Industrial Britain Timeline
Category: Autre
mise à jour avec succès: 10 mai 2018
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Start of the French RevolutionPitt introduces the Sinking Fund.
National Debt is £240m
Signs an Anglo-French trade treatyReflections of the Revolution in France by Burke is published, condemning the revolutionthe Rights of Man by Paine are publishedKing executed,
Britain becomes involved in the French Revolutionary warsIrish Rebellion led by Wolfe ToneCombination ActsAct of Union passed through ParliamentFirst census
10.9mPink- economic
Black- overseas
Yellow-social
green- ireland
purple- religion
blue- politicsVictory at TrafalgarWilberforce's campaign sees the abolition of the slave TRADEPrince of Wales made RegentCorn Laws passedRepressive Six Acts PassedPeterloo MassacrePenal Code reformCombination Acts repealedrepeal of the Test and Corporations ActsCatholic EmancipationFirst Metropolitan Police forceLiverpool to Manchester lineFirst Reform ActAbolition of slavery in the EmpireFactory Act - child hoursTrial of the Tolpuddle MartyrsTamworth Manifesto deliveredPoor Law Amendment ActMunicipal Corporations ActRegistration of Births, Deaths and Marriages actPublication of the Six Point Charter - ChartismPeacetime income taxMines ActFactory Act - textilesBank Charter ActRochdale Farmers start Coop MovementTen Hour Act - ShaftesburyPublic Health ActThe Great ExhibitionSecond Reform ActUnification of Germany means they compete economically with BritainCriminal Law Amendment Act bans picketing
Trade Union Act Legalises unions rightsSecret Ballot ActArtisans' Dwelling ActConspiracy and Protection of Property Act replaced Criminal Law Amendment ActLand League formed by Davitt to secure land for Irish tenants.
Charles Parnell emerges as the leader of the NationalistsForth Rail Bridge construction beginsThird Reform Act!
Includes unskilled labourers in the voteRedistribution Act fixed representation issuesGeneral Election, Pitt wins majorityConsolidation Act
reformed collection and admin of revenueCartwright's power loom12.6m populationBoulton and Watt have 100s of steam engines working at this timeEnclosure in farming is widely implementedMiddle and professional class made 25% of the populationFriendly Societies ActIncome TaxThomas Hardy's London Corresponding Society is formedHabeas Corpus SuspendedTrasonable Practices ActSeditious Meetings ActSociety of United Irishmen bannedSociety of United Irishmen Formed
aims: democracy, reform, equal rights of religionCatholic Relief ActCharles Grey formed Society of Friends of the People,
motion for reform is rejectedSeptember MassacresLevee en Masse Act - 800kTreaty of Amiens halts warBerlin and Milan Decrees - prevents lots of trade with
BritainNational Debt £876mRepeal of Income TaxFactory Act, Relief Acts and Toleration ActBedchamber CrisisLiberal Party FormedWomen ratepayers vote in local electionsForster's Education Act,
Civil Service ActAbolition of Navigation Acts further free tradeAbolish property qual. to sit as MPPost Office savings banks introduced by GLAD.Produce 40% of total traded manufactured goodsGuano worth £8m a year
Feedstuffs worth £5m a yearNaysmyth Steam HammerFirst London Underground LineSuez Canal OpensBazalgette Sewer System finishedSmiles' Self Help PublishedBank Holiday ActSalvation Army founded by Booth65% live in Urban areas30% spending power in countrysideMundella's Education ActSandson's Education ActFirst Trades Union Congress heldChimney Sweepers ActFactory ActGeneral Health Board set upRoyal Commission - public health legislationAmnesty Association foundedHome Rule League foundedLand League founded by Davitt.
Parnell leads NationalistsLand Act 1881Périodes
Pitt the Younger is PMAddington is PMPitt is PMGrenville as PMDuke of Portland is PMSpencer Perceval is PMEarl of Liverpool is PM - ministry of two halvesCanning is PMViscount Goderich is PMDuke of Wellington is PMEarl Grey/Charles is PMViscount Melbourne is PMDuke of Wellington is PMPeelMelbourne is PM againPeel again as PMLord John Russell is PMEarl of Derby is PMEarl of AberdeenViscount PalmerstonEarl of DerbyPalmerston LIBERAL PARTYEarl RussellEarl of DerbyDisraeliGladstoneDisraeliGladstoneLuddismNapoleonic Wars, ended with WaterlooFrench Rev. WarsGeorge IIIGeorge IVWilliam IVVictoriaIrish FamineRailways. Railway Mania in the 1840sDepression in AgricultureMechanisation of spinning
process in cotton industryCanal AgePOOR HARVESTSECONOMIC CRISIS
due to the Orders in CouncilPrice Rise to
the highest
of the 17th C.
Inflation rises.Growth in Export Trade - Height of economic powerHigh Farming, Golden AgeMass UnionismRevival of UnionsEconomic depressionFenianism in Ireland
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