Timeline of main events

Question 1

When was the outbreak of the French Revolution?

Answer 1

1789

Question 2

When was Burke’s Reflections on the Revolution in France written?

Answer 2

1790

Question 3

When was Paine’s The Rights of Man written?

Answer 3

1791-2

Question 4

When was the London Corresponding Society (LCS) formed?

Answer 4

1792

Question 5

What year was habeus corpus suspended?

Answer 5

1794

Question 6

What year were the Treason Act and Seditious Meetings Act introduced?

Answer 6

1795

Question 7

When was Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register first published?

Answer 7

1802

Question 8

When was Luddite activity at its highest?

Answer 8

1810-12

Question 9

When was the Hampden Club founded?

Answer 9

1812

Question 10

When did the Napoleonic Wars with France end?

Answer 10

1815

Question 11

When were the Corn Laws introduced?

Answer 11

1815

Question 12

Years of the harsh winter and national petitioning campaign?

Answer 12

1816-17

Question 13

When were the Spa Fields Riots?

Answer 13

December 1816

Question 14

When was the March of the Blanketeers?

Answer 14

March 1817

Question 15

When was the Pentridge Rising?

Answer 15

June 1817

Question 16

When were the gagging acts introduced?

Answer 16

June 1817

Question 17

When was the Peterloo Massacre?

Answer 17

August 1819

Question 18

When were The Six Acts introduced?

Answer 18

August 1819