April 19 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1881
Disraeli dies
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield -- novelist, dandy, twice prime minister and Victoria's beloved Dizzy -- dies in London aged 76. The Queen sends primroses, his favourite flower, to the funeral. Empire, the Suez Canal and the Young England dream were his monuments.