May 24, 1819 - Kensington Palace, London - Alexandrina Victoria is born
June 24, 1819 - Kensington Palace - Baptism in the Cupola Room at Kensington Palace
January 23, 1820 - Victoria's father, the Duke of Kent, dies
April(?) 1(?), 1820 - Kensington Palace - The Duchess of Kent and Victoria take residence in Kensington Palace
August 15, 1823 - Ramsgate - Victoria arrives in Ramsgate with her mother, the Duchess of Kent, staying at Albion House
January(?) 1(?), 1825 - (While in Kensington Palace) - Parliament unanimously resolves to allow the Duchess of Kent an additional £6,000 a year ‘for the purpose of making an adequate provision for the honourable support and education of her highness Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent
January(?) 1(?), 1826 - Kensington Palace - Victoria begins singing lessons with John Bernard Sale, organist of St.Margaret's, Westminster
August 17, 1826 - Windsor - Victoria and her mother visit King George IV. The king takes her with him on Virginia Water, and afterwords he drives her out in his carriage
May 19, 1828 - Kensington Palace - Sir Walter Scott dines with the Duchess and is presented to Princess Victoria
May 28, 1828 - Kensington Palace | St.James's Palace, London - The Duchess receives Prussia's ambassador in London. His daughters become Victoria's childish companions. King George IV gives a ball in honor of Queen Maria II of Portugal, a month older than the Princess, although she had already occupied her throne for three years
June 26, 1830 - (While in Kensington Palace) - King George IV, Victoria's uncle, dies. She becomes heir-presumptive
July 20, 1830 - St.James's Palace, London - Victoria follows Queen Adelaide at a chapter of the order of the Garter, dressed in deep mourning with a long court train and veil reaching to the ground
October 23, 1830 - Bath - Victoria opens the Royal Victoria Park at Bath
October(?) 25(?), 1830 - Malvern Hills - The Duchess of Kent and Sir John Conroy take Victoria across the centre of England to visit Malvern Hills, where she inaugurates Victoria Drive
February 24, 1831 - Attends her first drawing-room, in honour of Queen Adelaide's birthday
August 1(?), 1831 - Portsmouth - The Duchess of Kent and Princess Victoria receive a royal salute from the ships at Portsmouth on proceeding for their autumn holiday to Norris Castle, Isle of Wight
September 8, 1831 - The Duchess of Kent and Victoria do not attend the coronation of William IV
July 1(?), 1832 - Victoria starts keeping a detailed diary, until just before her death
August 1(?), 1832 - Kensington Palace - Princess Victoria departs Kensington on tour to Wales
October 13, 1832 - Plas Newydd, Wales - Victoria lays the first stone of a boys' school in the town
October 17, 1832 - Chester - Victoria visits Chester and opens a new bridge over the Dee, which was called "Victoria Bridge"
October 18, 1832 - Chatsworth - Victoria stays with the Duke of Devonshire (until October 24th)
November 8, 1832 - Oxford - Arrival in Oxford, where Victoria and mother receive addresses from both town and University
May 24, 1833 - St.James's Palace, London - King William IV celebrates Victoria's birthday with a juvenile ball
July 28(?), 1833 - Portsmouth - Victoria visits Horatio Nelson's flagship "HMS Victory"
July 29, 1833 - Weymouth - Spends some time at Melbury, Lord Ilchester's seat
August 2, 1833 - Plymouth - Victoria and mother inspect the Dockyards
June 1(?), 1834 - Westminster Abbey, London - Victoria attends a royal musical festival at Westminster Abbey
July 30, 1835 - St.James's Palace - Victoria is confirmed at Chapel Royal by the Archbishop of Canterbury
October 7, 1835 - Ramsgate - Victoria contracts a typhoid fever. While Victoria was ill, Conroy and the Duchess unsuccessfully badgered her to make Conroy her private secretary
October 31, 1835 - Ramsgate - Victoria recovers from her typhoid fever
May 1(?), 1836 - Kensington Palace - Princess Victoria meets Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg for the first time
August 20, 1836 - St.James's Palace - At the King's birthday, he publicly expresses the hope that he might live till his niece came of age, so that the kingdom might be spared the regency which parliament had designed for the Duchess of Kent. He describes his sister-in-law as a ‘person’ ‘surrounded by evil counsellors,’ and unfitted ‘to the exercise of the duties of her station.’ He asserts that, contrary to his command, she is occupying an excessive number of rooms — seventeen — at Kensington Palace. He would not ‘endure conduct so disrespectful to him.’ The princess bursts into tears. The breach between the king and Victoria's mother is complete
May 24, 1837 - Kensington Palace - Victoria turns 18 and a regency is avoided
June 20, 1837 - Kensington Palace - King William IV dies at Windsor Castle, aged 71, and Victoria becomes Queen of the United Kingdom =(START)
June 27, 1837 - Kensington Palace - Queen Victoria holds her first levee to receive the credentials of the ambassadors and envoys
July 13, 1837 - Buckingham Palace, London - Queen Victoria leaves Kensington Palace for Buckingham Palace
July 13, 1837 - Buckingham Palace, London - Queen Victoria leaves Kensington Palace for Buckingham Palace
July 17, 1837 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria dissolves the Parliament in accordance with the law which required a general election to take place immediately on the demise of the crown
August 22, 1837 - Windsor - Queen Victoria goes to Windsor to assume residence at the castle for the first time
November 9, 1837 - Guildhall, London - State banquet at the Guildhall with the Lord Mayor and foreign ambassadors. Victoria leaves Buckingham Palace in a procession of fifty-eight carriages
November 20, 1837 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens her first Parliament, reading her own speech
December 23, 1837 - Westminster - Queen Victoria goes to the Parliament to thank in person for the incomes and expenses granted to her household
December 25, 1837 - Buckingham Palace - Christmas at Buckingham Palace
December 26, 1837 - Windsor - The Court withdraws to Windsor
August 22, 1837 - Windsor - Queen Victoria goes to Windsor to assume residence at the castle for the first time
November 9, 1837 - Guildhall, London - State banquet at the Guildhall with the Lord Mayor and foreign ambassadors. Victoria leaves Buckingham Palace in a procession of fifty-eight carriages
November 20, 1837 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens her first Parliament, reading her own speech
December 23, 1837 - Westminster - Queen Victoria goes to the Parliament to thank in person for the incomes and expenses granted to her household
December 25, 1837 - Buckingham Palace - Christmas at Buckingham Palace
December 26, 1837 - Windsor - The Court withdraws to Windsor
June 28, 1838 - Westminster Abbey, London - Queen Victoria is crowned at Westminster Abbey. 400,000 visitors come to London for the celebrations
October 7, 1839 - Windsor - The Queen transfers nearly £50,000 to pay her father's depts.
October 7, 1839 - Windsor - The Queen transfers nearly £50,000 to pay her father's depts.
October 10, 1839 - Windsor - Prince Albert arrives at Windsor to visit Victoria for a second time
October 15, 1839 - Windsor - Queen Victoria proposes to Prince Albert
November 23, 1839 - Buckingham Palace - Victoria leaves Windsor for Buckingham Palace
January 16, 1840 - Westminster - Opening Session of Parliament - Queen Victoria's speech about her coming marriage
November 23, 1839 - Buckingham Palace - Victoria leaves Windsor for Buckingham Palace
January 16, 1840 - Westminster - Opening Session of Parliament - Queen Victoria's speech about her coming marriage
February 10, 1840 - Chapel Royal, St.James's Palace, London - Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg
June 10, 1840 - Constitution Hill, near Buckingham Palace, London - At about 4:00 PM, Edward Oxford, an unemployed man, takes up a position on a footpath at Constitution Hill, near Buckingham Palace. The Queen, who was four months pregnant with her first child, was accustomed to riding out in a phaeton, or low, open horse-drawn carriage, with her husband, Prince Albert in the late afternoon or early evening, with no other escort than two outriders. When the royal couple appears some two hours later and draws level with him, he fires both pistols in succession, missing both times. He is immediately seized by onlookers and disarmed. Oxford makes no attempt to hide his actions, openly declaring: "It was I, it was me that did it
November 1(?), 1840 - Buckingham Palace - Queen Victoria signs a Royal Charter establishing New Zealand as a Crown Colony separate from New South Wales from May 1841
November 1(?), 1840 - Buckingham Palace - Queen Victoria signs a Royal Charter establishing New Zealand as a Crown Colony separate from New South Wales from May 1841
November 21, 1840 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Victoria is born
December 25, 1840 - Windsor - Christmas holidays at Windsor
February 10, 1841 - Buckingham Palace - The Princess Royal is baptized Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa
August 19, 1841 - (While in Buckingham Palace) - A new Parliament assembles. For the first time Victoria is absent and her speech is read by the lord Chancellor (the House of Commons was not to her liking)
November 9, 1841 - Buckingham Palace - Prince Albert Edward is born
December 25, 1841 - Windsor Castle - Christmas at Windsor
January 25, 1842 - Windsor Castle - Prince Albert Edward is baptized
February 3, 1842 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens Parliament, with the presence of the King of Prussia
May 29, 1842 - The Mall, London - Victoria is riding in a carriage along The Mall, London, when John Francis aims a pistol at her but the gun doesn't fire; he escapes
May 30, 1842 - The Mall, London - The following day, Victoria drives the same route, though faster and with a greater escort, in a deliberate attempt to provoke Francis to take a second aim and catch him in the act. As expected, Francis shoots at her, but he is seized by plain-clothes policemen, and convicted of high treason
July 3, 1842 - The Mall, London - John William Bean tries to fire a pistol at the Queen, but it is loaded only with paper and tobacco and has little charge. He is senteced to 18 months in jail
August 29, 1842 - Woolwich - Victoria and Albert embark on the yacht "Royal George" to Scotland
September 1, 1842 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Victoria and Albert Arrive in Edinburgh for a visit to Scotland
September 7, 1842 - Taymouth Castle, Perthshire - Victoria and Albert arrive in Taymouth Castle, the home of the Marquess of Breadalbane, for a three-day stay
September 10, 1842 - Taymouth Castle - Victoria and Albert depart Taymouth Castle
September 15, 1842 - Edinburgh - Victoria and Albert depart Scotland by sea
May 25, 1843 - Buckingham Palace, London - Princess Alice is born
June 2, 1843 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Alice is christened "Alice Maud Mary"
September 2, 1843 - Tréport | Château d'Eu, Normandy, France - Victoria and Albert arrive in Tréport aboard the new yacht "Victoria and Albert" to visit King Louis Philippe I at Château d'Eu in Normandy
September 7, 1843 - Brighton - Victoria and Albert depart Château d'Eu and arrives in Brighton to spend a few days with her children
September 11, 1843 - Brighton - Victoria and Albert depart Brighton
September 12, 1843 - Oostende | Laeken, Belgium - Victoria and Albert sail to Oostende and pay a visit to her uncle, the King of Belgium at his palace
September 21, 1843 - Woolwich - Victoria and Albert return to England, from Antwerp
October 1(?), 1843 - Cambridge - Visit to Cambridge. Prince Albert receives a doctor's degree
December 7, 1843 - Windsor - Victoria returns to Windsor
August 6, 1844 - Windsor Castle - Prince Alfred is born
August 11, 1844 - Windsor Castle - King Louis Philippe I of France makes a reciprocal trip to visit Victoria and Albert
August 14, 1844 - Portsmouth - Victoria and Albert accompany King Louis Philippe I to Portsmouth
September 6, 1844 - Buckingham Palace, London - Baptism of Prince Alfred
October 28, 1844 - London - Queen Victoria opens the new Royal Exchange
November 12, 1844 - Northampton - Victoria passes through Northampton on her way to visit the Marquis of Exeter at Burghley House
February 4, 1845 - Westminster, London - Opening Session of Parliament - Queen Victoria's speech about Tsar Nicholas and the King of France's visits
June 6, 1845 - Buckingham Palace - Ball costumé with the theme of George II's reign
June 21, 1845 - Spithead - Review of the Fleet
July 1(?), 1845 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria receives the King of the Netherlands
August 6, 1845 - Antwerp, Belgium - Victoria and Albert land at Antwerp
August 9, 1845 - (While on the way to Brühl) - Aberdeen Act - "An Act to carry into execution a Convention between Queen Victoria and the Emperor of Brazil, for the regulation and final abolition of the African Slave Trade" - The act gave the Royal Navy authority to stop and search any brazilian ship suspected of being a slave ship on the high seas, and to arrest slave traders caught on these ships - It provokes outrage in Brazil
August 11, 1845 - Schloss Brühl, Brühl, 20 km S of Cologne - Victoria and Albert arrive in Brühl to visit Frederick William IV of Prussia at Aachen, Cologne and Bonn
August 14, 1845 - Stolzenfels (Koblenz) - Victoria and Albert depart Brühl and arrive in Stolzenfels
August 16, 1845 - Stolzenfels (Koblenz) | Mainz - Concert by Franz Liszt at Stolzenfels Castle to Queen Victoria. She and Albert arrive at Hotel de l'Europe, Mainz, to visit Crown Prince William of Prussia
August 18, 1845 - Schloss Würzburg, Würzburg-Bavaria - Victoria and Albert arrive to Schloss Würzburg to visit Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria
August 19, 1845 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Victoria and Albert arrive to Schloss Rosenau to visit Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
August 27, 1845 - Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda - Victoria and Albert arrive at Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda
August 28, 1845 - Schloss Friedrichsthal, Gotha - Victoria and Albert arrive at Schloss Friedrichsthal, Gotha, to visit Karoline Amalie, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
September 3, 1845 - Schloss Eisenach, Eisenach | Fulda - Victoria and Albert visit Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Victoria and Albert arrive in Fulda
September 4, 1845 - Frankfurt - Victoria and Albert receive Ludwig I of Bavaria at the Hotel d'Angleterre
September 5, 1845 - Deutz - Victoria and Albert stay at an hotel in Deutz
September 6, 1845 - Antwerp, Belgium - Visit to Leopold I of Belgium
September 8, 1845 - Château d'Eu, Normandy, France - Victoria and Albert visit King Louis Philippe I at Château d'Eu in Normandy
September 9, 1845 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria and Albert settle again at Osborn House, a private estate on the Isle of Wight
December 13, 1845 - Windsor - Interview with Lord John
January 14, 1846 - Westminster, London - Victoria attends the State Opening of Parliament
May 25, 1846 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Helena is born
July 25, 1846 - Buckingham Palace - Baptism of Princess Helena
June 15, 1847 - Queen's Theatre, Haymarket - The Queen attends Bellini's Opera "Norma", and is delighted by Jenny Lind's performance
August 11, 1847 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria and Albert depart to Scotland by the west, aboard the yacht "Victoria and Albert"
August 12, 1847 - Scilly Islands - Victoria and Albert spend a night at the Scilly Islands
August 14, 1847 - Ardverikie, Scotland - Victoria and Albert rent Ardverikie by Loch Laggan
