Timeline: Arabella Thrall: Thrale & Thrall family history

thrale & thrall family history

Abt 1838 - 1840 (~ 1 years)

	Date	Event(s)
1	1838	28 Jun 1838—28 Jun 1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
2	1839	1839—1839: First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) - Britain captures Hong Kong 1839—1839: Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel,thus creating the first true 'bicycle' in the modern Sense 1839—1839: Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
3	1840	1840—1840: Population Act relating to taking of censuses in Britain 1840—1840: Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849, but these probably landed elsewhere) 10 Jan 1840—10 Jan 1840: Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally