CHRONOLOGY OF PUBLICATIONS AND EVENTS1841 Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
(August) Second Peel administration
1842 Robert Browning, Dramatic Lyrics
Tennyson, Poems
(August) Treaty of Nanking ends "Opium War"
Income Tax (abolished in 1816) reintroduced at yd. in the £
184 3 Carlyle, Past and Present
John Ruskin, Modern Painters (completed i860)
1844 Elizabeth Barrett, Poems
Robert Chambers, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation
Coventry Patmore, Poems
1845 Robert Browning, Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
Edward Lear, A Book of Nonsense
John Henry Newman converts to Rome
(October) Irish famine (until 1850)
Evangelical Alliance formed
1846 George Eliot's English translation of David Friedrich Strauss, The
Life of Jesus, Critically Examined (the "Higher Criticism")
(June) Repeal of the Corn Laws
(June) Russell administration
1847 Tennyson, The Princess
(April) Chartist demonstration at Kennington Common, London
184 8 Arthur Hugh Clough, The Bothie of Toper-na-fuosich
1849 Matthew Arnold, The Strayed Reveller and Other Poems
Clough (with Thomas Burbidge), Ambarvalia
1850 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day
Tennyson, In Memoriam, A.H.H.
(September) Roman Catholic hierarchy reestablished in England
18 51 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Casa Guidi Windows
George Meredith, Poems