August 18, 1847 - Inveraray Castle - Arrival at Inveraray Castle
September 17, 1847 - Fleetwood | Liverpool - Victoria and Albert return to England, by ship to Fleetwood, then take the train at Liverpool
September 18, 1847 - London - Return to London
March 18, 1848 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Louise is born
April 10(?), 1848 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria and her family depart London for the greater safety of Osborn House, at the height of a revolutionary scare in the United Kingdom
May 2, 1848 - Buckingham Palace - Return to Buckingham Palace
May 13, 1848 - Buckingham Palace - Baptism of Princess Louise
May 15, 1848 - Stafford House, London - Chopin plays for an audience that includes Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
September 5, 1848 - Westminster, London | Woolwich - Queen Victoria prorogues Parliament in person. She embarks at Woolwich for Aberdeen
September 8, 1848 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria and Albert visit Balmoral for the first time
October 9, 1848 - Between Osborne House and Portsmouth - Victoria's yacht "Fairy" runs down a boat belonging to the Grampus frigate and thee women drown
May 19, 1849 - Constitution Hill, near Buckingham Palace, London - Unemployed irishman William Hamilton fires a powder-filled pistol at Victoria's carriage. Hamilton is sentenced to seven years' transportation
August 3, 1849 - Cork, Ireland - The Royal yacht anchors at Cork, Ireland
August 6, 1849 - Dublin, Ireland - Letter to the Belgian King
August 11, 1849 - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Queen Victoria visits Belfast for five hours
August(?) 13(?), 1849 - Glasgow, Scotland - Public visit to Glasgow
August(?) 15(?), 1849 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Arrival in Balmoral
March 9, 1850 - Buckingham Palace - The Queen has dinner with Macaulay, the paymaster-general
May 1, 1850 - Buckingham Palace - Prince Arthur is born
June 22, 1850 - Buckingham Palace - Prince Arthur's baptism
June 27, 1850 - Cambridge House, Piccadilly - Queen Victoria is assaulted by a possibly insane ex-army officer, Robert Pate. As Victoria is riding in a carriage, Pate strikes her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and bruising her forehead. Pate is sentenced to seven years' transportation
July 3, 1850 - Buckingham Palace - The "Koh-i-Noor" diamond is formally presented to Queen Victoria by the deputy chairman of the East India Company
January 14, 1851 - Windsor - Meeting with Macaulay
February 4, 1851 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
May 1, 1851 - Crystal Palace, London - Queen Victoria opens the "Great Exhibition", the first of the World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry
June 13, 1851 - Buckingham Palace - Ball costumé with the theme of Charles II's reign
July 9, 1851 - Guildhall, London - The Queen attends a ball at the Guildhall which celebrated the success of the Exhibition
October 9(?), 1851 - Liverpool - Visit to Liverpool
October 10, 1851 - Salford, Manchester - Visit to Peel Park, Salford
October 12(?), 1851 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria arrives in Balmoral
November 11, 1852 - Westminster, London - The Queen opens the new Parliament with Lord Derby as prime-minister again
November 18, 1852 - Buckingham Palace, London - Queen Victoria witnesses the funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington
April 7, 1853 - Buckingham Palace - Prince Leopold is born
June 28, 1853 - Buckingham Palace - Baptism of Prince Leopold
August 11, 1853 - Spithead - The Queen holds a Naval Review of the Fleet
August 28, 1853 - London - Victoria and Albert take a train to Holyhead, Wales
August 29, 1853 - Holyhead, Wales | Dublin, Ireland - Victoria and Albert sail to Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) on the royal yacht. They arrive in Dublin with their sons Princes Edward & Alfred to show public support for the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853
September 3, 1853 - Dublin - Victoria and Albert depart Dublin
September 28, 1853 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone to the extension of the castle to build to have space for the growing family
January 31, 1854 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
February 27, 1854 - Buckingham Palace - The Queen sends a message to the House of Lords announcing the breakdown of negotiations with Russia
February 28, 1854 - Buckingham Palace - Great Britain declares WAR to Russia! France and Sardinia affirm their readiness to fight at Britain's side
March 10, 1854 - Spithead - Queen Victoria reviews the great fleet which is destined for the Baltic under Sir Charles Napier
May 11, 1854 - Buckingham Palace - Victoria (wearing her wedding dress) and Albert are photographed by Roger Fenton
May 12, 1854 - French Embassy, London - The Queen, by way of acknowledging the alliance into which she had entered with the emperor, pays the French ambassador, Count Walewski, the high compliment of attending a bal costumé at the French embassy at Albert Gate
May 13, 1854 - Woolwich - Queen Victoria christens the battleship "Royal Albert"
June 1(?), 1854 - Queen Victoria entertains for a month her cousin Pedro V, the new King of Portugal, and his brother Luis, Duke of Oporto (future King Luis I)
June 10, 1854 - Sydenham - Queen Victoria opens the Crystal Palace, which had been transfered from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition
October 11, 1854 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria departs Balmoral
October 13, 1854 - Hull - Visit to Hull. Victoria writes a letter to her uncle Leopold, King of Belgium
April 16, 1855 - Windsor - Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie visit London, then go to Windsor
April 21, 1855 - Buckingham Palace - Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie depart London
August 8, 1855 - Saint-Cloud, France - Victoria and Albert return Napoleon III's visit
August 25, 1855 - Versailles, France - Napoleon III offers a supper to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Château de Versailles. She is introduced for the first time to Count (afterwards Prince) Bismarck, then prussian minister at Frankfurt
August 27, 1855 - Boulogne - Victoria and Albert depart to Osborn House, via Boulogne
August 29, 1855 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Letter to Empress Eugénie
September 10, 1855 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria receives news of the fall of Sebastopol, in Crimea
November 1(?), 1855 - Windsor - The Court moves to Windsor
January 29, 1856 - Queen Victoria introduces the Victory Cross to honor acts of valour during the Crimean War
January 31, 1856 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens Parliament amidst great rejoicing for the peace with Russia
April 16, 1856 - Chatham - Visit to the military hospital at Chatham
April 17, 1856 - Aldershot - Visit to the newly formed camp at Aldershot. On 18th, the Queen reviews 18,000 men on horseback
May 7, 1856 - Buckingham Palace - Banquet to the leaders of both parties and their wives
May 9, 1856 - Buckingham Palace - The new ball-room and concert-room at Buckingham Palace, which Prince Albert had devised, is brought into use for the first time on the occasion of a ball in honour of the Princess Royal's début
May 19, 1856 - Netley, near Southampton - Lays foundation stones of a hospital at Netley
May 27, 1856 - London - Ball at the turkish ambassador's
June 2, 1856 - Sandhurst - Lays foundation stones of Wellington College, Sandhurst, for the sons of officers
June 7, 1856 - Aldershot - On 7th and 8th June, the Queen inspects a great body of troops, accompanied by the King of the Belgians and Prince Oscar of Sweden
June 10, 1856 - Windsor - "Scottish" Ball in Waterloo Gallery at Windsor
June 20, 1856 - Buckingham Palace - The Queen entertains Sir Fenwick Williams of Kars
June 26, 1856 - Grosvenor House - The Duke of Westminster gives a ball in Queen Victoria's honour
July 9, 1856 - Buckingham Palace - State reception of the guards on their home-coming from Crimea
October(?) 1(?), 1856 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - The Queen receives Florence Nightingale at Balmoral
April 14, 1857 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Beatrice is born
June 16, 1857 - Buckingham Palace - Baptism of Princess Beatrice
June 17, 1857 - Crystal Palace, London - The Court attends the first Händel festival, where "Judas Maccabeus" is performed
June 25, 1857 - Buckingham Palace - Queen Victoria confers her husband the title of "Prince Consort"
June 26, 1857 - Hyde Park, London - First Victoria Cross awarding ceremony. Queen Victoria invests 62 of the 111 Crimean recipients
June 29, 1857 - Manchester - The Queen stays with the Earl of Ellesmere at Worsley Hall to inspect the art treasures exhibition at Manchester
August 6, 1857 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Napoleon III and Ministers Waleswski and Persigny, visit Victoria and Albert
August 19, 1857 - Cherbourg, France - Victoria and Albert cross the Channel to Cherbourg to inspect the dockyard
August 28, 1857 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria departs to Balmoral
September 16, 1857 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria departs Balmoral to London
December 3, 1857 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament - Speech about the rebellion in India
January 14, 1858 - (While in London) - An Italian refugee from Britain called Felice Orsini attempts to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb made in England. The ensuing diplomatic crisis destabilises the government, and Palmerston resigns. Derby is reinstated as prime-minister
January 25, 1858 - London - Victoria and Albert attend the Marriage of their eldest daughter and Prince Frederick William of Prussia
August 5, 1858 - Cherbourg - Victoria and Albert attend the opening of a new basin at the french military port of Cherbourg, in an attempt by Napoleon III to reassure Britain that his military preparations are directed elsewhere
August 11, 1858 - Breidenbacher Hof, Düsseldorf - Victoria arrives in Breidenbacher Hof, Düsseldorf
August 12, 1858 - Herrenhausen, Hanover | Potsdam, Brandenburg - Visiting George V of Hanover in Herrenhausen. On the same day travels to Babelsberg Palace to visit Crown Prince William of Prussia
August 28, 1858 - Cologne - Victoria arrives to the Hotel de Bellevue in Cologne
August 30, 1858 - Cologne - Victoria leaves the Hotel de Bellevue and departs Cologne
August 31, 1858 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria and Albert reach Osborne House via Antwerp and Dover
September(?) 1(?), 1858 - On her return Victoria writes to Derby reprimanding him for the poor state of the Royal Navy in comparison to the French one
January 20, 1859 - Sandhurst - Victoria opens Wellington College for the sons of officers
February 3, 1859 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament - Declares that England would be no party to the Emperor Napoleon's ambitious designs
April 7, 1859 - Buckingham Palace - Dress ball in honor of the sixth birthday of Queen Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leopold
June 12, 1859 - Buckingham Palace - Victoria recalls Viscount Palmerston to office
August 26, 1859 - Portsmouth - Victoria inspects the 32rd regiment, whence the heroes of Lucknow had been drawn
December 21, 1859 - Windsor - Letter to a woman called "Minnie", praising the effects of chloroform in childbirth
January 4, 1860 - Windsor Castle - Victoria Cross awarding ceremony
January 24, 1860 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
March 7, 1860 - St.James's Palace, London - Victoria holds a special levee of 2,500 volunteer officers
June 23, 1860 - Hyde Park, London - Queen Victoria reviews 20,000 men
September 22, 1860 - Gravesend, Kent - Queen Victoria and Princess Alice depart to Antwerp
September 23, 1860 - Antwerp, Belgium - Arrival in Antwerp
September 24, 1860 - Frankfurt - Victoria arrives at the Hotel d'Angleterre
September 25, 1860 - Coburg - Visit to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
September 29, 1860 - Rosenau - Queen Victoria meets Gustav Freytag
October 10, 1860 - Mainz - Victoria arrives to the Rheinische Hof Hotel
October 11, 1860 - Electoral Palace, Koblenz - Visit to Crown Prince William of Prussia
October 13, 1860 - Brussels, Belgium - Victoria arrives at the Royal Palace of Brussels for a visit to Leopold I of Belgium
November 30, 1860 - Windsor - Prince Louis of Hesse pays a visit to Windsor
December 25, 1860 - Windsor - Christmas and New year's eve at Windsor
February 4, 1861 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
February 5, 1861 - Adelphi Theatre, London - Victoria goes to see an irish play by Dion Boucicault's called "The Colleen Bawn"
March 16, 1861 - (While in Buckingham Palace) - Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, dies
August 21, 1861 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria, Albert, Princesses Alice and Helena and Prince Arthur depart to Ireland
August 22, 1861 - Kingston, Dublin, Ireland - Victoria and Albert arrive in Ireland
August 24, 1861 - Curragh, S of Dublin - Victoria and Albert visit their son, the Prince of Wales, who is attending army manoeuvres at curragh camp, south of Dublin, and spend a few days holidaying in Killarney
August 26, 1861 - Killarney, SW Ireland - The Royal family travels to the southwest of Ireland by train
August 29, 1861 - Dublin, Ireland - Victoria and Albert depart Ireland
September 4, 1861 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria is visited by her half-sister, the Princess Leiningen
October 22, 1861 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Stop at Edinburgh so that Prince Albert could lay foundation-stones of a new post office and the industrial museum of Scotland
October 23, 1861 - Windsor - Victoria and Albert return to Windsor
November 25, 1861 - (While in Windsor) - Ill and at a low ebb, Prince Albert travels to Cambridge to confront his son, the Prince of Wales, to discuss his indiscreet affair with irish actress Nellie Clifden
December 9, 1861 - Windsor Castle - Prince Albert is diagnosed with Typhoid Fever
December 14, 1861 - Windsor Castle - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dies of typhoid fever, aged 42. Victoria is devastated
December 19, 1861 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria retires to Osborne House
August 21, 1862 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - The Queen lays the foundations of a cairn "to the beloved memory of Albert the Great and Good, Prince Consort, raised by his broken-hearted widow"
September 2, 1862 - Laeken, Belgium - Victoria arrives at the Royal Palace of Laeken for a visit to Leopold I of Belgium
September 5, 1862 - Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda - Victoria arrives for a stay at Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda
October 3, 1862 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Visit to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
October 18, 1862 - Laeken, Belgium - Victoria arrives at the Royal Palace of Laeken for another visit to Leopold I of Belgium
March 5, 1863 - St.George's Chapel, Windsor - Marriage of the Prince of Wales, Victoria's eldest son. She plays no part in the ceremony, but witnesses it from a gallery overlooking the chancel
April 5, 1863 - Windsor Castle - Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Queen Victoria's granddaughter, is born
August 12, 1863 - Laeken, Belgium - Victoria arrives at the Royal Palace of Laeken for a visit to Leopold I of Belgium
August 15, 1863 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Visit to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
