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England
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⟶ Updated 1 Oct 2018 ⟶
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Events
Wealth of Nations
The Goose and the Commons
Utopia
Midlands rebellions - diggers and levellers
anti-enclosure punishable by death William Meredith Birmingham Gazette
Sheffield Inclosures
No more gleaning
Warren James & miners pull down the enclosure fences
Of Civil Government
Grain prices started to rise
Bad grain harvest led to food riots
Anti-Corn Law League
James Wilson founded magazine "The Economist" to speak out against Corn Laws
Failure of Irish potato crop
Repeal of all Corn Laws
Assize of Bread (setting legal bread/grain prices)
Seditious Meetings Act
Sugar Revolution begins
Molasses Act
China porcelain
Sugar boycott proposed
Abolition of slave trade
Slavery abolished
Poor Relief Act
Depriving peasantry of all landed property
Enclosures hurt the poor
Poor robbed of their commons. REBELLION!