March 4 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1890
The Forth Bridge opens
The Prince of Wales drives home the last rivet -- made of gold -- and the mighty Forth Bridge is declared open. Its three red-steel cantilevers span the Firth of Forth in the greatest engineering feat of the age. Its crimson silhouette becomes the very emblem of Victorian engineering.