euro - Timeline

[1770] "The Deserted Village" is published by Oliver Goldsmith

[1798] Thomas Malthus publishes "Essay on the Principle of Population"

[1830] Industrialization spreads to areas like Northern France and Belgium.

[1834] Zollverein is created in Central Europe

[1842] Flora Tristan reported English Factories "lack clothing, bed, furniture, fuel, wholesome food--even potatoes!"

[1840s] The Great Hunger occurs

[1791] Guilds were made illegal in Great Britain

[1854] Charles Dickins publishes "Hard Times"

[1829] Parliament passes a law establishing the first modern police force in London

Cholera kills some 150,000 people in France and Britain combined

[1840] Louis Villerme connected living conditions to the spread of disease

[1843] Tristan publishes "Worker's Union"

[1848] Karl Marx publishes "The Communist Manifesto"

[1814-1815] The Congress of Vienna meets after Napoleon is deposed

[1825] Decembrist Uprising occurs in Russia

[1833] Britain abolishes slavery in its colonies

[1846] Britain repeals corn laws

[1824] Workers' Organizations are made legal in Great Britain

[1850] Workers' Organizations legalized elsewhere

[1834] The Grand National Consolidated Trades Union and the National Trades Union are founded in Great Britain and the U.S. respectively

[1811] Luddites who lost jobs to power looms rampage and riot in Great Britain