February 21 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1848
The Communist Manifesto is published
In London, a German workers' society publishes a 23-page pamphlet by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. A spectre is haunting Europe -- the spectre of communism, it begins. Almost unnoticed at first, it will become the most influential political tract of the modern age.