Britain 1750-1880
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Updated: 16 Mar 2023
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Created byRae Dyer
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Pentridge Rising - 1817Corn Laws - 1815Peterloo Massacre - 1819Factory act - 1833Further Factories act - 1844Health and Morals of Apprentices act - 1802Radical political leaders could be arrested without trial - 1794Treason Act - 1795Frame Breaking Act - 1812Game Laws - 1815Income tax abolished - 1816higher taxes on goods bought by lower classes - 1816Ban on large meetings - 1817Six Acts - 1819Chimney Sweep Act - 1788Ten Hour Bill - 1847Mines and Collieries Bill - 1842coal mines regulation act - 1872percentage of MPs were financed by Lords in 1801Catholic Emancipation Act - 1829percentage of the population of Britain could vote in 1800Storming of Bastille - 1789Tennis Court Oath - 1789Rights of Man - 1792Petition to parliament for political reform - 1792Seditious Meetings Act - 1795Treasonable Practices Act - 1795Municipal Corporations Act - 1835Poor Law Amendment Act - 1834Fergus O'ConnorGagging Acts - 1819Henry HetheringtonPoor Man's Guardian - 1819Secret Ballot Act - 1872Reform Act - 1832Property Qualification Discontinued for MP's - 1858Tolpuddle Martyrs - 1834Combination Acts repealed - 1824Tolpuddle Martyrs Pardoned - 1836Robert Owen bornCharlton Twist Co. - 1794Cotton Mills and Factories Act - 1819London Co-operative Society - 1820Grand National Consolidated Trade Union 1834First Chartist Petition - 1839Second Chartist Petition - 1842Third Chartist Petition - 1848Skilled workers get the vote - 1867The Gagging Acts - 1817Treason Act - 1817Seditious Meetings Act - 1817Cost of Poor Relief £7Million - 1830Lord Earl GreyRochdale pioneers - 1844Abolition of the Slave Trade Act - 1807Olaudah EquianoGranville SharpSociety for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave TradeThomas ClarksonOttabah CuguanoIgnatius SanchosJames RamseyWilliam WilburforceFirst Bill to abolish Slave Trade - 1791Second Bill to abolish Slave Trade - 1805Adam SmithJonas HanwayCharles KingsleyFirst Chimney Sweeps Act 1834Second Chimney Sweeps Act 1840Chimney Sweepers’ Act - 1875William PittHenry HuntSpa Fields Riots 1816Thomas AttwoodAmerican War of Independence 1783Lord RussellBorough reform measureThe National Reform Union 1864Reform League 1865Hyde Park Demonstration 1866Speenhamland System 1795Corn Laws repealed 1846The Poor Law Board 1847Andover Workhouse Scandal 1845Huddersfield Workhouse Scandal 1848Metropolitan Poor Act 1867Illegal oaths Act 1797Periods
Suspension of Habeas Corpus - 1816/18173.5 Million Population IncreaseCombination Laws 1799-18003 Factory Acts - 1878, 1891, 1895Chartism MovementRoyal Commission assesses poor law system 1832-1834Over 13 Million African Slaves DiePM Lord Palmerston 1859-1865PM Lord John Russell 1865-1866PM William Gladstone 1868-1874PM Benjamin Disraeli 1868PM Benjamin Disraeli 1874-1880PM William Gladstone 1880-1885PM Lord Salisbury 1885-1886PM William Gladstone 1886-1887PM Lord Salisbury 1887-1892Luddite Protests 1811-1817Swing Riots Protests 1830-1831PM Lord Liverpool 1812-1827Robert Peel 1822-1827Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815American Civil War 1861-1865
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