Victorian era
        Victorian era   1837–1901    Queen Victoria by Bassano (1887)    Preceded by  Regency era    Followed by  Edwardian era    Monarch(s)  Victoria    Leader(s)   Lord Melbourne  Sir Robert Peel  Lord John Russell  Lord Derby  Lord Aberdeen  Lord Palmerston  Benjamin Disraeli  William Ewart Gladstone  Lord Salisbury  Lord Rosebery        Periods in English history            Prehistoric Britain  until c.  43    Roman Britain   c.  43–410    Anglo-Saxon   c.  500–1066    Norman  1066–1154    Plantagenet  1154–1485    Tudor  1485–1603     Elizabethan  1558–1603    Stuart  1603–1714     Jacobean  1603–1625    Caroline  1625–1649    (Interregnum)  1649–1660    Restoration  1660–1714    Georgian  1714–1837     Regency  1811–1820    Victorian  1837–1901    Edwardian  1901–1914    First World War  1914–1918    Interwar Britain  1919–1939    Second World War  1939–1945    See also   Political history (1945–present)  Social history (1945–present)        Timeline    v  t  e    In the history...