Charles Dickens publishes A Christmas Carol - a sensational success. Potato famine begins in Ireland. Brunel builds the S.S Great Britain -first propeller driven steamship ever. Karl Marx and Frederich Engels publish the Communist Manifesto - summed up as the abolition of private property . Charles Dickens publishes David Copperfield - said to be his own favourite.
Crimean war breaks out.
Florence Nightingale goes to Crimea to organise nursing during the war. Crimean war ends. Brunel builds the Great Eastern the biggest steamship of its time. Charles Dickens publishes A Tale of Two Cities based on the French Revolution of 1789. Brunel dies - death caused by overwork and worry.