1859年

In 1859, Queen Victoria sat on the throne of Great Britain and Ireland, and the novel A Tale of Two Cities was published. Specifically, on 11月15日, there were exactly 1,000,300,558 human beings on Earth, according to the Bi-Al Foundation's genealogical database. (AUDIO: The Pursuit of History)

Henry Gordon Jago began working in the music halls. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

The Eighth Doctor and Charley Pollard visited Tanganyika in the hope of meeting the Victorian explorer Pieter Mon Marchè. (AUDIO: The Man Who Wasn't Three)