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World Events Timeline 1855-1872 |
Dodgson’s Life Events Timeline 1855-1872 |
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1858 Princess Royal, Victoria, marries Prince Frederick William of Prussia (January). The Great Eastern, a ship of revolutionary design by renowned Victorian engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, launched (January). Lord Derby elected premier of Great Britain (February). Atlantic telegraph completed (August). |
1858 Reads George Eliot’s Scenes from Clerical Life (January). Invents first of four different systems of cipher (February/March). Exhibits four photographs at fifth annual exhibition, Photographic Society of London (April). Takes photographs of Liddell sisters, including Alice as “Beggar-Maid” (Summer). |
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1859 Visits the Tennysons on Isle of Wight (April). Meets Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, to discuss ordination (July). Visits studio of sculptor Alexander Munro and takes several photographs (summer). Spends time with Bishop of Durham Charles T. Longley and his family (late summer). Prince of Wales comes to Christ Church, Oxford, as undergraduate (October). |
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1860 J. M. Barrie, writer of Peter Pan, born (May). Great Eastern arrives in New York (June). Prince of Wales visits United States (August). Abraham Lincoln elected sixteenth president of United States (November). First patent issued for Yale lock. |
1860 Contributes “A Photographer’s Day Out” to The South Shields Amateur Magazine (early in the year). Makes pilgrimage to Daresbury and Richmond--places associated with his early life (Easter). Attends meeting of British Association at Oxford during which Wilberforce and Huxley debate Darwin’s Origin of Species. Photographs several delegates (June/July). Takes holiday at Whitby, Yorkshire (late summer). Meets Queen Victoria and members of Royal Family at Christ Church Deanery, Oxford (December). Publishes A Syllabus of Plane Algebraical Geometry (month unknown). |
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1861 U.S. civil war begins (April). Queen Victoria calls for British people to remain neutral in American civil war (May). Albert, the Prince Consort, dies (December). Dickens’s Great Expectations published. |
1861 Begins “letter register” numbering all correspondence sent and received chronologically (January). Reviews Photographic Society of London’s exhibition in The Illustrated Times (January). Visits James Hunt at Ore, near Hastings, to receive help with speech hesitation (April). Publishes The Formula of Plane Trigonometry (June). Attends Oxford University debate on endowment of Greek professorship (November). Ordained deacon of Church of England by Wilberforce in Christ Church Cathedral (December). |
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1862 International Exhibition opens in London (May). |
1862 Visits Isle of Wight and meets the Tennysons and Camerons (April). Becomes editor, College Rhymes (July). Takes Liddell sisters on boat-trip during which he tells the tale of Alice’s Adventures (July). Composes medley-song, “Miss Jones,” with help from his sisters (September). |
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1863 Abolition of slavery declared by President Abraham Lincoln (January). Prince of Wales marries Princess Alexandra of Denmark (March). William Makepeace Thackeray dies (December). Charles Kingsley publishes The Water Babies. |
1863 Attends celebrations in Oxford to commemorate wedding of Prince and Princess of Wales (March). Journeys to Tenby, West Wales, to visit relatives--Smedleys and Pooles (April). Vaccinated against smallpox (May). Prince and Princess of Wales visit the Deanery, Christ Church, Oxford (June). Spends a few days photographing Rossetti family in London (October). |
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1864 Geneva Convention, first to provide more humane treatment for wounded, signed (August). |
1864 Introduced by Tom Taylor to John Tenniel; asks latter to illustrate Alice’s Adventures (January). Tenniel consents (April). Spends a few weeks at Lambeth Palace photographing visitors (July). Visits Isle of Wight and photographs Farringford, the Tennyson’s home, and Mr. Weld (August). Presents Alice Liddell with manuscript copy of Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (November). Meets, for first time, Kate and Ellen Terry in person at their home (December). |
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1865 Meets Sophie Anderson, painter, at her home (April). Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland published, but immediately withdrawn from sale (July). Alice reprinted--becoming first published edition (November). Letter of complaint from undergraduates at Christ Church, Oxford, published in The Times (November). Sees Henry Dunbar at Olympic Theatre, London (December). |
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1866 Lord Derby becomes premier of Great Britain (July). |
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1867 Nebraska admitted to the Union as thirty-seventh state (February). Dominion of Canada established (March). Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital. |
1867 Publishes “The Organization of Charity” in Pall Mall Gazette (January). Sees amateur production of A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing performed at Olympic Theatre to aid family of C. H. Bennett (May). Travels to Russia with Henry P. Liddon, via France, Belgium, and Germany (July to September). |
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1868 Benjamin Disraeli becomes premier of Great Britain (February). General Ulysses Grant elected eighteenth president of United States (November). Disraeli resigns and William Gladstone becomes premier (December). |
1868 Reads Dickens’ Our Mutual Friend (January). Dodgson’s father, Archdeacon Charles Dodgson, dies (June). Brothers and sisters move to “The Chestnuts,” Guildford (September). Publishes letter in Oxford University Herald about Woodstock Election (November). |
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1869 Disestablishment of Irish Church (July). Suez Canal opens (November). |
1869 Book of poetry entitled Phantasmagoria published (January). Sister, Mary Charlotte Dodgson, marries Charles E. S. Collingwood at Guildford (April). |
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1870 Charles Dickens dies (June). Republic proclaimed in France (September). |
1870 Spends five days at home of Henry Holiday, artist and illustrator, taking photographs July). Visits Margate, Kent, for five weeks (August and September). |
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1871 Royal Albert Hall opens in London (March). Great Chicago fire (October). |
1871 Visits Lord Salisbury and family at Hatfield House (July). Attends brother’s wedding at Sleights, near Whitby (August). Travels to Scotland, visiting studio and home of Sir Noël Paton (September). Publishes Through the Looking-Glass (December). |
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1872 Arthur Orton, the Tichborne Claimant, found an imposter (March). Smallpox epidemic in London (July). |
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