August 31, 1863 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - At Victoria's request, the King of Prussia pays her a visit
September 3, 1863 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Queen Victoria is visited by Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria
October(?) 1(?), 1863 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Autumn stay in Balmoral
October 13, 1863 - Aberdeen, Scotland - Victoria unveils a bronze statue of the Prince Consort
December 1(?), 1863 - Windsor - The Queen receives The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Princess of Denmark and her husband
January 8, 1864 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Interview with the prussian envoy, Theodor von Bernhardi
February 4, 1864 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
March 30, 1864 - The Queen attends a flower show at the Horticultural gardens
August 11, 1865 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Victoria visits Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
February 10, 1866 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
March 13, 1866 - Aldershot - The Queen reviews troops
April 5, 1866 - Aldershot - The Queen reviews troops
June 12, 1866 - Kew - Victoria attends Princess Mary's wedding
June 19, 1866 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Lord Russell forwards his resignation to Balmoral
July 5, 1866 - Windsor - Victoria attends the solemnization of marriage of her third daughter, Helena, with Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
October 1(?), 1866 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - The Queen withraws to Balmoral
October 16, 1866 - Invercannie, Scotland - Victoria opens the Aberdeen waterworks at Invercannie
November 30, 1866 - Wolverhampton - Visit to Wolverhampton
February 5, 1867 - Westminster, London - Victoria opens the Parliament
July 12, 1867 - Buckingham Palace - Abdul Aziz, the Ottoman Sultan, is received in Buckingham Palace
August 21, 1867 - Kelso, Scotland - Two-days stay with the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh at Floors Castle
September 24, 1867 - Glenfiddich, Scotland - Visit to the Duke of Richmond
October 15, 1867 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - A large statue of Albert with a dog and a gun by William Theed, is inaugurated on 15 October 1867, the twenty-eighth anniversary of their engagement
March 10, 1868 - Buckingham Palace - For the first time since her widowhood, Queen Victoria holds a drawing-room at Buckingam Palace
June 20, 1868 - Windsor Park - Queen Victoria reviews 27,000 volunteers
June 22, 1868 - Buckingham Palace - Queen Victoria gives a public "breakfast" or afternoon party in the gardens of Buckingham Palace
August 6, 1868 - Paris - Victoria arrives in Paris
August 7, 1868 - Lucerne, Switzerland - Victoria arrives in Pension Wallis, Lucerne
September 10, 1868 - Paris | St.Cloud - Queen Victoria revisits St.Cloud
September(?) 15(?), 1868 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Return to England. Retires to Balmoral
December 14, 1868 - Frogmore, Windsor Castle - A special service is held at the Frogmore mausoleum, destined to hold her remains as well as those of the Prince
April 17, 1869 - Aldershot - Review of troops
June 28, 1869 - Buckingham Palace - Breakfast in honour of the Khedive of Egypt
November 6, 1869 - London - Arrival in London from Balmoral, for a visit
January(?) 1(?), 1870 - (While in London?) - In 1870, republican sentiment in Britain, fed by the Queen's seclusion, is boosted after the establishment of the Third French Republic. A republican rally in Trafalgar Square demanded Victoria's removal, and Radical MPs speak against her
January(?) (?), 1871 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria is taken seriously ill with an abscess in her armpit (until september). Surgeon Joseph Lister is called to Balmoral. Armed with carbolic acid, Lister lances the mass, drains its pus, and dresses and treats the wound to prevent infection—but at one point, he accidentally sprays his disinfectant in the displeased queen's face.
July 4, 1871 - Windsor Castle - The Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II and his wife visit Windsor Castle, where they are received by Queen Victoria
July 5, 1871 - London - Queen Victoria returns the visit and meets with the brazilian imperial couple in the Hotel Claridges
November 30(?), 1871 - (While at Balmoral Castle, Scotland) - The Prince of Wales contracts typhoid fever as his father, and Victoria is fearful her son would die
February 27, 1872 - St.Paul's Cathedral, London - Victoria and the Prince of Wales attend a public parade through London and a grand service of thanksgiving in St.Paul's Cathedral
February 28(?), 1872 - Buckingham Palace - On the last day of February 1872, two days after the thanksgiving service, 17-year-old Arthur O'Connor (great-nephew of Irish MP Feargus O'Connor) waves an unloaded pistol at Victoria's open carriage just after she had arrived at Buckingham Palace. Brown, who is attending the Queen, grabs him and O'Connor is later sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. As a result of the incident, Victoria's popularity recovers further
March 25, 1872 - Villa Delmar, Baden-Baden, Germany - Victoria arrives in Villa Delmar to visit Princess Feodora of Leiningen
April 8, 1872 - Villa Delmar, Baden-Baden, Germany - Victoria departs to England
May 2, 1872 - Windsor(?) - Victoria receives the Empress of Germany
September 6, 1872 - Dunrobin Castle, Scotland - Visit to her daughter-in-law, after the loss of her mother, the Duchess of Sutherland
April 2, 1873 - East End, London - The Queen opens Victoria Park
June 20, 1873 - Windsor - Victoria receives the Shah of Persia
June 24, 1873 - Windsor Park - The Shah of Persia accompanies Queen Victoria in a review
April 23, 1874 - Gosport - Queen Victoria reviews sailors, marines and soldiers who had taken part in the Ashanti War
February 1(?), 1875 - Westminster, London - The Queen opens the Parliament
August 18, 1875 - Off Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria's yacht runs down another yacht, the "Mistletoe", and causes the drowning of three occupants in her presence
September 17, 1875 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria takes an affectionate leave of the Prince of Wales to India
February 8, 1876 - (While in Buckingham Palace(?)) - Disraeli pushes the Royal Titles Act 1876 through Parliament, so that Victoria takes the title "Empress of India" from 1 May 1876
February 25, 1876 - Royal Albert Hall, London - The Queen attends a concert given by her command
March 7, 1876 - London - Victoria opens a new wing of the London Hospital
March 29, 1876 - Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden - Victoria arrives at Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
April 10, 1876 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Visit to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
May 2, 1876 - Aldershot - The Queen reviews troops at Aldershot
May 11, 1876 - London - The Queen welcomes the Prince of Wales, arriving from India
August 17, 1876 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Victoria unveils another Prince Albert memorial
September 26, 1876 - Ballater, Scotland - Queen Victoria presents new colours to her father's old regiment, the royal Scots
December 25, 1876 - Windsor - Christmas at Windsor for the first time since Prince Albert's death
January 1, 1877 - (While in Windsor) - Victoria is proclaimed "Empress of India" at the Delhi Durbar
April 1(?), 1877 - ? - Until February 1878, Victoria threatens five times to abdicate while pressuring Disraeli to act against Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, but her threats had no impact on the events or their conclusion with the Congress of Berlin
July 2, 1877 - Windsor Castle - Letter to Princess Victoria of Germany about the eccentricity of the clothes of the Emperor of Brazil, which caused some shock in the State Ball and Concert (as they had caused in the soirées of the court in Berlin)
December 21, 1877 - High Wycombe - Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice travel by train from Windsor to High Wycombe station, where Lord Beaconsfield and his secretary Mr.Montagu Corry meet her
April 29, 1878 - Windsor - The Queen holds her first investiture as Empress of India
May 13, 1878 - Aldershot - Queen Victoria reviews troops in company with the crown prince of Prussia
June 25, 1878 - Windsor - Victoria attends the funeral of the dethroned King of Hanover, her cousin
July 22, 1878 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria invests Lord Beaconsfield with the Order of the Garter
August 13, 1878 - Spithead - Review of the Fleet
December 14, 1878 - Princess Alice, Victoria's second daughter, dies of diphtheria on the anniversary of Albert's death, at Darmstadt
March 13, 1879 - Windsor - Queen Victoria attends the marriage of her third son, the Duke of Connaught, to the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
March 26, 1879 - Paris - Victoria arrives at the British Embassy in Paris
March 28, 1879 - Baveno, Italy - Victoria arrives in Villa Clara, Baveno
April 24, 1879 - Paris - Victoria returns to the British Embassy in Paris
February 5, 1880 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
March 27, 1880 - Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden - Victoria arrives at Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
March 30, 1880 - Darmstadt - Victoria attends the confirmations of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
April 1, 1880 - Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden - Victoria returns to Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
April 21, 1880 - Windsor - Back at Windsor
October 11, 1881 - Abergeldie Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria attends Mr.Burnand's Comedy "The Colonel" performed by a Company of London
March 2, 1882 - Windsor Railway Station - Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems, shoots at the Queen as her carriage leaves Windsor railway station. Two schoolboys from Eton College strike him with their umbrellas, until he is hustled away by a policeman. Victoria is outraged when he is found not guilty by reason of insanity, but is so pleased by the many expressions of loyalty after the attack that she says it was "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved"
March(?) 3(?), 1882 - Cherbourg, France(?) - Queen Victoria and her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, arrive in France aboard the yacht "Victoria and Albert"
March 16, 1882 - Menton, France - Queen Victoria arrives at the Chalet des Rosiers in Menton by train and carriage, where the rail magnate Charles Henfrey had offered her the use of his villa
April 12, 1882 - Menton, France - Victoria departs Menton
April 16, 1882 - Aldershot - Queen Victoria reviews troops
April 23, 1882 - ? - Unpublished correspondence of Queen Victoria to Prime Minister Gladstone: "Punishment deters not only sane men but also eccentric men, whose supposed involuntary acts are really produced by a diseased brain capable of being acted upon by external influence. A knowledge that they would be protected by an acquittal on the grounds of insanity will encourage these men to commit desperate acts, while on the other hand certainty that they will not escape punishment will terrify them into a peaceful attitude towards others"
April 27, 1882 - Windsor Castle - Queen Victoria attends the marriage of her son Prince Leopold with Princess Helene Friederike
August 17, 1882 - Parkhurst, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria presents new colours to the 2nd battalion of the Berkshire Regiment, which had lost their old colours at Maiwand in Afghanistan
September 12, 1882 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Diary: "My thoughts are entirely fixed on Egypt and the coming battle"
September 13, 1882 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria celebrates the victory at Tel-el-Kebir with a bonfire lit on top of Craig Gowan
March 17, 1883 - Windsor - Victoria falls down some stairs at Windsor, which leave her lame until July; she never fully recovers and is plagued with rheumatism thereafter
November 18, 1883 - St.James's Palace, London - Queen Victoria reviews 8,000 troops who had just returned from Egypt
March 28, 1884 - Windsor - Victoria is informed by telegram that her youngest son, Leopold, had died in Cannes
April 17, 1884 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Queen Victoria attends the Wedding of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
April 1, 1885 - Aix-les-Bains, France - Victoria arrives at Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe
April 22, 1885 - "via Switzerland" - Travelling to Darmstadt via Switzerland
April 23, 1885 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Victoria attends the confirmation of Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse
July 23, 1885 - Whippingham, near Osbourne - Queen Victoria attends Princess Beatrice's marriage
January 21, 1886 - Westminster, London - The Queen opens the Parliament for the last time
February 26, 1886 - Royal Albert Hall, London - Queen Victoria listens to Gounod's "Mors et Vita"
May 1, 1886 - South Kensington - Queen Victoria visits a colonial and indian exhibition
May 11, 1886 - Liverpool - Queen Victoria opens the International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry
June 30, 1886 - Windsor - Queen Victoria entertains a group of indian and colonial visitors at lunch
July 2, 1886 - Aldershot - Queen Victoria attends a review in honour of the indian and colonial visitors
March 10, 1887 - Marlborough House, Westminster, London - Dinner with the Princes of Wales
March 19, 1887 - London - Queen Victoria spends 10 days in London
March 22, 1887 - ? - Queen Victoria departs England for Florence
April 1, 1887 - Cannes, France - Victoria Arrives at Villa Edelweiss
April 6, 1887 - Aix-les-Bains, France - Victoria Arrives to Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe
May 11, 1887 - London - Performance of Buffalo Bill's "Wild West Show" to Queen Victoria
May 14, 1887 - East End, London - Victoria opens the People's Palace
June 20, 1887 - Frogmore House, Windsor | Paddington | Buckingham Palace - Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her accession on 20 June 1837. It is celebrated with a banquet to which 50 European kings and princes are invited. The Queen has breakfast outdoors under the trees at Frogmore, where Prince Albert had been buried. Second private performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to the Queen and her guests. She then travels by train from Windsor Castle to Paddington then to Buckingham Palace for a royal banquet that evening. Fifty foreign kings and princes, along with the governing heads of Britain's overseas colonies and dominions, attend. She wrote in her diary: "Had a large family dinner. All the Royalties assembled in the Bow Room, and we dined in the Supper-room, which looked splendid with the buffet covered with the gold plate. The table was a large horseshoe one, with many lights on it. The King of Denmark took me in, and Willy of Greece sat on my other side. The Princes were all in uniform, and the Princesses were all beautifully dressed. Afterwards we went into the Ballroom, where my band played"
June 23, 1887 - Frogmore House, Windsor - Queen Victoria is served at breakfast by Abdul Karim and Mohammed Buksh
July 9, 1887 - Aldershot - Review at Aldershot
July 29, 1887 - Spithead - Review of the Fleet
August 3, 1887 - ? - Queen Victoria's diary: "I am learning a few words of Hindustani to speak to my servants. It is a great interest to me for both the language and the people, I have naturally never come into real contact with before."
