April 30 in Victorian History
What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.
1859
Dickens launches All the Year Round
Charles Dickens publishes the first number of his new weekly journal, All the Year Round -- and opens it with the first instalment of A Tale of Two Cities. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... After a bitter split with his old publishers, Dickens now owns his magazine outright.