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may 15, 1846 - Under the leadership of Prime Minister Robert Peel, the House of Commons of the United Kingdom votes to repeal the Corn Laws by passing an Importation Bill, replacing the old colonial mercantile trade system with free trade.[6] On June 25 the Duke of Wellington persuades the House of Lords to pass the Act, which will take full effect from February 1849

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