August 20, 1887 - Queen Victoria has some "excellent curry" made by one of the servants
August 30, 1887 - Abdul Karim begins teaching Urdu to Queen Victoria
December 1(?), 1887 - Queen Victoria uses her knowledge of Urdu to greet Maharani Chimnabal of Baroda during an audience
March 24, 1888 - Fiesole, near Florence - Victoria arrives at Villa Palmieri, Fiesole
April 5, 1888 - Florence, Italy - King Humbert visits Queen Victoria
April 6, 1888 - Florence - Queen Victoria receives the Emperor of Brazil, Peter II
April 23, 1888 - Innsbruck Railway Station, Austria - Stopover luncheon with Franz Joseph I of Austria
April 24, 1888 - Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin - Visiting Frederick III, German Emperor. Meeting with Prince Bismarck
April 26, 1888 - Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin - Victoria departs Berlin
August 1(?), 1888 - Queen Victoria promotes Abdul Karim to "Munshi" (Clerk/teacher)
March 5, 1889 - Portsmouth - Queen Victoria departs to Bordeaux, France
March 7, 1889 - Bordeaux | Biarritz, SW France - Arrival in Bordeaux. Then, Queen Victoria reaches Villa Rochefoucauld in Biarritz by carriage
March 13, 1889 - Biarritz, SW France - Letter to the Queen Regent of Spain
March 27, 1889 - San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain | Biarritz, SW France - During a stay in Biarritz, Queen victoria crosses the border to Spain for a brief visit for the first time for a british Monarch, and is received at San Sebastian by Queen Maria Christina. Queen Victoria returns to Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz
April 26, 1889 - Sandringham - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), hosts a performance of "The Bells and the Merchant of Venice" for the Queen at his home, with the presence of Henry Irving, Arminius Vámbéry and Bram Stoker. Abdul Karim finds he had been allocated a seat with the servents. Feeling insulted, he retired to his room. The Queen took his part, stating that he should have been seated among the Household
May 18, 1889 - Eton - Lays the foundation-stone of new buildings at Eton
May 31, 1889 - Aldershot - Reviewing troops
June 3, 1889 - Windsor - Presents new colours to the regiment with which she had already closely identified herself, Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers
June 4, 1889 - Eton - The Queen witnesses the annual procession of boats which celebrated George III's birthday
June 27, 1889 - Buckingham Palace - Attends the marriage of her Granddaughter, Princess Louise of Wales, to the Earl of Fife
August 8, 1889 - Spithead - The Queen holds a naval review in honor of the visiting Wilhelm II, german Kaiser
August 9, 1889 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria reviews the seamen and marines of the German fleet
September 1(?), 1889 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Stay at Balmoral. Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim stay alone in seclusion for one night at the remote cottage Glassalt Shiel at Loch Muick
November 14, 1889 - Queen Victoria approves a Royal Charter from the British Government for Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company (BSAC) to rule, police, and make new treaties and concessions from the Limpopo River to the great lakes of Central Africa
March 1, 1890 - Dr.James Reid writes that the Queen was "visiting Abdul twice daily, in his room taking Hindustani lessons, signing her boxes, examining his neck, smoothing his pillows, etc."
March 26, 1890 - Aix-les-Bains, France - Victoria arrives at Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe
April 22, 1890 - Geneva | Lucerne, Switzerland - Stopovers at Geneva and Lucerne
April 23, 1890 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Visit to Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
April 29, 1890 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Victoria departs Darmstadt
May 14, 1890 - Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire - Victoria pays a visit to Baron Ferdinand de Rothchild's château
July 4, 1890 - Chelsea, London - Victoria inspects the military exhibition at Chelsea Hospital
July 11, 1890 - Letter to Landsdowne and the Secretary of State for India, Lord Cross, for "a grant of land to her really exemplary and excellent young Munshi, Hafiz Abdul Karim"
July 26, 1890 - Southampton - Victoria opens the deep-water dock at Southampton
February 26, 1891 - Portsmouth - Queen Victoria christens and launches the "Royal Sovereign", the largest ironclad in the fleet, and the "Royal Arthur", an unarmoured cruiser of new design
March 6, 1891 - Windsor Castle - Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "The Gondoliers"
March 23, 1891 - Medieval Grasse, foothills of French Alps, near Cannes Bay - Queen victoria arrives to see Alice de Rothschild's gardens at the Villa Victoria
March 25, 1891 - Grasse, France - Victoria arrives at the Grand Hotel, Grasse
April 2, 1891 - Grasse - The Emperor of Brazil, Peter II, visits Queen Victoria
April 29, 1891 - Grasse - Victoria departs Grasse
May 21, 1891 - Derby, England - Lays the foundation-stone of the new royal infirmary at Derby
March 21, 1892 - Hyères, France - Victoria arrives at the Grand Hotel de Costebelle, Hyères
April 25, 1892 - Hyères, France - Queen Victoria departs Hyères for Darmstadt in Germany
April 26, 1892 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Victoria visits her orphaned grandchildren after the death of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
May 10, 1892 - South Kensington - The Queen opens the Imperial Institute
June 27, 1892 - Aldershot - Victoria lays the foundation-stone of a new church at Aldershot, and witnesses the march past of 10,000 men
December 25, 1892 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria spends Christmas at Osborn House
March 2, 1893 - Windsor - Gladstone goes to Windsor to resign his office
March 23, 1893 - Fiesole, near Florence - Second Visit to Villa Palmieri, Fiesole
April 26, 1893 - Fiesole, near Florence - Victoria departs Villa Palmieri
July 6, 1893 - St.James's Palace, London - The Queen attends the Duke of York's marriage
March 16, 1894 - Florence, Italy - Victoria arrives at Villa Fabbricotti, Florence
April 16, 1894 - Florence, Italy - Victoria departs Villa Fabbricotti
April 17, 1894 - Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg - Victoria arrives at Schloss Ehrenburg to attend the Wedding of her granddaughter Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Edinburgh
April 19, 1894 - Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg - Queen Victoria attends the marriage of her granddaughter Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Edinburgh and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
April 28, 1894 - Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg - Queen Victoria departs Schloss Ehrenburg
May 21, 1894 - Manchester - Opening of the Manchester Canal. The Queen knights the Lord Mayor
June 16, 1894 - Windsor - Queen Victoria enjoys the company of Princess Alix of Hesse (Alexandra Feorodovna), her granddaughter, while Tsarevich Nicholas visits Sandringham
July 5, 1894 - Windsor - Queen Victoria takes the Tsarevich Nicholas and Princess Alexandra to the Albert Memorial Chapel at St.George's
July 16, 1894 - White Lodge, Richmond - The Queen attends the christening of Edward, the first son of the Duke and Duchess of York
September 23, 1894 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Letter to Tsarevich Nicholas: "We have been so grieved to hear of your dear Father being so unwell…"
March 15, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Annual holiday in the French Riviera at the Grand Hotel, Nice-Cimiez
March 29, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Lord Rosebery, the Prime Minister, cables Queen Victoria that he feared they were rapidly approaching a condition of severe tension with the french government owing to its strange proceedings in Africa and Siam
April 1, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Queen Victoria telegraphs the Marquis of Dufferin, the British Ambassador in Paris: "These questions with France are very annoying and may be serious. Fear our Government are thinking how they can carry on, with trouble in India besides. Trust you can manage to get French Government to do nothing rash and violent, considering that I am here. My having to leave suddenly would create a panic, and be most difficult for me".
April 13, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Lunch with Lord Salisbury
April 23, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Queen Victoria departs Nice to take the special train to Darmstadt in Germany
April 24, 1895 - Darmstadt - Victoria arrives at the Altes Palais to visit Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
June 25, 1895 - Windsor - Lord Salisbury goes to Windsor to kiss hands as Prime Minister for the third time
November 9, 1895 - ? - Queen Victoria celebrates King Carlos I of Portugal's visit by conferring on him the order of the Garter
January 5, 1896 - Letter to Kaiser Wilhelm II: "My dear William, …as your Grandmother to whom you have always shown so much affection and of whose example you have always spoken of with so much respect, I feel I cannot refrain from expressing my deep regret at the telegram you sent President Kruger. It is considered very unfriendly towards this country, which I feel sure it is not intended to be, and has, I grieve to say, made a very painful impression here. The action of Dr.Jameson was of course very wrong and totally unwarranted; but considering the very peculiar position in which the Transvaal stands towards Great Britain, I think it would have been far better to have said nothing. Our great wish has always been to keep in the best terms with Germany, trying to act together, but I fear your Agents in the Colonies do the very reverse, which deeply grieves us. Let me hope you will try and check this."
January 20, 1896 - ? - Prince Henry dies at sea on a ship returning to England, of a fever taken in South Africa
February 5, 1896 - Cowes, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria is present with her widowed daughter at the arrival of Prince Henry's body
March 11, 1896 - Nice-Cimiez, France - The Royal party arrives in Nice-Cimiez
April 29, 1896 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Victoria departs Nice-Cimiez
September 22, 1896 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria welcomes Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra to Balmoral
October 5, 1896 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra depart to Russia
March 1(?), 1897 - ? - As the members of the Household prepare to depart for Cimiez for the Queen's annual visit, they insist that Abdul Karim not accompany the royal party, and decide to resign if he did so. When Harriet Phipps, one of the Queen's maids of honour, informs her of the collective decision, the Queen sweeps the contents of her desk onto the floor in a fury. The Household backs down, but the holiday is marred by increased resentment and rows between the Household and Victoria. She thinks their distrust and dislike of Karim is motivated by "race prejudice" and jealousy.
