The Victorian AtlasCabinet of Curiosities
The Victorian calendar

November 13 in Victorian History

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

1887

Bloody Sunday in Trafalgar Square

Police and troops break up a demonstration of the unemployed in Trafalgar Square; two men die and hundreds are injured. The young George Bernard Shaw is in the crowd. Bloody Sunday radicalises a generation of British socialists.

← The full calendar