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1801

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Act of Union between GB and Ireland comes into effect + 1st census in GB

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1811

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‘Luddite’ outbreaks in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire + Beginning of the Regency

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1815

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Battle of Waterloo + Congress of Vienna

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1819

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Peterloo Massacre

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1821

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1st census in Ireland

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1825

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Trade Unions legalised

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1828

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Election of Daniel O’Connell at Clare by-election

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1829

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Catholic emancipation + Metropolitan Police Force set up in London

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1830

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death of George III + accession of George IV

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1830-1832

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1st major cholera epidemic in GB

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1831

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Swing riots

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1832

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1st Reform Act

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1833

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Factory Act limiting child labour

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1834

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Slavery abolished in BE + Poor Law Amendment Act

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1835

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Municipal Reform Act extends local government franchise to all rate-payers

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1837

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death of George IV + accession of Victoria

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1838

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Anti-Corn Law League established + People’s Charter drafted

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1839

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1st Chartist petition

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1840

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Penny post instituted + National Charter Association established (ended 1858)

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1842

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Mines Act + publication of Chadwick’s Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes of Great Britain + 2nd Chartist petition + The Nation founded

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1844

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Royal Commission on health of towns

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1844-45

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Railway mania

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1845

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1st onslaught of potato blight in Ireland

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1846

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Corn Laws abolished + famine starts in Ireland + Electric Telegraph Company founded

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1847
‘Black ‘47’ in Ireland; Ten Hours Act
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1848
Revolutions in Europe + rising in Ireland + Public Health Act + 3rd and last Chartist petition
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1850
Pub° of London Labour and the London Poor by H. Mayhew + Metropolitan Interments Act
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1851
Great Exhibition + census taking stock of population loss in Ireland + ASE founded on a national basis
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1854-56
Crimean War
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1857-58
2nd Opium War + Sepoy mutiny and India Act - creation of the Raj
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1859
Darwin’s Origin of Species
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1861
death of Albert, Prince Consort
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1867
2nd Reform Act + Dominion of Canada Act
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1868
TUC (Trades Union Congress) established
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1869
Suez Canal opened + Irish Church disestablished + publication of The Subjection of Women by J. Stuart Mill
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1870
Irish Land Act + Forster’s Education Act + Married Women’s Property Act
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1872
Ballot Act
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1875
Agricultural depression
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1876
Victoria proclaimed Empress of India
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1879
Zulu War
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1881
Land Act, and Coercion Act, Ireland
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1880-81
1st Boer War
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1882
Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria and Italy)
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1884
Reform Act + Married Women’s Property Act, women no longer “chattels” to their husbands + SDF (Social Democratic Federation), Socialist League, and Fabian Society created
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1885
Burma annexed
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1886
Royal Niger Company chartered + gold found in Transvaal + 1st Irish Home Rule Bill introduced
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1887
British East Africa Company chartered
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1888
County Councils Acts
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1889
London dock strike + British South Africa Company chartered
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1893
2nd Home Rule Bill rejected by the Lords + Independent Labour Party founded
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1894
Local Government Act, women qualified to vote for parochial councils
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1897
creation of the NUWSS (National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies)
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1896-98
Sudan conquered
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1899-1902
2nd Boer War
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1900
‘Khaki election’ + Commonwealth of Australia Act
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1901
death of Victoria, accession of Edward VII + Factory and Workshop Act, minimum working age raised to 12
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1902
Balfour’s Education Act
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1904
Anglo-French Entente
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1903
(WSPU) Women’s Social and Political Union established
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1906
Labour Party formed
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1907
Anglo-Russian Entente + 1907 Qualification of Women Act, women eligible as local councillors
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1908
Asquith’s Old Age Pensions scheme introduced
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1910
repeated tensions between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, two dissolutions of Parliament and general elections
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1911
Parliament Act - primacy of the Commons established - Lords left with a two-year suspension power + National Insurance Act
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1911-12
railway, mining and coal strikes
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1912-14
3rd Home Rule Bill passed, but suspended
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1914
(28 June) assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo + (4 August) British Empire enters the First World War
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1916
Battle of Verdun + Battle of the Somme + Easter Rising in Dublin
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1918
(11 November) end of the First World War + franchise granted to all men over 21, and all women over 30 + (December) general elections
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1919
Treaty of Versailles + Irish nationalist MPs establish the Dáil

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