Industrialisation timeline

Question 1

1750

Answer 1

London and Edinburgh: populations over 50,000

Question 2

1769

Answer 2

Introduction of steam engines

Question 3

1771

Answer 3

Richard Arkwright: cotton mill in Cromford that employed 300 people

Question 4

1792

Answer 4

Arkwright died with a personal fortune of £500,000

Question 5

1797

Answer 5

County banks granted permission to issue bank notes

Question 6

1799/1800

Answer 6

Combination Acts

Question 7

1801

Answer 7

2/3rds Bham population lived in back to back housing

Question 8

1808

Answer 8

Banks: 800

Question 9

1811-17

Answer 9

Luddite protests

Question 10

1812

Answer 10

Frame Breaking Act

Question 11

1813

Answer 11

Repeal of Statue of Artifices

Question 12

1815

Answer 12

Davy’ safety Lamp

Question 13

1821

Answer 13

49% population: under 20

Question 14

1824

Answer 14

Combination Acts withdrawn

Question 15

1825

Answer 15

Whig MP John Hobhouse: wanted to restrict the working day of children under 16-11 hours

Question 16

1826

Answer 16

Cap on Joint Stock Banks removed

Question 17

1826

Answer 17

Banking co-partnership Act: joint stock banks

Question 18

1830

Answer 18

Manchester-Liverpool railways built

Question 19

1830

Answer 19

Swing riots + start of 10 hour movement

Question 20

1831

Answer 20

Cholera epidemic in Sunderland (32,000 died)

Question 21

1833

Answer 21

Act of parliament: joint stock banks could issue cheques

Question 22

1833

Answer 22

Factory Act passed

Question 23

1835

Answer 23

Municipal Corporations Act

Question 24

1839

Answer 24

Marquess of Bute built

Question 25

1842

Answer 25

Mines Act passed

Question 26

1842

Answer 26

Edwin Chadwick's report published | 'The sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain'

Question 27

1842

Answer 27

1/3 mining workforce: under 19

Question 28

1844

Answer 28

Factory Act

Question 29

1844

Answer 29

Railways regulation Act

Question 30

1844

Answer 30

Mining Act- not allowed to work under the age 10

Question 31

1844

Answer 31

Health of Towns Association

Question 32

1847

Answer 32

10 hour act: limits length of working day

Question 33

1848

Answer 33

Public Health Act passed

Question 34

1852-57

Answer 34

Burial Acts

Question 35

1866

Answer 35

154 joint stock banks

Question 36

1866

Answer 36

Sanitary Act