Industrial Age · South Asia · Politics
1876
Queen Victoria Empress of India
May 13, 1876
Parliament, urged by Disraeli, passed a Royal Titles Act making Victoria Empress of India - a gesture to the princes, a snub to the tsar, and a coronation that would be performed at the Delhi Durbar. Victoria was pleased. The empire had reached its symbolic zenith, with Calcutta and London joined by a single crown.
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Also in 1876 (3 other events on record)
- Bell's Telephone · North America · Technology
- Little Bighorn · North America · War
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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