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The Parliament in Westminster passed an Act of Union formally binding Ireland with England and abolished the Irish parliament.

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Rich women wore corsets under their dresses. At the beginning of Victoria's reign it was fashionable to wear a crinoline under a skirt. These hoops and petticoats made skirts very wide. Later in the period skirts were narrower with a shape at the back called a bustle.

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Britain conducted its first census in order to find out how many men were available for conscription.

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Thomas Bruce, the 7th Earl of Elgin, took the 2,500 year-old bas-reliefs from the Parthenon in Greece while he served as the British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire.

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The London Stock Exchange formed. British government debt was the only security traded and this remained so until 1822.

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In Australia the Aboriginal warrior Pemulwuy (b.~1750) was shot dead. His head was cut off and believed to have been placed in a jar and sent to England. He opposed British settlement and was described by Sydney's then governor Philip King as "a terrible pest to the colony" but also "a brave and independent character."

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Joel Houghton was granted the first patent for a dishwasher.

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Isaac Singer patents the sewing machine motor.

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Jean Lenoir invents an internal combustion engine.

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Englishmen Robert Whitehead invents a torpedo.

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Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.

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Isadora Duncan establishes the first school of modern dance in Berlin.

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The Romantic period in ballet sees ballerinas making technical and artistic strides in the art form. Until this period, men dominated the stage.

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Claude Debussy introduces impressionism in Pelléas and Mélisande at the Opéra Comique in Paris.

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Anton Chekhov introduces modern realism at the premiere of The Cherry Orchard at the Moscow Art Theatre.

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David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

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Cheap Clothes and Nasty by Charles Kingsley

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Realities by Eliza Lynn-Linton

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Ruth by Elizabeth Gaskell

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The Star Chamber by W.H. Ainsworth