministry. Peel said he was willing to become prime minister provided the Queen replaced her Whig ladies-in-waiting with Tory ones.
Homininaeid Era – Period prior to the existence of Homininae; Homininid Era – Period prior to the existence of Hominini; Prehistory – Period between the appearance of Homo ("humans"; first stone tools c. three million years ago) and the invention of writing systems (for the Ancient Near East: c. five thousand years ago).
The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and shipping booms, profound scientific discoveries, and the invention of ...
This era was dominated by the Democratic-Republican party as the Federalists became irrelevant. The disastrous Panic of 1819 and the Supreme Court's McCulloch v. Maryland reanimated the disputes over the supremacy of state sovereignty and federal power, between strict construction of the US Constitution and loose construction. [9]
The Victorian era saw the introduction and development of many modern sports. [118] Often originating in the public schools, they exemplified new ideals of manliness. [119] Cricket, [120] cycling, croquet, horse-riding, and many water activities are examples of some of the popular sports in the Victorian era. [121]
The Interregnum [1] was the period between the execution of Charles I on 30 January 1649 and the arrival of his son Charles II in London on 29 May 1660, which marked the start of the Restoration. During the Interregnum, England was under various forms of republican government.
The Victorian era (1837−1901) was the period during the reign of Queen Victoria and the 19th century Modern period of the United Kingdom See also the preceding Category:Georgian era and the succeeding Category:Edwardian era