Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.

Coronation of Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

Queen Victoria opens the Great Exhibition in London.

Queen Victoria institutes the Victoria Cross.

Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, as the capital of Canada.

The ''Wedding March'' by Felix Mendelssohn becomes a popular wedding recessional after it is played on this day at the marriage of Queen Victoria's daughter, Victoria, and Friedrich of Prussia.

U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.

American Civil War: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom issues a "proclamation of neutrality" which recognizes the breakaway states as having belligerent rights.

Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom is proclaimed Empress of India.

The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.

Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.

Edward VII is proclaimed King after the death of his mother, Queen Victoria.

Funeral of Queen Victoria.