Dates Flashcards
(145 cards)
1
Q
When did Pitt introduce a bill to increase independent Mp’s power?
A
1783
2
Q
When did Pitt become PM?
A
1783
3
Q
When did Pitt win the general election?
How many Whigs lost seats
A
1784
100
4
Q
When was the India Act?
A
1784
5
Q
When was Pitt’s reform bill?
A
1785
6
Q
When did Pitt introduce a tax on retail shops?
A
1785
Rioting
Repealed
7
Q
When was the trade treaty with the UP?
A
1785
8
Q
When was the Eden treaty?
A
1786
9
Q
When was the sinking fund set up?
When was the second sinking fund set up?
A
1786
1792
10
Q
When was the Hovering act?
A
1787
11
Q
When was the regency crisis?
A
1788
12
Q
When was the triple Alliance formed?
A
1788
13
Q
When was the storming of Bastille?
A
1789
14
Q
When was Henry Flood’s reform bill?
A
1790
15
Q
When did the Holy Roman emperor offer Britain friendship?
A
1790
16
Q
I hen you as the Society of the Friends of the people founded?
When did it disband?
A
1792
1793
17
Q
When was the royal proclamation on Seditious publications?
A
1792
18
Q
When was Earl Grey’s early reform bill?
A
1793
19
Q
When does Pitt declare war on revolutionary France?
A
1793
20
Q
When did Pitt suspend Habeas Corpus?
A
1794
21
Q
When did leading Whigs join Pitt’s government?
A
1794
22
Q
When were the Quota Acts?
A
1795
23
Q
When were the gagging acts?
A
1795
24
Q
When were the Naval mutinies (Spithead, the Nore)?
A
1797
25
When did the Speenhamland system begin?
1795
26
When was there rebellion in Ireland?
1798
27
When was the battle of the Nile?
1798
28
When was the newspaper publications act under Pitt?
1798
29
When did Pitt introduce income tax?
1799
30
When was the combination act passed?
1799
31
When did Napoleon become first consul?
1799
32
When did Pitt resign over Catholic Emancipation?
1801
33
When was Union with Ireland?
1800
34
When was the battle of Copenhagen?
1801
35
When was the peace of Amiens?
1802-1803
36
When does Pitt return to power?
1804
37
When do the 'Napoleonic wars' begin?
1803
38
When was the battle of Trafalgar?
1805
39
When does the continental system begin?
1806
40
When does Pitt die?
1806
41
When was the slave trade abolished?
1807
In colonies 1833
42
When was the Peninsula war?
1808-1814
43
When was the war with the USA?
1812-14
44
When does Napoleon invade Russia?
1812
45
When does Luddism peak?
1812
46
When is machine breaking made a hanging offence?
1812
47
When does Napoleon abdicate?
1814
48
When was the Congress of Vienna?
1814
49
When was Liverpool PM?
1812-1827
50
When was Castlereagh foreign secretary?
1812-22
51
When was the Corn Law passed?
1815
52
When was the Holy Alliance started?
1815
53
When was the battle of Waterloo?
1815
54
When was the treaty of Vienna?
1815
55
When did Napoleon return to France?
1815
56
When does Liverpool repeal the income tax?
1816
57
When was the suspension of Habeas Corpus under Liverpool?
1817
58
When was the March of the Blanketeers?
1817
59
When was the Gordon Riots?
1780
60
When was the Derbyshire rising?
1817
61
When was the six Acts?
1819
62
When was the Peterloo massacre?
1819
63
When was Grampound Disenfrancised?
1819
64
When was the Death of George the third?
1820
65
When was the Cato Street Conspiracy?
1820
66
When was the Queen Caroline affair?
1820
67
When was the congress of Troppau?
1820
68
When was the Gold Standard restored under Liverpool?
1821
69
When did Castlereagh kill himself?
1822
70
When is Canning foreign secretary?
1822-27
71
When does Liverpool modify the Corn law?
1822
72
When was the congress of Verona?
1822
73
When does Peel become Home Secretary?
In the cabinet reshuffle of 1822
74
When was the trade Reciprocity Act?
1823
75
When is Fernidand VII of Spain restored by France?
1823
76
When does O'Donnel set up the Catholic Association?
1823
77
When is the Gaols Act?
1823
78
When does Peel begin the reform of Law?
1823
79
When are the combination acts repealed?
1824
80
When is the Act that makes strikes illegal reintroduced after combinations repealed?
1825
81
When was the Banking Crash?
1825
82
When was the Corn law suspended under Liverpool?
1825 in the crash
83
When are British troops sent to Portugal under Canning?
1824
84
When does Britain recognise the South American Republics?
1825
85
When is the era of Liberal Toryism?
1822-27
86
When does Canning become PM?
1827
87
When does Goderich become PM?
1827
88
When does Wellington become PM?
1828-1830
89
When was as the Battle of Navarino?
1827
90
When does Greece get independence?
1830
91
When was the treaty of London with Russia?
1827
92
When does the Corn law go under sliding scales?
1828
93
When is the repeal of the test and corporations act?
1828?
94
When was Catholic Emancipation?
1829
95
When does John Doherty found the Association for the protection of Labour?
1830
96
When is the death of George the fourth?
1830
97
When were the swing riots?
1830-31
98
When does Thomas Atwood found the BPU?
1830
99
When was Churchill's reform bill?
1830
100
When was the Merthyr rising?
1831
101
When is the reform bill rejected by the lords?
1831
102
When did the Whigs come to power?
1830
103
When was the Carlton club founded?
1832
104
When were the County Association under Wyville started?
1780
105
When was the Reform bill passed?
1832
106
When does Grey resign and come back?
1832 after lords defeat
107
When was the Royal Commission on the Poor law?
1832
108
When was the Royal Commission on Factory reform?
1833
109
When was the Factory Act?
1833
110
When was the poor law Amendment Act?
1834
111
When was the GNCTU?
1834
112
When were the Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation?
1834
113
When was the Municipal Corporations Act?
1825
114
When was Lovett's London Working Men's Association founded?
1836
115
When was the People's Charter published?
1838
116
When was Peel PM?
1834-35
1841-46
117
When was Melbourne (Whig) PM?
1835-1841
118
When was the Birmingham Chartist riots?
1839
119
When was the Newport rising?
1839
120
When was the anti-Corn law league formed?
1839
121
When was the Ladies of the Bedchamber affair?
1839
122
When was the first Chartist petition presented to Parliament?
1839
1.5 million signignatures
123
When was the second Chartist petition?
1842
3 million
124
When was the Third Chartist petition? (Kennington Common)
1848
5 million only 2 million declared valid
125
When is the national charter association formed?
1840
126
When was the Royal Commission into Children working in Mines?
1840
127
When was the Chartist land plan first discussed?
1840
128
When was the Mines Act?
1842
129
When was the Chartist plug plot?
1842
130
When does Peel restore income tax?
1842
131
When did Peel introduce free trade measures?
1842
132
When was Graham's Factory act?
1844
133
When was the railway regulation act?
1844
134
When was the Bank Charter Act?
1844
135
When was the Maynooth Grant?
1845
136
When does the Irish famine start?
1845
137
When is the Devon commission report?
1845
138
When does the Chartist land plan start?
1845
139
When was the repeal of the Corn laws?
1846
140
When was the Andover workhouse case?
1846
141
When was the ten hours Act?
1847
142
When was the Public health act?
1848
143
When does Peel die?
1850
144
When does Russel become PM?
1846-1852
145
When were the Rebecca riots?
1839-43