March 11, 1897 - Cherbourg, France - Queen Victoria boards the train as "Countess of Balmoral"
March 12, 1897 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Arrival in Nice. Stay at the Regina Excelsior at Nice-Cimiez
April 29, 1897 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Victoria departs Nice-Cimiez
May 21, 1897 - Sheffield - Victoria goes to Sheffield to open the new Town Hall
June 22, 1897 - outside St.Paul's Cathedral, London - Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession, follows a route six miles long through London and includes troops from all over the Empire. The procession paused for an open-air service of thanksgiving held outside St Paul's Cathedral, throughout which Victoria sat in her open carriage, to avoid her having to climb the steps to enter the building. The celebration was marked by vast crowds of spectators and great outpourings of affection for the 78-year-old Queen
June 26, 1897 - Spithead - Great review of Royal Navy's battleships
February 11, 1898 - Netley Hospital, near Southampton - Visit to the wounded men from India and the Sudan
March 12, 1898 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Stay at the Regina Excelsior at Nice-Cimiez
April 4, 1898 - Villefranche - Queen Victoria meets Leopold II of Belgium, just arrived on his yacht
April 7, 1898 - Nice-Cimiez, France - The Queen attends the Maundy Thursday procession of the Red Penitents
April 28, 1898 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Victoria departs Nice-Cimiez
May 14, 1898 - Netley Hospital, near Southampton - Visit to the wounded men from India and the Sudan
August 1(?), 1898 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria is shown "animated photographs". The film was made by Alfred West during a three-months cruise aboard "HMS Crescent", captained by the Duke of York
October 29, 1898 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria presents the colours to the newly raised 2nd battalion of the Cameron Highlanders
December 3, 1898 - Netley Hospital, near Southampton - Visit to the wounded men from India and the Sudan
March(?) 1(?), 1899 - ? - Members of the Household again insist that Abdul Karim not accompany the royal party when the Queen takes her annual holiday at Cimiez
March 12, 1899 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Stay at the Regina Excelsior at Nice-Cimiez
May 2, 1899 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Victoria departs Nice-Cimiez
May 5, 1899 - Cherbourg, France - Victoria embarks to England
May 17, 1899 - Kensington - Lays the foundation-stone of the new buildings of the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 1, 1899 - Windsor - Reviews in Windsor Great Park the Honourable Artillery Company
November 15, 1899 - Bristol - Victoria goes to Bristol to open the convalescent home which had been erected to commemorate her lenght of rule
November 20, 1899 - Windsor - Visit by the german Kaiser
December 25, 1899 - Windsor - Christmas at Windsor
March 7, 1900 - London - Visit to London
March 22, 1900 - Woolwich - Visit to wounded men from South Africa at the Herbert Hospital
March 27, 1900 - Windsor - Queen Victoria receives the delegates from Australia
April 4, 1900 - Dublin, Ireland - The Boer War is so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seems inadvisable. Instead, the Queen goes to Ireland for the first time since 1861, in part to acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war
May 2, 1900 - Windsor - The Queen returns to Windsor
May 4, 1900 - Windsor - Queen Victoria entertains the King of Sweden and Norway
May 10, 1900 - Buckingham Palace, London - The Queen holds a drawing-room
May 17, 1900 - Netley Hospital, near Southampton - Visit to the wounded men from South Africa
May 22, 1900 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Arrival at Balmoral
June 26, 1900 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Performance of Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana"
July 16, 1900 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Performance of the whole "Faust" opera
July 30, 1900 - (while in Balmoral Castle) - Prince Alfred, Victoria's second son, dies in Coburg
October(?) 20(?), 1900 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria's last visit to the estate of Balmoral before dying
November 7, 1900 - Windsor - Queen Victoria returns to Windsor
December 12, 1900 - Windsor - Queen Victoria's last public appearance, by attending a sale of needlework by Irish ladies at the Windsor Town Hall
December 14, 1900 - Frogmore, Windsor Castle - Victoria celebrates the 39th anniversary of the Prince Consort's death
December 18, 1900 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria arrives in Osborn House
January 22, 1901 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria dies, aged 81 =(END)
December 25, 1840 - Windsor - Christmas holidays at Windsor
February 10, 1841 - Buckingham Palace - The Princess Royal is baptized Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa
August 19, 1841 - (While in Buckingham Palace) - A new Parliament assembles. For the first time Victoria is absent and her speech is read by the lord Chancellor (the House of Commons was not to her liking)
November 9, 1841 - Buckingham Palace - Prince Albert Edward is born
December 25, 1841 - Windsor Castle - Christmas at Windsor
January 25, 1842 - Windsor Castle - Prince Albert Edward is baptized
February 3, 1842 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens Parliament, with the presence of the King of Prussia
May 29, 1842 - The Mall, London - Victoria is riding in a carriage along The Mall, London, when John Francis aims a pistol at her but the gun doesn't fire; he escapes
May 30, 1842 - The Mall, London - The following day, Victoria drives the same route, though faster and with a greater escort, in a deliberate attempt to provoke Francis to take a second aim and catch him in the act. As expected, Francis shoots at her, but he is seized by plain-clothes policemen, and convicted of high treason
July 3, 1842 - The Mall, London - John William Bean tries to fire a pistol at the Queen, but it is loaded only with paper and tobacco and has little charge. He is senteced to 18 months in jail
August 29, 1842 - Woolwich - Victoria and Albert embark on the yacht "Royal George" to Scotland
September 1, 1842 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Victoria and Albert Arrive in Edinburgh for a visit to Scotland
September 7, 1842 - Taymouth Castle, Perthshire - Victoria and Albert arrive in Taymouth Castle, the home of the Marquess of Breadalbane, for a three-day stay
September 10, 1842 - Taymouth Castle - Victoria and Albert depart Taymouth Castle
September 15, 1842 - Edinburgh - Victoria and Albert depart Scotland by sea
May 25, 1843 - Buckingham Palace, London - Princess Alice is born
June 2, 1843 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Alice is christened "Alice Maud Mary"
September 2, 1843 - Tréport | Château d'Eu, Normandy, France - Victoria and Albert arrive in Tréport aboard the new yacht "Victoria and Albert" to visit King Louis Philippe I at Château d'Eu in Normandy
September 7, 1843 - Brighton - Victoria and Albert depart Château d'Eu and arrives in Brighton to spend a few days with her children
September 11, 1843 - Brighton - Victoria and Albert depart Brighton
September 12, 1843 - Oostende | Laeken, Belgium - Victoria and Albert sail to Oostende and pay a visit to her uncle, the King of Belgium at his palace
September 21, 1843 - Woolwich - Victoria and Albert return to England, from Antwerp
October 1(?), 1843 - Cambridge - Visit to Cambridge. Prince Albert receives a doctor's degree
December 7, 1843 - Windsor - Victoria returns to Windsor
August 6, 1844 - Windsor Castle - Prince Alfred is born
August 11, 1844 - Windsor Castle - King Louis Philippe I of France makes a reciprocal trip to visit Victoria and Albert
August 14, 1844 - Portsmouth - Victoria and Albert accompany King Louis Philippe I to Portsmouth
September 6, 1844 - Buckingham Palace, London - Baptism of Prince Alfred
October 28, 1844 - London - Queen Victoria opens the new Royal Exchange
November 12, 1844 - Northampton - Victoria passes through Northampton on her way to visit the Marquis of Exeter at Burghley House
February 4, 1845 - Westminster, London - Opening Session of Parliament - Queen Victoria's speech about Tsar Nicholas and the King of France's visits
June 6, 1845 - Buckingham Palace - Ball costumé with the theme of George II's reign
June 21, 1845 - Spithead - Review of the Fleet
July 1(?), 1845 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria receives the King of the Netherlands
August 6, 1845 - Antwerp, Belgium - Victoria and Albert land at Antwerp
August 9, 1845 - (While on the way to Brühl) - Aberdeen Act - "An Act to carry into execution a Convention between Queen Victoria and the Emperor of Brazil, for the regulation and final abolition of the African Slave Trade" - The act gave the Royal Navy authority to stop and search any brazilian ship suspected of being a slave ship on the high seas, and to arrest slave traders caught on these ships - It provokes outrage in Brazil
August 11, 1845 - Schloss Brühl, Brühl, 20 km S of Cologne - Victoria and Albert arrive in Brühl to visit Frederick William IV of Prussia at Aachen, Cologne and Bonn
August 14, 1845 - Stolzenfels (Koblenz) - Victoria and Albert depart Brühl and arrive in Stolzenfels
August 16, 1845 - Stolzenfels (Koblenz) | Mainz - Concert by Franz Liszt at Stolzenfels Castle to Queen Victoria. She and Albert arrive at Hotel de l'Europe, Mainz, to visit Crown Prince William of Prussia
August 18, 1845 - Schloss Würzburg, Würzburg-Bavaria - Victoria and Albert arrive to Schloss Würzburg to visit Luitpold, Prince Regent of Bavaria
August 19, 1845 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Victoria and Albert arrive to Schloss Rosenau to visit Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
August 27, 1845 - Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda - Victoria and Albert arrive at Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda
August 28, 1845 - Schloss Friedrichsthal, Gotha - Victoria and Albert arrive at Schloss Friedrichsthal, Gotha, to visit Karoline Amalie, Dowager Duchess of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
September 3, 1845 - Schloss Eisenach, Eisenach | Fulda - Victoria and Albert visit Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Victoria and Albert arrive in Fulda
September 4, 1845 - Frankfurt - Victoria and Albert receive Ludwig I of Bavaria at the Hotel d'Angleterre
September 5, 1845 - Deutz - Victoria and Albert stay at an hotel in Deutz
September 6, 1845 - Antwerp, Belgium - Visit to Leopold I of Belgium
September 8, 1845 - Château d'Eu, Normandy, France - Victoria and Albert visit King Louis Philippe I at Château d'Eu in Normandy
September 9, 1845 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria and Albert settle again at Osborn House, a private estate on the Isle of Wight
December 13, 1845 - Windsor - Interview with Lord John
January 14, 1846 - Westminster, London - Victoria attends the State Opening of Parliament
May 25, 1846 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Helena is born
July 25, 1846 - Buckingham Palace - Baptism of Princess Helena
June 15, 1847 - Queen's Theatre, Haymarket - The Queen attends Bellini's Opera "Norma", and is delighted by Jenny Lind's performance
August 11, 1847 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria and Albert depart to Scotland by the west, aboard the yacht "Victoria and Albert"
August 12, 1847 - Scilly Islands - Victoria and Albert spend a night at the Scilly Islands
August 14, 1847 - Ardverikie, Scotland - Victoria and Albert rent Ardverikie by Loch Laggan
August 18, 1847 - Inveraray Castle - Arrival at Inveraray Castle
September 17, 1847 - Fleetwood | Liverpool - Victoria and Albert return to England, by ship to Fleetwood, then take the train at Liverpool
September 18, 1847 - London - Return to London
March 18, 1848 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Louise is born
April 10(?), 1848 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria and her family depart London for the greater safety of Osborn House, at the height of a revolutionary scare in the United Kingdom
May 2, 1848 - Buckingham Palace - Return to Buckingham Palace
May 13, 1848 - Buckingham Palace - Baptism of Princess Louise
May 15, 1848 - Stafford House, London - Chopin plays for an audience that includes Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
September 5, 1848 - Westminster, London | Woolwich - Queen Victoria prorogues Parliament in person. She embarks at Woolwich for Aberdeen
September 8, 1848 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria and Albert visit Balmoral for the first time
October 9, 1848 - Between Osborne House and Portsmouth - Victoria's yacht "Fairy" runs down a boat belonging to the Grampus frigate and thee women drown
May 19, 1849 - Constitution Hill, near Buckingham Palace, London - Unemployed irishman William Hamilton fires a powder-filled pistol at Victoria's carriage. Hamilton is sentenced to seven years' transportation
August 3, 1849 - Cork, Ireland - The Royal yacht anchors at Cork, Ireland
August 6, 1849 - Dublin, Ireland - Letter to the Belgian King
August 11, 1849 - Belfast, Northern Ireland - Queen Victoria visits Belfast for five hours
August(?) 13(?), 1849 - Glasgow, Scotland - Public visit to Glasgow
August(?) 15(?), 1849 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Arrival in Balmoral
March 9, 1850 - Buckingham Palace - The Queen has dinner with Macaulay, the paymaster-general
May 1, 1850 - Buckingham Palace - Prince Arthur is born
June 22, 1850 - Buckingham Palace - Prince Arthur's baptism
June 27, 1850 - Cambridge House, Piccadilly - Queen Victoria is assaulted by a possibly insane ex-army officer, Robert Pate. As Victoria is riding in a carriage, Pate strikes her with his cane, crushing her bonnet and bruising her forehead. Pate is sentenced to seven years' transportation
July 3, 1850 - Buckingham Palace - The "Koh-i-Noor" diamond is formally presented to Queen Victoria by the deputy chairman of the East India Company
January 14, 1851 - Windsor - Meeting with Macaulay
February 4, 1851 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
May 1, 1851 - Crystal Palace, London - Queen Victoria opens the "Great Exhibition", the first of the World's Fair exhibitions of culture and industry
June 13, 1851 - Buckingham Palace - Ball costumé with the theme of Charles II's reign
July 9, 1851 - Guildhall, London - The Queen attends a ball at the Guildhall which celebrated the success of the Exhibition
October 9(?), 1851 - Liverpool - Visit to Liverpool
October 10, 1851 - Salford, Manchester - Visit to Peel Park, Salford
October 12(?), 1851 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria arrives in Balmoral
November 11, 1852 - Westminster, London - The Queen opens the new Parliament with Lord Derby as prime-minister again
November 18, 1852 - Buckingham Palace, London - Queen Victoria witnesses the funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington
April 7, 1853 - Buckingham Palace - Prince Leopold is born
June 28, 1853 - Buckingham Palace - Baptism of Prince Leopold
August 11, 1853 - Spithead - The Queen holds a Naval Review of the Fleet
August 28, 1853 - London - Victoria and Albert take a train to Holyhead, Wales
August 29, 1853 - Holyhead, Wales | Dublin, Ireland - Victoria and Albert sail to Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) on the royal yacht. They arrive in Dublin with their sons Princes Edward & Alfred to show public support for the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1853
September 3, 1853 - Dublin - Victoria and Albert depart Dublin
