The London Docks were built between 1799 and 1815. They were the closest docks to the City of London until the St. Katharine Docks were opened in 1828. The docks, located in Wapping, occupied an area of about 30 acres. They were closed to shipping in 1969.

St. Pancras Old Church, located in Central London, is believed to be one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in England. Largely rebuilt in the Victorian era, the church has many notable names in its churchyard, including a memorial tomb to Mary Wollstonecraft.

Located in Paris, the Bibliothèque nationale de France is the national repository of everything published in France. It began in 1368 as the royal library of Charles V in the Louvre Palace. The library was moved several times to accommodate its growing collections and was opened to the public in 1692.

Although "The Cry of the Children" was written and published in the nineteenth century, its message is still very applicable in our modern world. Pictured is a child laborer in present-day Indonesia. 

Hitting closer to home where this timeline was created at Baylor University (Waco, Texas), this image shows a girl working at Brazos Valley Cotton Mill in West, Texas.  Factories in West employed child laborers as late as 1913.