Another Victorian Timeline

ERAS
Georgian 1714-1837
Early Victorian 1837-1860
Mid-Victorian 1860-1880
Late Victorian 1880-1901
Art Nouveau 1880-1914
Arts and Crafts 1890-1914
Edwardian 1901-1910
Art Deco 1920-1940
Retro 1935-1950

VICTORIAN ERA


DATE EVENT
OR FAD

Victorian needlework, collecting, nature, traveling,
art, the unusual and bizarre.
Majolica, Beleek, Parian ware china.
Maps, botanicals, photography.
Lithography, wood & steel engravings.
Commemoratives
Ancestry & family ties.
Collecting nature: nests, sea shells, pressed flowers, etc.
velvet in fashion and decorating


1819 Victoria, future queen, born

1820-30's first Victorian pressed glass

1837-1901 Victoria's reign
1838 transfer printed pottery became popular

1839 photography invented

1840 Victoria married her cousin Albert of Saxe-Cobourg & Gotha
Princess Victoria born

1841 Prince of Wales (Edward VII) born

1847 Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale (1820-1887) toured Britain
Beginning of the Morman's westward movement (70,000 people)

1849 Gold Rush
Westward Emigration

1850's matching suites of furniture
carpet
porcelains
Rococo floral dishes
asymmetry, clustering, eclectic decor

1851 The Great Exhibition in England; the Crystal Palace

1853 Crystal Palace Exposition, NY
Majolica introduced

1854 Crimean War; England & France against Russia

1850-60's paisley shawls popular

1858 Princess Victoria wed Fredrick III of Prussia

1860 tintypes replaced daguerreotypes in popularity

1861 death of Prince Albert
mourning jewelry popularized by Queen Victorian & Civil War

1850-70 balloon-backed chairs popular
men's facial hair a sign of masculinity, thus stylish

1861- Civil War

1862 Victoria's Silver Jubilee

1863 Albert, Prince of Wales married Princess Alexandra of Denmark

1867 stereoscope invented

1870's blue & white china
Japanseque craze
ebonized furniture

1870-80's autograph books popular
Renaissance Revival furniture
cult of rustic adornment

1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition
Japanese & Turkish items
national pride in American Victorian
Colonial Revival

1877 Victoria became Empress of India
Indian Mutiny

1879 Zulu War

1880 Railroad Time standardized

1880's home library a status symbol

1887 Victoria's Golden Jubilee
progression to colored transferware rather than black & white

1888 Silver Wedding Anniversary of Prince & Princess of Wales

1890's souvenir teaspoons
"Turkish corners" a new decorating theme
china painting popular
trophies & presentation silver
first moving pictures
round oak pedestal tables, pressed back chairs, oak washstands
great land rushes in the US
NM & AZ still referred to as "the wild west"
Victorian vaseline (uranium) glass popular

1891 McKinley Tariff Act: china must be marked w/name of country of origin

1892 Favrile iridescent glassware introduced by L.C. Tiffany

1897 Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
Fred Harvey opened Harvey Houses

1893 World's Columbia Exposition, Chicago

1899-1902 Boer War; Africa

1880's-1915 American brilliant cut glass
1871-1914 Belle Epoch in Europe- lyrical romantic era, neo-classic influence of Pompeii
1901 death of Queen Victoria

1902 Prince of Wales Coronation

1910 Prince of Wales death


SOURCES:
"Warman's Jewelry, 2nd Edition" by Christie Romero
"Old Jewelry" by Jeanenne Bell
"Antique Jewelry, the Buyer's Guide to Affordable" by Anna M. Miller
"Antique Jewelry, the Official Identification Guide to" by Arthur Guy Kaplan
.... and other friends and collectors!
From http://www.morninggloryantiques.com/JewelChatVictorian.htm