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1840Feb 10Queen Victoria married Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg-Gotha.1
1841Mar 04Augustus Pugin published True Principles of Pointed Architecture.
Mar 04William Henry Harrison inaugurated President of the United States.
Apr 06John Tyler inaugurated President of the United States.
1842Jul Dante Gabriel Rossetti leaves King's College School.2
1843Dec 19Charles Dickens' classic Yuletide tale, "A Christmas Carol," was first published in England.1
May John Ruskin's Modern Painters vol I published by Smith, Elder & Co.4-52
May 14John Ruskin encountered the stained glass of Rouen4-62
1844Sep 09John Ruskin arrived in Venice, dismayed at the destruction on Casa d'Oro.4-67
1845--Potato Famine of 18453.
Mar 04James Knox Polk inaugurated President of the United States.
1846--John Ruskin's Modern Painters vol II published.4-55
Aug 15Walter Crane born in Liverpool.
1848Feb 18Louis Comfort Tiffany born in New York, New York.1
Apr 10John Ruskin married Euphermia Gray at Bowerswell, Scotland.4-84
Dec 31First formal meeting of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.2 Founding members included William Holman Hunt, John Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.6
1849--John Ruskin published The Seven Lamps of Architecture.4-55
Mar 05Zachary Taylor inaugurated President of the United States.
Mar 20Maria Longworth Nichols, founder of Rookwood Pottery, born in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Sep 30Charles Fairfax Murray born.5
1 The New York Times on the Web
2 Rossetti Archive
3 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2001
4 John Ruskin : A Life, John Batchelor, 2000
5 Charles Fairfax Murray: The unknown Pre-Raphaelite, David Elliott, 2000 6 William Morris: A Life for Our Time, Fiona MacCarthy, 1994