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Hace 4 días · Queen Victoria‘s coronation in 1838 marked the start of one of history‘s most remarkable royal turnarounds. With the crown‘s reputation and relevance at a low point, the young queen seized her chance to prove the monarchy‘s value to a changing Britain.
Hace 4 días · Queen Victoria ascended to the British throne on June 20, 1837 at the tender age of 18. Few could have predicted the monumental changes that would transform virtually every aspect of British society over the course of her record-breaking 63-year reign.
Hace 3 días · Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910. The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Edward, nicknamed "Bertie", was related to royalty throughout Europe.
Hace 2 días · Queen Victoria granted the Queensland Coat of Arms to the Colony of Queensland in 1893, making it the oldest State Arms in Australia. It depicts Queensland's primary industries in the 19th century with a sheaf of wheat, the heads of a bull and a ram, and a column of gold rising from a heap of quartz.
Hace 1 día · The First Opium War ( Chinese: 第一次鴉片戰爭; pinyin: Dìyīcì yāpiàn zhànzhēng ), also known as the Anglo-Chinese War, was a series of military engagements fought between the British Empire and the Qing dynasty of China between 1839 and 1842.
Hace 3 días · Victoria has been remembered as a sad teenager or a widowed Queen; her years of ruling or her actions as the most powerful woman in the western world have been hidden under grim images of the black-clad monarch.
Hace 22 horas · Looking back, it’s surprising how many pivotal events took place while she was Queen. Victoria ruled from June, 1837, until January, 1901, and her reign saw tremendous changes in both Canada and the world at large. It was in that time that the British Empire reached its zenith, culminating with Victoria being pronounced Empress of India in 1876.
