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Industrial Britain Timeline
Created by
J J
⟶ Updated 10 May 2018 ⟶
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Events
Start of the French Revolution
Pitt introduces the Sinking Fund. National Debt is £240m Signs an Anglo-French trade treaty
Reflections of the Revolution in France by Burke is published, condemning the revolution
the Rights of Man by Paine are published
King executed, Britain becomes involved in the French Revolutionary wars
Irish Rebellion led by Wolfe Tone
Combination Acts
Act of Union passed through Parliament
First census 10.9m
Pink- economic Black- overseas Yellow-social green- ireland purple- religion blue- politics
Victory at Trafalgar
Wilberforce's campaign sees the abolition of the slave TRADE
Prince of Wales made Regent
Corn Laws passed
Repressive Six Acts Passed
Peterloo Massacre
Penal Code reform
Combination Acts repealed
repeal of the Test and Corporations Acts
Catholic Emancipation
First Metropolitan Police force
Liverpool to Manchester line
First Reform Act
Abolition of slavery in the Empire
Factory Act - child hours
Trial of the Tolpuddle Martyrs
Tamworth Manifesto delivered
Poor Law Amendment Act
Municipal Corporations Act
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages act
Publication of the Six Point Charter - Chartism
Peacetime income tax
Mines Act
Factory Act - textiles
Bank Charter Act
Rochdale Farmers start Coop Movement
Ten Hour Act - Shaftesbury
Public Health Act
The Great Exhibition
Second Reform Act
Unification of Germany means they compete economically with Britain
Criminal Law Amendment Act bans picketing Trade Union Act Legalises unions rights
Secret Ballot Act
Artisans' Dwelling Act
Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act replaced Criminal Law Amendment Act
Land League formed by Davitt to secure land for Irish tenants. Charles Parnell emerges as the leader of the Nationalists
Forth Rail Bridge construction begins
Third Reform Act! Includes unskilled labourers in the vote
Redistribution Act fixed representation issues
General Election, Pitt wins majority
Consolidation Act reformed collection and admin of revenue
Cartwright's power loom
12.6m population
Boulton and Watt have 100s of steam engines working at this time
Enclosure in farming is widely implemented
Middle and professional class made 25% of the population
Friendly Societies Act
Income Tax
Thomas Hardy's London Corresponding Society is formed
Habeas Corpus Suspended
Trasonable Practices Act
Seditious Meetings Act
Society of United Irishmen banned
Society of United Irishmen Formed aims: democracy, reform, equal rights of religion
Catholic Relief Act
Charles Grey formed Society of Friends of the People, motion for reform is rejected
September Massacres
Levee en Masse Act - 800k
Treaty of Amiens halts war
Berlin and Milan Decrees - prevents lots of trade with Britain
National Debt £876m
Repeal of Income Tax
Factory Act, Relief Acts and Toleration Act
Bedchamber Crisis
Liberal Party Formed
Women ratepayers vote in local elections
Forster's Education Act, Civil Service Act
Abolition of Navigation Acts further free trade
Abolish property qual. to sit as MP
Post Office savings banks introduced by GLAD.
Produce 40% of total traded manufactured goods
Guano worth £8m a year Feedstuffs worth £5m a year
Naysmyth Steam Hammer
First London Underground Line
Suez Canal Opens
Bazalgette Sewer System finished
Smiles' Self Help Published
Bank Holiday Act
Salvation Army founded by Booth
65% live in Urban areas
30% spending power in countryside
Mundella's Education Act
Sandson's Education Act
First Trades Union Congress held
Chimney Sweepers Act
Factory Act
General Health Board set up
Royal Commission - public health legislation
Amnesty Association founded
Home Rule League founded
Land League founded by Davitt. Parnell leads Nationalists
Land Act 1881
Periods
Pitt the Younger is PM
Addington is PM
Pitt is PM
Grenville as PM
Duke of Portland is PM
Spencer Perceval is PM
Earl of Liverpool is PM - ministry of two halves
Canning is PM
Viscount Goderich is PM
Duke of Wellington is PM
Earl Grey/Charles is PM
Viscount Melbourne is PM
Duke of Wellington is PM
Peel
Melbourne is PM again
Peel again as PM
Lord John Russell is PM
Earl of Derby is PM
Earl of Aberdeen
Viscount Palmerston
Earl of Derby
Palmerston LIBERAL PARTY
Earl Russell
Earl of Derby
Disraeli
Gladstone
Disraeli
Gladstone
Luddism
Napoleonic Wars, ended with Waterloo
French Rev. Wars
George III
George IV
William IV
Victoria
Irish Famine
Railways. Railway Mania in the 1840s
Depression in Agriculture
Mechanisation of spinning process in cotton industry
Canal Age
POOR HARVESTS
ECONOMIC CRISIS due to the Orders in Council
Price Rise to the highest of the 17th C. Inflation rises.
Growth in Export Trade - Height of economic power
High Farming, Golden Age
Mass Unionism
Revival of Unions
Economic depression
Fenianism in Ireland