September 28, 1853 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria lays the foundation stone to the extension of the castle to build to have space for the growing family
January 31, 1854 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
February 27, 1854 - Buckingham Palace - The Queen sends a message to the House of Lords announcing the breakdown of negotiations with Russia
February 28, 1854 - Buckingham Palace - Great Britain declares WAR to Russia! France and Sardinia affirm their readiness to fight at Britain's side
March 10, 1854 - Spithead - Queen Victoria reviews the great fleet which is destined for the Baltic under Sir Charles Napier
May 11, 1854 - Buckingham Palace - Victoria (wearing her wedding dress) and Albert are photographed by Roger Fenton
May 12, 1854 - French Embassy, London - The Queen, by way of acknowledging the alliance into which she had entered with the emperor, pays the French ambassador, Count Walewski, the high compliment of attending a bal costumé at the French embassy at Albert Gate
May 13, 1854 - Woolwich - Queen Victoria christens the battleship "Royal Albert"
June 1(?), 1854 - Queen Victoria entertains for a month her cousin Pedro V, the new King of Portugal, and his brother Luis, Duke of Oporto (future King Luis I)
June 10, 1854 - Sydenham - Queen Victoria opens the Crystal Palace, which had been transfered from Hyde Park after the Great Exhibition
October 11, 1854 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria departs Balmoral
October 13, 1854 - Hull - Visit to Hull. Victoria writes a letter to her uncle Leopold, King of Belgium
April 16, 1855 - Windsor - Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie visit London, then go to Windsor
April 21, 1855 - Buckingham Palace - Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie depart London
August 8, 1855 - Saint-Cloud, France - Victoria and Albert return Napoleon III's visit
August 25, 1855 - Versailles, France - Napoleon III offers a supper to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert at the Château de Versailles. She is introduced for the first time to Count (afterwards Prince) Bismarck, then prussian minister at Frankfurt
August 27, 1855 - Boulogne - Victoria and Albert depart to Osborn House, via Boulogne
August 29, 1855 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Letter to Empress Eugénie
September 10, 1855 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria receives news of the fall of Sebastopol, in Crimea
November 1(?), 1855 - Windsor - The Court moves to Windsor
January 29, 1856 - Queen Victoria introduces the Victory Cross to honor acts of valour during the Crimean War
January 31, 1856 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens Parliament amidst great rejoicing for the peace with Russia
April 16, 1856 - Chatham - Visit to the military hospital at Chatham
April 17, 1856 - Aldershot - Visit to the newly formed camp at Aldershot. On 18th, the Queen reviews 18,000 men on horseback
May 7, 1856 - Buckingham Palace - Banquet to the leaders of both parties and their wives
May 9, 1856 - Buckingham Palace - The new ball-room and concert-room at Buckingham Palace, which Prince Albert had devised, is brought into use for the first time on the occasion of a ball in honour of the Princess Royal's début
May 19, 1856 - Netley, near Southampton - Lays foundation stones of a hospital at Netley
May 27, 1856 - London - Ball at the turkish ambassador's
June 2, 1856 - Sandhurst - Lays foundation stones of Wellington College, Sandhurst, for the sons of officers
June 7, 1856 - Aldershot - On 7th and 8th June, the Queen inspects a great body of troops, accompanied by the King of the Belgians and Prince Oscar of Sweden
June 10, 1856 - Windsor - "Scottish" Ball in Waterloo Gallery at Windsor
June 20, 1856 - Buckingham Palace - The Queen entertains Sir Fenwick Williams of Kars
June 26, 1856 - Grosvenor House - The Duke of Westminster gives a ball in Queen Victoria's honour
July 9, 1856 - Buckingham Palace - State reception of the guards on their home-coming from Crimea
October(?) 1(?), 1856 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - The Queen receives Florence Nightingale at Balmoral
April 14, 1857 - Buckingham Palace - Princess Beatrice is born
June 16, 1857 - Buckingham Palace - Baptism of Princess Beatrice
June 17, 1857 - Crystal Palace, London - The Court attends the first Händel festival, where "Judas Maccabeus" is performed
June 25, 1857 - Buckingham Palace - Queen Victoria confers her husband the title of "Prince Consort"
June 26, 1857 - Hyde Park, London - First Victoria Cross awarding ceremony. Queen Victoria invests 62 of the 111 Crimean recipients
June 29, 1857 - Manchester - The Queen stays with the Earl of Ellesmere at Worsley Hall to inspect the art treasures exhibition at Manchester
August 6, 1857 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Napoleon III and Ministers Waleswski and Persigny, visit Victoria and Albert
August 19, 1857 - Cherbourg, France - Victoria and Albert cross the Channel to Cherbourg to inspect the dockyard
August 28, 1857 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria departs to Balmoral
September 16, 1857 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria departs Balmoral to London
December 3, 1857 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament - Speech about the rebellion in India
January 14, 1858 - (While in London) - An Italian refugee from Britain called Felice Orsini attempts to assassinate Napoleon III with a bomb made in England. The ensuing diplomatic crisis destabilises the government, and Palmerston resigns. Derby is reinstated as prime-minister
January 25, 1858 - London - Victoria and Albert attend the Marriage of their eldest daughter and Prince Frederick William of Prussia
August 5, 1858 - Cherbourg - Victoria and Albert attend the opening of a new basin at the french military port of Cherbourg, in an attempt by Napoleon III to reassure Britain that his military preparations are directed elsewhere
August 11, 1858 - Breidenbacher Hof, Düsseldorf - Victoria arrives in Breidenbacher Hof, Düsseldorf
August 12, 1858 - Herrenhausen, Hanover | Potsdam, Brandenburg - Visiting George V of Hanover in Herrenhausen. On the same day travels to Babelsberg Palace to visit Crown Prince William of Prussia
August 28, 1858 - Cologne - Victoria arrives to the Hotel de Bellevue in Cologne
August 30, 1858 - Cologne - Victoria leaves the Hotel de Bellevue and departs Cologne
August 31, 1858 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria and Albert reach Osborne House via Antwerp and Dover
September(?) 1(?), 1858 - On her return Victoria writes to Derby reprimanding him for the poor state of the Royal Navy in comparison to the French one
January 20, 1859 - Sandhurst - Victoria opens Wellington College for the sons of officers
February 3, 1859 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament - Declares that England would be no party to the Emperor Napoleon's ambitious designs
April 7, 1859 - Buckingham Palace - Dress ball in honor of the sixth birthday of Queen Victoria's youngest son, Prince Leopold
June 12, 1859 - Buckingham Palace - Victoria recalls Viscount Palmerston to office
August 26, 1859 - Portsmouth - Victoria inspects the 32rd regiment, whence the heroes of Lucknow had been drawn
December 21, 1859 - Windsor - Letter to a woman called "Minnie", praising the effects of chloroform in childbirth
January 4, 1860 - Windsor Castle - Victoria Cross awarding ceremony
January 24, 1860 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
March 7, 1860 - St.James's Palace, London - Victoria holds a special levee of 2,500 volunteer officers
June 23, 1860 - Hyde Park, London - Queen Victoria reviews 20,000 men
September 22, 1860 - Gravesend, Kent - Queen Victoria and Princess Alice depart to Antwerp
September 23, 1860 - Antwerp, Belgium - Arrival in Antwerp
September 24, 1860 - Frankfurt - Victoria arrives at the Hotel d'Angleterre
September 25, 1860 - Coburg - Visit to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
September 29, 1860 - Rosenau - Queen Victoria meets Gustav Freytag
October 10, 1860 - Mainz - Victoria arrives to the Rheinische Hof Hotel
October 11, 1860 - Electoral Palace, Koblenz - Visit to Crown Prince William of Prussia
October 13, 1860 - Brussels, Belgium - Victoria arrives at the Royal Palace of Brussels for a visit to Leopold I of Belgium
November 30, 1860 - Windsor - Prince Louis of Hesse pays a visit to Windsor
December 25, 1860 - Windsor - Christmas and New year's eve at Windsor
February 4, 1861 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
February 5, 1861 - Adelphi Theatre, London - Victoria goes to see an irish play by Dion Boucicault's called "The Colleen Bawn"
March 16, 1861 - (While in Buckingham Palace) - Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, dies
August 21, 1861 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria, Albert, Princesses Alice and Helena and Prince Arthur depart to Ireland
August 22, 1861 - Kingston, Dublin, Ireland - Victoria and Albert arrive in Ireland
August 24, 1861 - Curragh, S of Dublin - Victoria and Albert visit their son, the Prince of Wales, who is attending army manoeuvres at curragh camp, south of Dublin, and spend a few days holidaying in Killarney
August 26, 1861 - Killarney, SW Ireland - The Royal family travels to the southwest of Ireland by train
August 29, 1861 - Dublin, Ireland - Victoria and Albert depart Ireland
September 4, 1861 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria is visited by her half-sister, the Princess Leiningen
October 22, 1861 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Stop at Edinburgh so that Prince Albert could lay foundation-stones of a new post office and the industrial museum of Scotland
October 23, 1861 - Windsor - Victoria and Albert return to Windsor
November 25, 1861 - (While in Windsor) - Ill and at a low ebb, Prince Albert travels to Cambridge to confront his son, the Prince of Wales, to discuss his indiscreet affair with irish actress Nellie Clifden
December 9, 1861 - Windsor Castle - Prince Albert is diagnosed with Typhoid Fever
December 14, 1861 - Windsor Castle - Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dies of typhoid fever, aged 42. Victoria is devastated
December 19, 1861 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria retires to Osborne House
August 21, 1862 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - The Queen lays the foundations of a cairn "to the beloved memory of Albert the Great and Good, Prince Consort, raised by his broken-hearted widow"
September 2, 1862 - Laeken, Belgium - Victoria arrives at the Royal Palace of Laeken for a visit to Leopold I of Belgium
September 5, 1862 - Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda - Victoria arrives for a stay at Reinhardsbrunn, Friedrichroda
October 3, 1862 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Visit to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
October 18, 1862 - Laeken, Belgium - Victoria arrives at the Royal Palace of Laeken for another visit to Leopold I of Belgium
March 5, 1863 - St.George's Chapel, Windsor - Marriage of the Prince of Wales, Victoria's eldest son. She plays no part in the ceremony, but witnesses it from a gallery overlooking the chancel
April 5, 1863 - Windsor Castle - Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Queen Victoria's granddaughter, is born
August 12, 1863 - Laeken, Belgium - Victoria arrives at the Royal Palace of Laeken for a visit to Leopold I of Belgium
August 15, 1863 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Visit to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
August 31, 1863 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - At Victoria's request, the King of Prussia pays her a visit
September 3, 1863 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Queen Victoria is visited by Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria
October(?) 1(?), 1863 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Autumn stay in Balmoral
October 13, 1863 - Aberdeen, Scotland - Victoria unveils a bronze statue of the Prince Consort
December 1(?), 1863 - Windsor - The Queen receives The Crown Prince and Princess of Prussia, the Princess of Denmark and her husband
January 8, 1864 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Interview with the prussian envoy, Theodor von Bernhardi
February 4, 1864 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
March 30, 1864 - The Queen attends a flower show at the Horticultural gardens
August 11, 1865 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Victoria visits Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
February 10, 1866 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
March 13, 1866 - Aldershot - The Queen reviews troops
April 5, 1866 - Aldershot - The Queen reviews troops
June 12, 1866 - Kew - Victoria attends Princess Mary's wedding
June 19, 1866 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Lord Russell forwards his resignation to Balmoral
July 5, 1866 - Windsor - Victoria attends the solemnization of marriage of her third daughter, Helena, with Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein
October 1(?), 1866 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - The Queen withraws to Balmoral
October 16, 1866 - Invercannie, Scotland - Victoria opens the Aberdeen waterworks at Invercannie
November 30, 1866 - Wolverhampton - Visit to Wolverhampton
February 5, 1867 - Westminster, London - Victoria opens the Parliament
July 12, 1867 - Buckingham Palace - Abdul Aziz, the Ottoman Sultan, is received in Buckingham Palace
August 21, 1867 - Kelso, Scotland - Two-days stay with the Duke and Duchess of Roxburgh at Floors Castle
September 24, 1867 - Glenfiddich, Scotland - Visit to the Duke of Richmond
October 15, 1867 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - A large statue of Albert with a dog and a gun by William Theed, is inaugurated on 15 October 1867, the twenty-eighth anniversary of their engagement
March 10, 1868 - Buckingham Palace - For the first time since her widowhood, Queen Victoria holds a drawing-room at Buckingam Palace
June 20, 1868 - Windsor Park - Queen Victoria reviews 27,000 volunteers
June 22, 1868 - Buckingham Palace - Queen Victoria gives a public "breakfast" or afternoon party in the gardens of Buckingham Palace
August 6, 1868 - Paris - Victoria arrives in Paris
August 7, 1868 - Lucerne, Switzerland - Victoria arrives in Pension Wallis, Lucerne
September 10, 1868 - Paris | St.Cloud - Queen Victoria revisits St.Cloud
September(?) 15(?), 1868 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Return to England. Retires to Balmoral
December 14, 1868 - Frogmore, Windsor Castle - A special service is held at the Frogmore mausoleum, destined to hold her remains as well as those of the Prince
April 17, 1869 - Aldershot - Review of troops
June 28, 1869 - Buckingham Palace - Breakfast in honour of the Khedive of Egypt
November 6, 1869 - London - Arrival in London from Balmoral, for a visit
January(?) 1(?), 1870 - (While in London?) - In 1870, republican sentiment in Britain, fed by the Queen's seclusion, is boosted after the establishment of the Third French Republic. A republican rally in Trafalgar Square demanded Victoria's removal, and Radical MPs speak against her
January(?) (?), 1871 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria is taken seriously ill with an abscess in her armpit (until september). Surgeon Joseph Lister is called to Balmoral. Armed with carbolic acid, Lister lances the mass, drains its pus, and dresses and treats the wound to prevent infection—but at one point, he accidentally sprays his disinfectant in the displeased queen's face.
