It's easy to forget that what is "history" to us was "headline news" in its day. Many Victorian magazines provided brief news roundups of major events that had occurred in the month preceding publication. Some of these roundups focused on the magazine's home country; others covered topics from around the world. Here's a collection of today's history as seen in yesterday's headline news!

1834 - Register of Events at Home and Abroad (Court Magazine, 1834)

1859 - Foreign News, Domestic Occurrences and Notes of the Month (Gentleman's Magazine, 1859)

1859 - Shipwrecks in 1859 (Cassell's Family Paper, 1860)

1873 - Editor's Historical Record (Harper's Monthly, 1873A)

1874 - Editor's Historical Record (September 1874) (Harper's Monthly, 1874-Nov)

1875A - Editor's Historical Record (Harper's Monthly, 1875A)

1875B - Editor's Historical Record (Harper's Monthly, 1875B)

1876A - Editor's Historical Record (Harper's Monthly, 1876A)

1876B - Editor's Historical Record (Harper's Monthly, 1876B)

1875-1876 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1877)

1877-1878 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1879)

1879-1880 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1881)

1880 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1880)

1880 - What the World is Talking About (Demorest, 1880)

1880-1881 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1882)

1881 - Editor's Historical Record (Harper's Monthly, 1881A)

1881-1882 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1883)

1882-1883 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1884)

1883-1884 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1885)

1884-1885 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1886)

1885-1886 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1887)

1886-1887 - Notable Occurrences and Events (Illustrated London Almanack, 1888)

1887 - Editor's Historical Record (Harper's Monthly, 1887B)

1889 - Editor's Historical Record (Harper's Monthly, 1889A)

1891 - Monthly Record of Current Events (Harper's Monthly, 1891A)

1899 - In the Public Eye (English Illustrated Magazine, 1899A)

A society column looking at the doings of various celebrities, politicians, royals, etc.

1900 - In the Arena (Cassell's, 1900)

Roundup of news items about various notable (and royal) folk.

1901 - The Great World (Society News) (Lady's Realm, 1901)