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September 23 in Victorian History

What the Victorians were up to on this date, year by remarkable year.

1846

Neptune is discovered

At the Berlin Observatory, Johann Galle points his telescope where the mathematician Urbain Le Verrier told him to look -- and finds a new planet. Neptune is the first world found by calculation before it was seen. The Victorian universe just got bigger.

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