Straits Setttlements 1896 Ten Cents - Queen Victoria UNCIRCULATED with Lustre

This Straits Setttlements 1896 Ten Cents featuring Queen Victoria is an UNCIRCULATED specimen with Pearl Tone and Lustre and full detail.

Estimated Price: $120 US$

Key Milestones of Queen Victoria's Reign

Queen Victoria ( 1837 - 1901 )

1837 - Victoria succeeds her uncle, William IV

1840 - Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.

1840 - The Penny Post is introduced. First postage stamp is the Penny Black.

1840 - First colonist settlement in New Zealand.

1845 - - 1849 Irish Potato Famine kills more than a million people. Many emigrate to America.

1849 - Harrods store in London is opened

1854 - Charge of the Light Brigade

1854 - 10,000 die of cholera from contaminated water in London.

1856 - The Victoria Cross is instituted for military bravery.

1858 - First trans-Atlantic telegraph service

1861 - Prince Albert dies of typhoid

1861 - - 65 Civil War in America. Southern states unsuccessfully seek to involve Britain which has sufficient cotton from Egypt and India, but needs the Union North's grain.

1863 - The Salvation Army is founded.

1863 - The Football Association is founded.

1865 - Slavery is ended in America with Northern Union victory in the American Civil War

1867 - Canada becomes the first independent dominion in the Empire.

1868 - Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the first time.

1870 - Death of Charles Dickens

1874 - Disraeli becomes Prime Minister for the second time.

1876 - Scots Alexander Graham Bell demonstrates the telephone

1878 - William Booths Christian movement adopts the name The Salvation Army

1880 - Gladstone succeeds Disraeli as Prime Minister

1884 - Greenwich Meridian and Mean Time adopted

1887 - Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee. She has ruled for 50 years.

1897 - Victoria celebrates her Diamond Jubilee.

1897 - Marconi demonstrates wireless transmission across the Bristol Channel

1901 - Queen Victoria dies, aged 81.

1880 Great Britian 1880 Half Crown Young Head Queen Victoria High Grade Numismatic Peice

1880 Great Britian 1880 Half Crown Young Head Queen Victoria High Grade Numismatic Peice

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