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- 1807 Abolition of the slave trade in Britain
- 1808 The Cries of New-York, probably the first
American book of street cries, published by
Samuel Wood
- 1812-15 War between Britain and the United
States
- 1813 Catnach Press established in London by
James Catnach. Its publications include street
ballads, execution sheets, and cheap children's
books, many of them fairy tales and nursery
rhymes, ranging in price from a quarter penny
to a penny.
- 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
- 1816-48 Period of restoration in Europe, also
known as the Metternich Era, after the
reactionary chancellor of the Austro-Hungarian
Empire who brought about a restoration of
archconservative governments throughout
Europe
- 1817 Foundation of American Sunday-School
Union
- ca. 1818-88 The firm of Richardson in Derby,
founded by Thomas Richardson; publishes many
children's educational chapbooks
- 1818 Mary Martha Sherwood's The History of the
Fairchild Family (part 1), familiar Sunday
reading in most Victorian nurseries
- 1819 Washington Irving's "Rip Van Winkle" and
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
- 1820 The History of an Apple Pie. Written by Z
published by J. Harris and Son as a picture book
- ca. 1821-32 Solomon King, in New York,
publishes many traditional chapbook titles
- 1823 Edgar Taylor's German Popular Stories, a
translation of selected tales from Jacob and
Wilhelm Grimm's Kinder- und Hausmärchen
(1812-15, Children's and Household Tales) •
Clement C. Moore's A Visit from St. Nicholas
- 1827 The American Tract Society (founded
1825) begins publishing for children
- 1837 Victoria becomes queen of England.
- 1843 Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol
- 1844 Heinrich Hoffmann's Struwwelpeter
(Germany) parodies evangelical writing
- 1846 Mary Howitt's translation of Wonderful
Stories for Children by Hans Christian Andersen;
one of the first English translations of
Andersen's fairy tales, which began appearing in
Danish in 1835 • Edward Lear's A Book of
Nonsense, an early use of the children's book as
adult therapy
- 1848 Revolutions throughout Europe
- 1850 North London Collegiate School for Girls
established
- 1851 Nathaniel Hawthorne's A Wonder-Book for
Girls and Boys; Tanglewood Tales follows in
1853
- 1856 Charles Kingsley's The Heroes, a reply to
Hawthorne
- 1861-65 American Civil War
- 1863 Charles Kingsley's The Water-Babies • Jules
Verne's Cinq semaines en ballon, voyage de découvertes en Afrique (Five Weeks in a
Balloon), the first major science fiction novel
- 1864 George MacDonald's "The Light Princess"
first published in the novel Adela Cathcart
- 1865 Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland
- 1867 Hesba Stretton's Jessica's First Prayer begins
a fashion for waif stories • British North
America Act passes in the British Parliament,
making Canada an independent country
- 1868 Louisa May Alcott's Little Women
- 1870 The Elementary Education Act passes in
Britain
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