1810s Flashcards
What was the population of Britain in 1810?
12 million
What was the average work week in 1810?
67 hours
When was the Frame Breaking Act passed, and what did it do?
1812; made breaking a loom a capital felony
When was the 1810s EIC Act passed, and what did it do?
1813; restricted the EIC monopoly to tea and the China trade
What was the Importation Act?
1815 act that created the “Corn Laws”
When were the Six Acts passed, and what were they?
1819; Training Prevention Act, Seizure of Arms Act, Misdemeanors Act, Seditious Meetings Prevention Act, Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act, Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act
When was Spencer Perceval assassinated, and what happened next?
1812; Liverpool’s Tory government came to power and held it for 15 years
Name some major figures in the Liverpool ministry
Lord Sidmouth (Home Secretary until 1822), Lord Castlereagh (Foreign Secretary and Commons leader), Robert Peel (Home Secretary from 1822 onward)
When did the Regency era begin, and why?
1811, after George III was deemed unfit to govern due to mental illness
When and where did the Luddite movement begin?
March, 1811 in Arnold, Nottingham
What are some major literary publications of the 1810s?
Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811), Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (1818), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)
What are the dates of the War of 1812?
June, 1812 to February, 1815
When and why did Elizabeth Fry begin her prison reform campaigns?
1813, following disturbing visit to Newgate Gaol
When was the last Thames Frost Fair?
1814
When was the Battle of Paris, and what was its outcome?
March, 1814; resulted in the abdication of Napoleon and his exile to Elba
When was the Congress of Vienna and who were Britain’s main representatives?
1814; Castlereagh and Wellington
When did Robert Peel first introduce a reformed police force to Ireland?
1814
When and what was the Treaty of Ghent?
1814, bringing War of 1812 to an end
When were the Hundred Days, and what was their outcome?
March-July 1815, ended after the Battle of Waterloo in June, when Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena
When and where was the first macadamized road constructed?
1815; Bristol
When was the first electric telegraph built, and by whom?
1816; Francis Ronalds
Name three significant events in non-Luddite radical history in the 1810s
March 10, 1817 - Blanketeers March; June 9, 1817 - Pentrich Rising; August 16, 1819 - Peterloo
Name two significant deaths of 1817
Princess Charlotte; Jane Austen
When was the gold standard formally adopted?
1819
When and what was the Cotton Mills and Factories Act?
1819 act introduced by Sir Robert Peel and seeking to regulate child labour, though it established no inspectorate
