1841
Robert Peel's second term as Prime Minister
1841
John Murray publishes The State in its relation with the Church by William Ewart Gladstone
1842
Palaeontologist Richard Owen coins the term Dinosauria to refer to the "distinct tribe or sub-order of Saurian Reptiles" that were discovered in the fossil record
1842 - 1847
Austen Henry Layard's first expedition to the ruins of Nineveh in Assyria
1843
John Murray II dies
1843
Ada Lovelace translates Luigi Federico Menabrea's description of Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, adding her own extensive annotations including calculation of Bernoulli numbers
1845
Irish Potato Famine
1846
Murray publishes Herman Melville's Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life in England
1846
The Corn Laws are repealed; John Murray published Robert Peel's "Speech on the repeal of the Corn Laws"
1847
Murray publishes Herman Melville's sequel to Typee - Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas in England
1848
Lord Melbourne dies
1848 - 1849
John Murray publishes Layard's Nineveh and its Remains
1849
Murray publishes Joseph Cunningham's A History of the Sikhs: From the Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej
1849 - 1851
Layard's second expedition to Assyria, during which he discovers the ruins of the library of Ashurbanipal
1851
John Murray IV is born
1851
The missionary and explorer, David Livingstone, embarks on an exploration to chart the Zambezi River
1852
John Murray publishes Laurence Oliphant's A Journey to Katmandu
1853 - 1856
Crimean War
1854
Birth of Hallam Murray, second son of John Murray III and Marion Smith
1855
Caroline Norton submits to parliament, which was then debating the subject of divorce reform, an account of her marriage to George Norton
1857
Murray publishes David Livingstone's Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
1859
Murray publishes Self Help by Samuel Smiles, the first book of its kind
1859
John Murray publishes Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
1863
Murray publishes Henry Walter Bates' The Naturalist on the River Amazons
1865
Murray publishes David and Charles Livingstone's Narrative of an Expedition to the Zambesi and its Tributaries; and of the Discovery of the Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864
1868
Benjamin Disraeli's first term as Prime Minister
1868
William Gladstone's first term as Prime Minister
1870
American writer, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, publishes Lady Byron Vindicated: a history of the Byron controversy, from its beginning in 1816 to the present time, in Boston
1872
Isabella Bird travels to Australia and Hawaii
1873
Isabella Bird travels 800 miles through the Rocky Mountains
1873
David Livingstone dies
1874
Benjamin Disraeli's second term as Prime Minister
1878
Murray publishes Heinrich Schliemann's Mycenae
1878
Isabella Bird travels to Asia, visiting Japan, China, Korea, Vietnam, Singapore and Malaya
1880
William Gladstone's second term as Prime Minister
1880
John Murray publishes Isabella Bird's The Hawaiian Archipelago: six months among the palm groves, coral reefs and volcanoes of the Sandwich Islands
1882
Darwin dies
1883
John Murray publishes the autobiography of engineer and inventor, James Nasmyth
1887
The firm publishes the short-lived periodical, Murray's Magazine
1889
Isabella Bird travels to India, Persia, Kurdistan, and Turkey
1891
Robert Cooke dies
1891
John Murray publishes the first volume of Isabella Bird's Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan
1891
Isabella Bird travels to Persia and Armenia
1892
John Murray III dies
1892
Isabella Bird becomes the first woman allowed to join the Royal Geographical Society
1894
John Murray IV publishes The Life of Richard Owen, a biography of the palaeontologist written by his grandson
1897
Isabella Bird travels to China and Korea
1898
William Gladstone dies
1898
John Murray publishes Isabella Bird's Korea and her neighbours: a narrative of travel, with an account of the vicissitudes and position of the country
1899
John Murray publishes Isabella Bird's The Yangtze Valley and Beyond: An account of journeys in China, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory
1901
Queen Victoria dies
1903
Isabella Bird travels to Morocco
1904
Isabella Bird dies
1908
John Murray IV publishes The Letters of Queen Victoria in three volumes
1908
Hallam Murray resigns from the firm
1912 - 1975
John Murray purchases and publishes The Cornhill Magazine
1926
John Murray IV receives a knighthood in recognition for his charitable work and the publication of The Letters of Queen Victoria
1928
John Murray IV dies
1934
Hallam Murray dies
1971
The Byron Society is re-established
2002
The John Murray imprint is acquired by Hodder
2006
The John Murray Archives move from their historic home at 50 Albemarle Street to the National Library of Scotland