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Chronological Table of Events
| 1880.— | General Election.—Large Liberal Majority.—Mr. Gladstone Prime Minister. |
| 1881. | War in Egypt.—Tel-el-Kebir. |
| 1882. | Marriage of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, to Princess Helen of Waldeck.—The Queen fired at by a Lunatic. |
| 1884. | Death of Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany.—Birth of his posthumous son.—Passing of Mr. Gladstone's Reform Bill giving Household Suffrage in Counties. |
| 1885. | Marriage of Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry of Battenberg.—Death of General Gordon at Khartoum.—Fall of Mr. Gladstone's Ministry.—Marquis of Salisbury Prime Minister.—General Election.—Parties very nearly balanced.—Mr. Gladstone declares himself in favor of Home Rule. |
| 1886. | Lord Salisbury's Government defeated.—Mr. Gladstone forms Government and introduces First Home Rule Bill, defeated in the House of Commons, June.—General Election, July.—Large Unionist Majority.—Lord Salisbury Prime Minister. |
| 1887. | The Jubilee. |
| 1888. | Death of German Emperor, William I., March.—Accession of the Queen's son-in-law, the Emperor Frederick.—His death, June 15th. |
| 1892. | Death of the Queen's heir in the second generation, the Duke of Clarence.—Death of her son-in-law, Prince Louis of Hesse.—General Election.—Liberal majority.—Mr. Gladstone Prime Minister. |
| 1893. | Betrothal and marriage of Duke of York to Princess Victoria Mary of Teck.—Second Home Rule Bill defeated in the House of Lords. |
| 1894. | Birth of Prince Edward of York.—Death of the Czar, Alexander II.—Accession of the young Czar, Nicholas II.—His marriage to the Queen's granddaughter, Princess Alix of Hesse.—Mr. Gladstone retires, and is succeeded in the Premiership by the Earl of Rosebery. |
