1830
William IV becomes King, his coronation taking place on 8 September 1831.
1830
Sir John Key, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London.
1830
John Key is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1831
John Roger Pettiward is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1832
Joseph Baker is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1833
George Woodfall is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1834
Charles Fourdrinier becomes Master.
1834
The Lyceum Theatre opens. The theatre opens on 14 July, close to the Strand in the City of Westminster.
1835
Edward London Witts is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1836
Thomas Chapman is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1837
William Barron is elected Master of Stationers' Company. He is re-elected in 1841.
1837
Victoria becomes Queen.
1838
Victoria is crowned Queen on 28 June.
1838
William Francis Chapman is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1839
George Rowe is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1840
Thomas Steel is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1842
Charles Baldwin is elected Master of Stationers' Company. He is re-elected the following year.
1842
This ensures copyright for books is maintained throughout the author's lifetime and for seven years posthumously, or for a full forty-two years in cases where the former situation results in a copyright period of less than forty-two years from the first publication.
1843
Sir William Magnay, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London.
1843
Augustus Applegath establishes a silk and calico printing works in Dartford.
1843
Parliament passes the Theatre Act which eases the restrictions placed upon theatres by the 1737 Licensing Act meaning that theatre's do not have to seek the Lord Chamberlain's approval for every play they stage.
1844
Pulped-wood paper invented: Paper using cotton fibres is still used, but this process manufactures paper using wood and was simultaneously invented by the German F. G. Keller and the Canadian Charles Fenerty.
1844
Richard Bate is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1845
William Carpenter is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1846
John Walter is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1847
William Magnay is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1847
Richard March Hoe patents his 1843 invention of the rotary printing press, having perfected it over the years.
1848
John Lewis Cox is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1849
Benjamin Gibbons is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1850
John Bowyer Nichols is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1851
Thomas Gardiner is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1852
Thomas Taylor is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1853
William Farlow is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1854
Samuel Gyfford is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1854
(Baronet) Sir Francis Graham Moon, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord of Mayor of London.
1855
The Daily Telegraph and Courier is founded by Arthur B. Sleigh.
1855
Francis Graham Moon is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1856
Nathaniel Graham is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1857
John Dickinson is elected Master of Stationer's Company. He is re-elected the following year.
1858
George Phineas Gordon invents the Franklin press, or the "Gordon Jobber".
1859
John Saddington is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1860
Henry Foss is elected Master of Stationers' Company. He is re-elected in 1862.
1861
James William Adlard is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1861
The Company founds a boys' school at Bolt Cort, originally called the Stationers' Company's Foundation School
1861
The abolition of paper duty results in cheaper mass-circulation periodicals like The Illustrated London News.
1863
John Simpson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1864
James Daikers is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1865
Thomas Jones is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1866
Edmund Hodgson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1867
William Ferneley Allen, a member of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London.
1868
Henry Adlard is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1869
Henry Good is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1869
Charles Robert Rivington is appointed Clerk to Stationers' Company.
1870
The Vaudeville Theatre opens on the Strand on the 16 April.
1870
Henry George Brown is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1871
William Tyler is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1872
Sir Sydney Hedley Waterlow, the Master of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London.
1873
Francis Rivington is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1874
William Watson is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1875
William Good is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1876
Charles Rivington and Henry George Brown are elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1877
William Rivington is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1878
George Chater is elected Master of Stationers' Company.
1878
The City and Guilds Institute is founded, actively supported by the livery companies.
1879
Sir Francis Wyatt Truscott, the Master of Stationers' Company, is elected Lord Mayor of London. He is also re-elected Master in 1887.
1879
Karel Klíč invents photogravure, which enables the detailed and colour-consistent reproduction of photographs.
1880
Theatre paper 'The Stage' is published for the first time on the 1st February.
1880
James Figgins is elected Master of Stationers' Company.