July 4, 1871 - Windsor Castle - The Emperor of Brazil, Pedro II and his wife visit Windsor Castle, where they are received by Queen Victoria
July 5, 1871 - London - Queen Victoria returns the visit and meets with the brazilian imperial couple in the Hotel Claridges
November 30(?), 1871 - (While at Balmoral Castle, Scotland) - The Prince of Wales contracts typhoid fever as his father, and Victoria is fearful her son would die
February 27, 1872 - St.Paul's Cathedral, London - Victoria and the Prince of Wales attend a public parade through London and a grand service of thanksgiving in St.Paul's Cathedral
February 28(?), 1872 - Buckingham Palace - On the last day of February 1872, two days after the thanksgiving service, 17-year-old Arthur O'Connor (great-nephew of Irish MP Feargus O'Connor) waves an unloaded pistol at Victoria's open carriage just after she had arrived at Buckingham Palace. Brown, who is attending the Queen, grabs him and O'Connor is later sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment. As a result of the incident, Victoria's popularity recovers further
March 25, 1872 - Villa Delmar, Baden-Baden, Germany - Victoria arrives in Villa Delmar to visit Princess Feodora of Leiningen
April 8, 1872 - Villa Delmar, Baden-Baden, Germany - Victoria departs to England
May 2, 1872 - Windsor(?) - Victoria receives the Empress of Germany
September 6, 1872 - Dunrobin Castle, Scotland - Visit to her daughter-in-law, after the loss of her mother, the Duchess of Sutherland
April 2, 1873 - East End, London - The Queen opens Victoria Park
June 20, 1873 - Windsor - Victoria receives the Shah of Persia
June 24, 1873 - Windsor Park - The Shah of Persia accompanies Queen Victoria in a review
April 23, 1874 - Gosport - Queen Victoria reviews sailors, marines and soldiers who had taken part in the Ashanti War
February 1(?), 1875 - Westminster, London - The Queen opens the Parliament
August 18, 1875 - Off Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria's yacht runs down another yacht, the "Mistletoe", and causes the drowning of three occupants in her presence
September 17, 1875 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria takes an affectionate leave of the Prince of Wales to India
February 8, 1876 - (While in Buckingham Palace(?)) - Disraeli pushes the Royal Titles Act 1876 through Parliament, so that Victoria takes the title "Empress of India" from 1 May 1876
February 25, 1876 - Royal Albert Hall, London - The Queen attends a concert given by her command
March 7, 1876 - London - Victoria opens a new wing of the London Hospital
March 29, 1876 - Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden - Victoria arrives at Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
April 10, 1876 - Schloss Rosenau, Coburg - Visit to Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
May 2, 1876 - Aldershot - The Queen reviews troops at Aldershot
May 11, 1876 - London - The Queen welcomes the Prince of Wales, arriving from India
August 17, 1876 - Edinburgh, Scotland - Victoria unveils another Prince Albert memorial
September 26, 1876 - Ballater, Scotland - Queen Victoria presents new colours to her father's old regiment, the royal Scots
December 25, 1876 - Windsor - Christmas at Windsor for the first time since Prince Albert's death
January 1, 1877 - (While in Windsor) - Victoria is proclaimed "Empress of India" at the Delhi Durbar
April 1(?), 1877 - ? - Until February 1878, Victoria threatens five times to abdicate while pressuring Disraeli to act against Russia during the Russo-Turkish War, but her threats had no impact on the events or their conclusion with the Congress of Berlin
July 2, 1877 - Windsor Castle - Letter to Princess Victoria of Germany about the eccentricity of the clothes of the Emperor of Brazil, which caused some shock in the State Ball and Concert (as they had caused in the soirées of the court in Berlin)
December 21, 1877 - High Wycombe - Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice travel by train from Windsor to High Wycombe station, where Lord Beaconsfield and his secretary Mr.Montagu Corry meet her
April 29, 1878 - Windsor - The Queen holds her first investiture as Empress of India
May 13, 1878 - Aldershot - Queen Victoria reviews troops in company with the crown prince of Prussia
June 25, 1878 - Windsor - Victoria attends the funeral of the dethroned King of Hanover, her cousin
July 22, 1878 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria invests Lord Beaconsfield with the Order of the Garter
August 13, 1878 - Spithead - Review of the Fleet
December 14, 1878 - Princess Alice, Victoria's second daughter, dies of diphtheria on the anniversary of Albert's death, at Darmstadt
March 13, 1879 - Windsor - Queen Victoria attends the marriage of her third son, the Duke of Connaught, to the daughter of Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia
March 26, 1879 - Paris - Victoria arrives at the British Embassy in Paris
March 28, 1879 - Baveno, Italy - Victoria arrives in Villa Clara, Baveno
April 24, 1879 - Paris - Victoria returns to the British Embassy in Paris
February 5, 1880 - Westminster, London - Queen Victoria opens the Parliament
March 27, 1880 - Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden - Victoria arrives at Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
March 30, 1880 - Darmstadt - Victoria attends the confirmations of Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine and Princess Elizabeth of Hesse and by Rhine
April 1, 1880 - Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden - Victoria returns to Villa Hohenlohe, Baden-Baden
April 21, 1880 - Windsor - Back at Windsor
October 11, 1881 - Abergeldie Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria attends Mr.Burnand's Comedy "The Colonel" performed by a Company of London
March 2, 1882 - Windsor Railway Station - Roderick Maclean, a disgruntled poet apparently offended by Victoria's refusal to accept one of his poems, shoots at the Queen as her carriage leaves Windsor railway station. Two schoolboys from Eton College strike him with their umbrellas, until he is hustled away by a policeman. Victoria is outraged when he is found not guilty by reason of insanity, but is so pleased by the many expressions of loyalty after the attack that she says it was "worth being shot at—to see how much one is loved"
March(?) 3(?), 1882 - Cherbourg, France(?) - Queen Victoria and her youngest daughter, Princess Beatrice, arrive in France aboard the yacht "Victoria and Albert"
March 16, 1882 - Menton, France - Queen Victoria arrives at the Chalet des Rosiers in Menton by train and carriage, where the rail magnate Charles Henfrey had offered her the use of his villa
April 12, 1882 - Menton, France - Victoria departs Menton
April 16, 1882 - Aldershot - Queen Victoria reviews troops
April 23, 1882 - ? - Unpublished correspondence of Queen Victoria to Prime Minister Gladstone: "Punishment deters not only sane men but also eccentric men, whose supposed involuntary acts are really produced by a diseased brain capable of being acted upon by external influence. A knowledge that they would be protected by an acquittal on the grounds of insanity will encourage these men to commit desperate acts, while on the other hand certainty that they will not escape punishment will terrify them into a peaceful attitude towards others"
April 27, 1882 - Windsor Castle - Queen Victoria attends the marriage of her son Prince Leopold with Princess Helene Friederike
August 17, 1882 - Parkhurst, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria presents new colours to the 2nd battalion of the Berkshire Regiment, which had lost their old colours at Maiwand in Afghanistan
September 12, 1882 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Diary: "My thoughts are entirely fixed on Egypt and the coming battle"
September 13, 1882 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Queen Victoria celebrates the victory at Tel-el-Kebir with a bonfire lit on top of Craig Gowan
March 17, 1883 - Windsor - Victoria falls down some stairs at Windsor, which leave her lame until July; she never fully recovers and is plagued with rheumatism thereafter
November 18, 1883 - St.James's Palace, London - Queen Victoria reviews 8,000 troops who had just returned from Egypt
March 28, 1884 - Windsor - Victoria is informed by telegram that her youngest son, Leopold, had died in Cannes
April 17, 1884 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Queen Victoria attends the Wedding of Prince Louis of Battenberg and Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine
April 1, 1885 - Aix-les-Bains, France - Victoria arrives at Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe
April 22, 1885 - "via Switzerland" - Travelling to Darmstadt via Switzerland
April 23, 1885 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Victoria attends the confirmation of Prince Ernest Louis of Hesse
July 23, 1885 - Whippingham, near Osbourne - Queen Victoria attends Princess Beatrice's marriage
January 21, 1886 - Westminster, London - The Queen opens the Parliament for the last time
February 26, 1886 - Royal Albert Hall, London - Queen Victoria listens to Gounod's "Mors et Vita"
May 1, 1886 - South Kensington - Queen Victoria visits a colonial and indian exhibition
May 11, 1886 - Liverpool - Queen Victoria opens the International Exhibition of Navigation, Commerce and Industry
June 30, 1886 - Windsor - Queen Victoria entertains a group of indian and colonial visitors at lunch
July 2, 1886 - Aldershot - Queen Victoria attends a review in honour of the indian and colonial visitors
March 10, 1887 - Marlborough House, Westminster, London - Dinner with the Princes of Wales
March 19, 1887 - London - Queen Victoria spends 10 days in London
March 22, 1887 - ? - Queen Victoria departs England for Florence
April 1, 1887 - Cannes, France - Victoria Arrives at Villa Edelweiss
April 6, 1887 - Aix-les-Bains, France - Victoria Arrives to Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe
May 11, 1887 - London - Performance of Buffalo Bill's "Wild West Show" to Queen Victoria
May 14, 1887 - East End, London - Victoria opens the People's Palace
June 20, 1887 - Frogmore House, Windsor | Paddington | Buckingham Palace - Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of her accession on 20 June 1837. It is celebrated with a banquet to which 50 European kings and princes are invited. The Queen has breakfast outdoors under the trees at Frogmore, where Prince Albert had been buried. Second private performance of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show to the Queen and her guests. She then travels by train from Windsor Castle to Paddington then to Buckingham Palace for a royal banquet that evening. Fifty foreign kings and princes, along with the governing heads of Britain's overseas colonies and dominions, attend. She wrote in her diary: "Had a large family dinner. All the Royalties assembled in the Bow Room, and we dined in the Supper-room, which looked splendid with the buffet covered with the gold plate. The table was a large horseshoe one, with many lights on it. The King of Denmark took me in, and Willy of Greece sat on my other side. The Princes were all in uniform, and the Princesses were all beautifully dressed. Afterwards we went into the Ballroom, where my band played"
June 23, 1887 - Frogmore House, Windsor - Queen Victoria is served at breakfast by Abdul Karim and Mohammed Buksh
July 9, 1887 - Aldershot - Review at Aldershot
July 29, 1887 - Spithead - Review of the Fleet
August 3, 1887 - ? - Queen Victoria's diary: "I am learning a few words of Hindustani to speak to my servants. It is a great interest to me for both the language and the people, I have naturally never come into real contact with before."
