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1842
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Update Yeardata: 1842
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Monarch is Queen Victoria. Prime Minister is Robert Peel (Conservative). US President is John Tyler (I-Virginia). Income Tax Act introduces the first peacetime income tax in Britain at 7 pence on the pound for incomes over 150 pounds. The half farthing coin is made legal tender. Paleontologist Richard Owen coins the term "Dinosaur". John Kilner & Co start making Kilner jars, JMW Turner paints and Alfred Tennyson writes poems.
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