<Dd> Birth of The Prince Alfred </Dd> <Dd> The Irish famine begins . Within 5 years it would become the UK's worst human disaster, with starvation and emigration reducing the population of Ireland itself by over 50% . The famine permanently changed Ireland's and Scotland's demographics and became a rallying point for nationalist sentiment that pervaded British politics for much of the following century . </Dd> <Dd> Repeal of the Corn Laws . </Dd> <Dd> Birth of The Princess Helena </Dd>

What was going on during the victorian era