August 20, 1887 - Queen Victoria has some "excellent curry" made by one of the servants
August 30, 1887 - Abdul Karim begins teaching Urdu to Queen Victoria
December 1(?), 1887 - Queen Victoria uses her knowledge of Urdu to greet Maharani Chimnabal of Baroda during an audience
March 24, 1888 - Fiesole, near Florence - Victoria arrives at Villa Palmieri, Fiesole
April 5, 1888 - Florence, Italy - King Humbert visits Queen Victoria
April 6, 1888 - Florence - Queen Victoria receives the Emperor of Brazil, Peter II
April 23, 1888 - Innsbruck Railway Station, Austria - Stopover luncheon with Franz Joseph I of Austria
April 24, 1888 - Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin - Visiting Frederick III, German Emperor. Meeting with Prince Bismarck
April 26, 1888 - Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin - Victoria departs Berlin
August 1(?), 1888 - Queen Victoria promotes Abdul Karim to "Munshi" (Clerk/teacher)
March 5, 1889 - Portsmouth - Queen Victoria departs to Bordeaux, France
March 7, 1889 - Bordeaux | Biarritz, SW France - Arrival in Bordeaux. Then, Queen Victoria reaches Villa Rochefoucauld in Biarritz by carriage
March 13, 1889 - Biarritz, SW France - Letter to the Queen Regent of Spain
March 27, 1889 - San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain | Biarritz, SW France - During a stay in Biarritz, Queen victoria crosses the border to Spain for a brief visit for the first time for a british Monarch, and is received at San Sebastian by Queen Maria Christina. Queen Victoria returns to Villa La Rochefoucauld, Biarritz
April 26, 1889 - Sandringham - Albert Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), hosts a performance of "The Bells and the Merchant of Venice" for the Queen at his home, with the presence of Henry Irving, Arminius Vámbéry and Bram Stoker. Abdul Karim finds he had been allocated a seat with the servents. Feeling insulted, he retired to his room. The Queen took his part, stating that he should have been seated among the Household
May 18, 1889 - Eton - Lays the foundation-stone of new buildings at Eton
May 31, 1889 - Aldershot - Reviewing troops
June 3, 1889 - Windsor - Presents new colours to the regiment with which she had already closely identified herself, Princess Victoria's Royal Irish Fusiliers
June 4, 1889 - Eton - The Queen witnesses the annual procession of boats which celebrated George III's birthday
June 27, 1889 - Buckingham Palace - Attends the marriage of her Granddaughter, Princess Louise of Wales, to the Earl of Fife
August 8, 1889 - Spithead - The Queen holds a naval review in honor of the visiting Wilhelm II, german Kaiser
August 9, 1889 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria reviews the seamen and marines of the German fleet
September 1(?), 1889 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Stay at Balmoral. Queen Victoria and Abdul Karim stay alone in seclusion for one night at the remote cottage Glassalt Shiel at Loch Muick
November 14, 1889 - Queen Victoria approves a Royal Charter from the British Government for Cecil Rhodes and his British South Africa Company (BSAC) to rule, police, and make new treaties and concessions from the Limpopo River to the great lakes of Central Africa
March 1, 1890 - Dr.James Reid writes that the Queen was "visiting Abdul twice daily, in his room taking Hindustani lessons, signing her boxes, examining his neck, smoothing his pillows, etc."
March 26, 1890 - Aix-les-Bains, France - Victoria arrives at Maison Mottet, Hotel de l'Europe
April 22, 1890 - Geneva | Lucerne, Switzerland - Stopovers at Geneva and Lucerne
April 23, 1890 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Visit to Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
April 29, 1890 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Victoria departs Darmstadt
May 14, 1890 - Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire - Victoria pays a visit to Baron Ferdinand de Rothchild's château
July 4, 1890 - Chelsea, London - Victoria inspects the military exhibition at Chelsea Hospital
July 11, 1890 - Letter to Landsdowne and the Secretary of State for India, Lord Cross, for "a grant of land to her really exemplary and excellent young Munshi, Hafiz Abdul Karim"
July 26, 1890 - Southampton - Victoria opens the deep-water dock at Southampton
February 26, 1891 - Portsmouth - Queen Victoria christens and launches the "Royal Sovereign", the largest ironclad in the fleet, and the "Royal Arthur", an unarmoured cruiser of new design
March 6, 1891 - Windsor Castle - Performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "The Gondoliers"
March 23, 1891 - Medieval Grasse, foothills of French Alps, near Cannes Bay - Queen victoria arrives to see Alice de Rothschild's gardens at the Villa Victoria
March 25, 1891 - Grasse, France - Victoria arrives at the Grand Hotel, Grasse
April 2, 1891 - Grasse - The Emperor of Brazil, Peter II, visits Queen Victoria
April 29, 1891 - Grasse - Victoria departs Grasse
May 21, 1891 - Derby, England - Lays the foundation-stone of the new royal infirmary at Derby
March 21, 1892 - Hyères, France - Victoria arrives at the Grand Hotel de Costebelle, Hyères
April 25, 1892 - Hyères, France - Queen Victoria departs Hyères for Darmstadt in Germany
April 26, 1892 - Neues Palais, Darmstadt - Victoria visits her orphaned grandchildren after the death of Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse
May 10, 1892 - South Kensington - The Queen opens the Imperial Institute
June 27, 1892 - Aldershot - Victoria lays the foundation-stone of a new church at Aldershot, and witnesses the march past of 10,000 men
December 25, 1892 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Victoria spends Christmas at Osborn House
March 2, 1893 - Windsor - Gladstone goes to Windsor to resign his office
March 23, 1893 - Fiesole, near Florence - Second Visit to Villa Palmieri, Fiesole
April 26, 1893 - Fiesole, near Florence - Victoria departs Villa Palmieri
July 6, 1893 - St.James's Palace, London - The Queen attends the Duke of York's marriage
March 16, 1894 - Florence, Italy - Victoria arrives at Villa Fabbricotti, Florence
April 16, 1894 - Florence, Italy - Victoria departs Villa Fabbricotti
April 17, 1894 - Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg - Victoria arrives at Schloss Ehrenburg to attend the Wedding of her granddaughter Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Edinburgh
April 19, 1894 - Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg - Queen Victoria attends the marriage of her granddaughter Princess Victoria Melita of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Edinburgh and Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
April 28, 1894 - Schloss Ehrenburg, Coburg - Queen Victoria departs Schloss Ehrenburg
May 21, 1894 - Manchester - Opening of the Manchester Canal. The Queen knights the Lord Mayor
June 16, 1894 - Windsor - Queen Victoria enjoys the company of Princess Alix of Hesse (Alexandra Feorodovna), her granddaughter, while Tsarevich Nicholas visits Sandringham
July 5, 1894 - Windsor - Queen Victoria takes the Tsarevich Nicholas and Princess Alexandra to the Albert Memorial Chapel at St.George's
July 16, 1894 - White Lodge, Richmond - The Queen attends the christening of Edward, the first son of the Duke and Duchess of York
September 23, 1894 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Letter to Tsarevich Nicholas: "We have been so grieved to hear of your dear Father being so unwell…"
March 15, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Annual holiday in the French Riviera at the Grand Hotel, Nice-Cimiez
March 29, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Lord Rosebery, the Prime Minister, cables Queen Victoria that he feared they were rapidly approaching a condition of severe tension with the french government owing to its strange proceedings in Africa and Siam
April 1, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Queen Victoria telegraphs the Marquis of Dufferin, the British Ambassador in Paris: "These questions with France are very annoying and may be serious. Fear our Government are thinking how they can carry on, with trouble in India besides. Trust you can manage to get French Government to do nothing rash and violent, considering that I am here. My having to leave suddenly would create a panic, and be most difficult for me".
April 13, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Lunch with Lord Salisbury
April 23, 1895 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Queen Victoria departs Nice to take the special train to Darmstadt in Germany
April 24, 1895 - Darmstadt - Victoria arrives at the Altes Palais to visit Ernest Louis, Grand Duke of Hesse
June 25, 1895 - Windsor - Lord Salisbury goes to Windsor to kiss hands as Prime Minister for the third time
November 9, 1895 - ? - Queen Victoria celebrates King Carlos I of Portugal's visit by conferring on him the order of the Garter
January 5, 1896 - Letter to Kaiser Wilhelm II: "My dear William, …as your Grandmother to whom you have always shown so much affection and of whose example you have always spoken of with so much respect, I feel I cannot refrain from expressing my deep regret at the telegram you sent President Kruger. It is considered very unfriendly towards this country, which I feel sure it is not intended to be, and has, I grieve to say, made a very painful impression here. The action of Dr.Jameson was of course very wrong and totally unwarranted; but considering the very peculiar position in which the Transvaal stands towards Great Britain, I think it would have been far better to have said nothing. Our great wish has always been to keep in the best terms with Germany, trying to act together, but I fear your Agents in the Colonies do the very reverse, which deeply grieves us. Let me hope you will try and check this."
January 20, 1896 - ? - Prince Henry dies at sea on a ship returning to England, of a fever taken in South Africa
February 5, 1896 - Cowes, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria is present with her widowed daughter at the arrival of Prince Henry's body
March 11, 1896 - Nice-Cimiez, France - The Royal party arrives in Nice-Cimiez
April 29, 1896 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Victoria departs Nice-Cimiez
September 22, 1896 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria welcomes Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra to Balmoral
October 5, 1896 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and Empress Alexandra depart to Russia
March 1(?), 1897 - ? - As the members of the Household prepare to depart for Cimiez for the Queen's annual visit, they insist that Abdul Karim not accompany the royal party, and decide to resign if he did so. When Harriet Phipps, one of the Queen's maids of honour, informs her of the collective decision, the Queen sweeps the contents of her desk onto the floor in a fury. The Household backs down, but the holiday is marred by increased resentment and rows between the Household and Victoria. She thinks their distrust and dislike of Karim is motivated by "race prejudice" and jealousy.
March 11, 1897 - Cherbourg, France - Queen Victoria boards the train as "Countess of Balmoral"
March 12, 1897 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Arrival in Nice. Stay at the Regina Excelsior at Nice-Cimiez
April 29, 1897 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Victoria departs Nice-Cimiez
May 21, 1897 - Sheffield - Victoria goes to Sheffield to open the new Town Hall
June 22, 1897 - outside St.Paul's Cathedral, London - Queen Victoria's Jubilee procession, follows a route six miles long through London and includes troops from all over the Empire. The procession paused for an open-air service of thanksgiving held outside St Paul's Cathedral, throughout which Victoria sat in her open carriage, to avoid her having to climb the steps to enter the building. The celebration was marked by vast crowds of spectators and great outpourings of affection for the 78-year-old Queen
June 26, 1897 - Spithead - Great review of Royal Navy's battleships
February 11, 1898 - Netley Hospital, near Southampton - Visit to the wounded men from India and the Sudan
March 12, 1898 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Stay at the Regina Excelsior at Nice-Cimiez
April 4, 1898 - Villefranche - Queen Victoria meets Leopold II of Belgium, just arrived on his yacht
April 7, 1898 - Nice-Cimiez, France - The Queen attends the Maundy Thursday procession of the Red Penitents
April 28, 1898 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Victoria departs Nice-Cimiez
May 14, 1898 - Netley Hospital, near Southampton - Visit to the wounded men from India and the Sudan
August 1(?), 1898 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria is shown "animated photographs". The film was made by Alfred West during a three-months cruise aboard "HMS Crescent", captained by the Duke of York
October 29, 1898 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria presents the colours to the newly raised 2nd battalion of the Cameron Highlanders
December 3, 1898 - Netley Hospital, near Southampton - Visit to the wounded men from India and the Sudan
March(?) 1(?), 1899 - ? - Members of the Household again insist that Abdul Karim not accompany the royal party when the Queen takes her annual holiday at Cimiez
March 12, 1899 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Stay at the Regina Excelsior at Nice-Cimiez
May 2, 1899 - Nice-Cimiez, France - Victoria departs Nice-Cimiez
May 5, 1899 - Cherbourg, France - Victoria embarks to England
May 17, 1899 - Kensington - Lays the foundation-stone of the new buildings of the Victoria and Albert Museum
July 1, 1899 - Windsor - Reviews in Windsor Great Park the Honourable Artillery Company
November 15, 1899 - Bristol - Victoria goes to Bristol to open the convalescent home which had been erected to commemorate her lenght of rule
November 20, 1899 - Windsor - Visit by the german Kaiser
December 25, 1899 - Windsor - Christmas at Windsor
March 7, 1900 - London - Visit to London
March 22, 1900 - Woolwich - Visit to wounded men from South Africa at the Herbert Hospital
March 27, 1900 - Windsor - Queen Victoria receives the delegates from Australia
April 4, 1900 - Dublin, Ireland - The Boer War is so unpopular in mainland Europe that her annual trip to France seems inadvisable. Instead, the Queen goes to Ireland for the first time since 1861, in part to acknowledge the contribution of Irish regiments to the South African war
May 2, 1900 - Windsor - The Queen returns to Windsor
May 4, 1900 - Windsor - Queen Victoria entertains the King of Sweden and Norway
May 10, 1900 - Buckingham Palace, London - The Queen holds a drawing-room
May 17, 1900 - Netley Hospital, near Southampton - Visit to the wounded men from South Africa
May 22, 1900 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Arrival at Balmoral
June 26, 1900 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Performance of Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana"
July 16, 1900 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Performance of the whole "Faust" opera
July 30, 1900 - (while in Balmoral Castle) - Prince Alfred, Victoria's second son, dies in Coburg
October(?) 20(?), 1900 - Balmoral Castle, Scotland - Victoria's last visit to the estate of Balmoral before dying
November 7, 1900 - Windsor - Queen Victoria returns to Windsor
December 12, 1900 - Windsor - Queen Victoria's last public appearance, by attending a sale of needlework by Irish ladies at the Windsor Town Hall
December 14, 1900 - Frogmore, Windsor Castle - Victoria celebrates the 39th anniversary of the Prince Consort's death
December 18, 1900 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria arrives in Osborn House
January 22, 1901 - Osborne House, Isle of Wight - Queen Victoria dies, aged 81 =(END)
Bibliography
BLOY, Marjorie Dr. - "A Web of English History"
