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Did you Know? List of Interesting Facts about Victorians
Facts are statements which are held to be true and often contrasted with opinions and beliefs. Our unusual and interesting facts about Victorians, trivia and information, including some useful statistics will fascinate everyone from kids and children to adults.

Interesting Facts about Victorians are as follows:

  • Fact 1 - Definition; The term' Victorian' refers to Queen Victoria of Great Britain or to the age in which she ruled or a person who lived during the reign of Victoria

  • Fact 2 - The Victorian era of the United Kingdom was the period of Queen Victoria's reign from June 1837 until her death on the 22nd of January 1901
  • Fact 3 - Victorianism is the name given to the attitudes, art, and culture of the era
  • Fact 4 - Great Victorians: The most famous Victorian statesmen and politicians included Sir Robert Peel, Lord Melbourne, Lord Derby, Lord Palmerston, William Gladstone, Benjamin Disraeli, and Lord Salisbury
  • Fact 5 - Some of the most famous Victorian inventions were the Telephone, Radio, Toilet, Camera, Stamp, Train, Vacuum Cleaner and Sewing Machine
  • Fact 6 - Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876
  • Fact 7 - Karl Benz built the first motorcar in 1885
  • Fact 8 - Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio in 1895
  • Fact 9 - Steam was used to power factory machinery, ships and trains. The first electric train was invented by a German in 1879
  • Fact 10 - Victorian parents believed that children should be seen, not heard
  • Fact 11 - Britain built a huge empire during the Victorian period becoming the richest and most powerful country in the World
  • Fact 12 - The population of Great Britain doubled from 16 million to 37 million people during the Victorian era
  • Fact 13 - Affluent households had a servant or servants – in 1891, 2 million servants were recorded in the census
  • Fact 14 - Great Victorians: Victorian novelists and poets included: Matthew Arnold, Emily, Anne and Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti, Robert Browning, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Alfred Lord Tennyson, William Thackeray, Anthony Trollope, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll and H. G. Wells
  • Fact 15 - The Police Force was created during the Victorian period by Sir Robert Peel (hence the nickname 'Bobbies')
  • Fact 16 - There were very strict codes of conduct and morals that Victorians were expected to abide by. If a single man called another single woman by her first name, it implied engagement
  • Fact 17 - Tuberculosis, called “consumption”, was the main killer of the Victorians
  • Fact 18 - Poor or sick Victorians were sent to harsh institutions called the Poorhouse or Workhouse
  • Fact 19 - Victorian Fog - A deadly combination of smoke and thick fog were called 'pea soupers'
  • Fact 20 - There were no painkillers nor anesthesia for the Victorians - operations went on for hours with patients in excruciating agony
  • Fact 21 - Jack the Ripper: Jack the Ripper was the name given to an unidentified serial killer who murdered women of dubious morals in the Whitechapel district of London in 1888 and terrified Victorians

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