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Queen Victoria as Empress of India |
Empress of India
In 1877 Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India. The new viceroy the Earl of Lytton wrote to Victoria describing the scene on the Plain of Delhi where her title was proclaimed to "a vast concourse of native Princes and nobles from all parts of India".
Disraeli was now in his seventies and was unwell.
EDWARD ROBERT BULWAR LYTTON (1831-1891)- First Earl of Lytton
- Poet and diplomat
- Born in London, educated at Harrow and Bonn
- His Uncle was Henry Bulwer for whom he worked as a private secretary in 1849
- A widely traveled diplomat, he served in Florence, Paris, the Hague, St Petersburg, Constantinople, Lisbon, Madrid, Vienna and Paris
- Between 1876 and 1880 was Viceroy of India
- In 1887 was sent as ambassador to Paris and died there
Victoria's Crown, the Star of India is displayed with the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.
VICTORIA'S DIARY ENTRY ON THE PURCHASE OF THE SUEZ CANAL SHARES
Windsor Castle, the twenty fourth of November, eighteen hundred and seventy five. Received a box from Mr. Disraeli, with the very important news that the Government has purchased the Viceroy of Egypt's shares in the Suez Canal for four millions, which gives us complete security for India, and altogether places us in a very safe position! An immense thing. It is entirely Mr. Disraeli's doing. Only three or four days ago I heard of the offer and at once supported and encouraged him, when at that moment it seemed doubtful, and then today all has been satisfactorily settled.
 
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| 1837 | Victoria becomes Queen
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| 1859 | Palmerston becomes Prime Minister
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| 1861 | Prince Albert dies
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| 1865 | Palmerston dies
Russell becomes Prime Minister
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| 1868 | Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1870 | Franco-Prussian War
First Irish Land Act
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| 1874 | Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
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| 1877 | Victoria becomes Empress of India
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| 1880 | Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1881 | Disraeli dies
Second Irish Land Act
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| 1885 | Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
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| 1887 | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
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| 1892 | Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1894 | Rosebery becomes Prime Minister
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| 1895 | Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
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| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
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| 1898 | Gladstone dies
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| 1899 | Second Boer War breaks out
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| 1901 | Queen Victoria dies
Edward VII becomes king
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