Victorian era

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era of British history historical period

The Victorian era was the period of British history during Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), marked by rapid industrialization, imperial expansion, and significant social and cultural change.

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Observed surface forms (8)

Surface form	Occurrences
Victorian Britain	2
Victorian England	2
Late Victorian	1
Pax Britannica	1
Victorian	1
Victorian era Britain	1
Victorian period	1
Victorian-era America	1

Statements (108)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	era of British history ⓘ historical period ⓘ
associatedWith	British Empire at its height ⓘ Gothic Revival ⓘ surface form: Gothic Revival architecture Victorian architecture ⓘ Victorian art ⓘ Victorian fashion ⓘ Victorian literature ⓘ Victorian morality ⓘ Victorian science ⓘ
capital	London, England ⓘ surface form: London
country	United Kingdom ⓘ
dominantReligion	Anglican Communion ⓘ surface form: Anglicanism Protestant Christianity ⓘ surface form: Protestantism
economicSystem	capitalism ⓘ emergent welfare reforms (late) ⓘ laissez-faire economics (early and mid) ⓘ
endTime	1901 ⓘ
fieldOfWork	architecture ⓘ engineering ⓘ imperial administration ⓘ industrial development ⓘ literature ⓘ public health ⓘ railway construction ⓘ science and technology ⓘ social reform ⓘ
followedBy	Edwardian era ⓘ
follows	Georgian era ⓘ William IV era ⓘ
governmentForm	constitutional monarchy ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	Victorian morality ⓘ child labor ⓘ cult of domesticity ⓘ debates over evolution ⓘ development of modern policing ⓘ expansion of public education ⓘ expansion of railways ⓘ factory system ⓘ growth of consumer culture ⓘ growth of the middle class ⓘ imperial expansion ⓘ philanthropy ⓘ poor urban living conditions ⓘ prudish sexual norms ⓘ rapid industrialization ⓘ religious revivalism ⓘ rise of mass literacy ⓘ scientific advancement ⓘ separate spheres ideology ⓘ social reform movements ⓘ strict social hierarchy ⓘ technological innovation ⓘ temperance movement ⓘ urbanization ⓘ women’s suffrage activism (early phase) ⓘ
hasCulturalMovement	Aestheticism ⓘ surface form: Aesthetic movement Gothic Revival ⓘ Muscular Christianity ⓘ Pre-Raphaelite art ⓘ surface form: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Social realism ⓘ surface form: Social realism in literature Spiritualism ⓘ
hasPart	early Victorian period ⓘ late Victorian period ⓘ mid-Victorian period ⓘ
headOfState	Queen Victoria ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legislativeBody	British Parliament ⓘ surface form: Parliament of the United Kingdom
monarch	Queen Victoria ⓘ
namedAfter	Queen Victoria ⓘ
notableFigure	Alexander Graham Bell ⓘ Alfred, Lord Tennyson ⓘ Benjamin Disraeli ⓘ Charles Darwin ⓘ Charles Dickens ⓘ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ⓘ Florence Nightingale (as nurse and organizer of medical care) ⓘ surface form: Florence Nightingale George Eliot ⓘ Herbert George Wells ⓘ surface form: H. G. Wells Herbert Spencer ⓘ Isambard Kingdom Brunel ⓘ James Clerk Maxwell ⓘ John Ruskin ⓘ John Stuart Mill ⓘ Joseph Lister ⓘ Lewis Carroll ⓘ Michael Faraday ⓘ Oscar Wilde ⓘ Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha ⓘ surface form: Prince Albert Robert Browning ⓘ Rudyard Kipling ⓘ Thomas Hardy ⓘ Thomas Henry Huxley ⓘ surface form: Thomas Huxley William Ewart Gladstone ⓘ William Morris ⓘ
partOf	19th century ⓘ
significantEvent	Crimean War ⓘ Great Exhibition of 1851 ⓘ Indian Rebellion of 1857 ⓘ Second Industrial Revolution ⓘ surface form: Industrial Revolution (later phase) Great Famine ⓘ surface form: Irish Famine (Great Famine) Public Health Acts in Britain ⓘ Reform Act 1832 ⓘ surface form: Reform Acts in Britain Scramble for Africa ⓘ Second Boer War ⓘ Opium Wars ⓘ surface form: Second Opium War expansion of the British Empire ⓘ
startTime	1837 ⓘ

Referenced by (176)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Robert Browning → activeInPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

Victorian morality → appliesToPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

Chapel Hill Historic District → architecturalStyle → Victorian era ⓘ

this entity surface form: Late Victorian

Arthur Hughes → artisticPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

The Lady of Shalott → artisticPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

subject surface form: The Lady of Shalott (painting)

Broket Hall → associatedWith → Victorian era ⓘ

Down House, Downe, Kent → associatedWith → Victorian era ⓘ

Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews → associatedWith → Victorian era ⓘ

Alice Vavasor → authorEra → Victorian era ⓘ

Southport → developedDuring → Victorian era ⓘ

Torquay → developedDuring → Victorian era ⓘ

Jacobean Revival → developedIn → Victorian era ⓘ

Weston-super-Mare → developedSignificantlyIn → Victorian era ⓘ

Victorian aesthetics → emergedDuring → Victorian era ⓘ

Muscular Christianity → emergedInPeriod → Victorian era ⓘ

15th Hussars → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Ada Lovelace → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Caledonian Railway → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Clement Shorter → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Cragside → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Craigdarroch Castle → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Crystal Palace Park (part) → era → Victorian era ⓘ

subject surface form: Crystal Palace Park

Duleep Singh → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Dunorlan Park → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Edward Leader Williams → era → Victorian era ⓘ

F. W. Maitland → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Francis Thompson → era → Victorian era ⓘ

George Allen & Sons → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Great Hall → era → Victorian era ⓘ

subject surface form: Great Hall (Manchester Town Hall)

HMS Britannia → era → Victorian era ⓘ

HMS Warrior (1860) → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Henry Irving → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Horace Darwin → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Isaac G. Perry → era → Victorian era ⓘ

John Ruskin → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Mary Anne Disraeli → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Mary McVicker Booth → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Olmsted, Vaux & Co. → era → Victorian era ⓘ

On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Redhouse (Old Town Hall) → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Scott Monument → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Seven Sisters → era → Victorian era ⓘ

subject surface form: Seven Sisters (San Francisco)

Shingle style architecture → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Sidney Lee → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Sir Henry Cole → era → Victorian era ⓘ

Sir Henry Tate → era → Victorian era ⓘ

The Corn Exchange, Manchester → era → Victorian era ⓘ