1810s

Question 1

What was the population of Britain in 1810?

Answer 1

12 million

Question 2

What was the average work week in 1810?

Answer 2

67 hours

Question 3

When was the Frame Breaking Act passed, and what did it do?

Answer 3

1812; made breaking a loom a capital felony

Question 4

When was the 1810s EIC Act passed, and what did it do?

Answer 4

1813; restricted the EIC monopoly to tea and the China trade

Question 5

What was the Importation Act?

Answer 5

1815 act that created the “Corn Laws”

Question 6

When were the Six Acts passed, and what were they?

Answer 6

1819; Training Prevention Act, Seizure of Arms Act, Misdemeanors Act, Seditious Meetings Prevention Act, Blasphemous and Seditious Libels Act, Newspaper and Stamp Duties Act

Question 7

When was Spencer Perceval assassinated, and what happened next?

Answer 7

1812; Liverpool’s Tory government came to power and held it for 15 years

Question 8

Name some major figures in the Liverpool ministry

Answer 8

Lord Sidmouth (Home Secretary until 1822), Lord Castlereagh (Foreign Secretary and Commons leader), Robert Peel (Home Secretary from 1822 onward)

Question 9

When did the Regency era begin, and why?

Answer 9

1811, after George III was deemed unfit to govern due to mental illness

Question 10

When and where did the Luddite movement begin?

Answer 10

March, 1811 in Arnold, Nottingham

Question 11

What are some major literary publications of the 1810s?

Answer 11

Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility (1811), Persuasion and Northanger Abbey (1818), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818)

Question 12

What are the dates of the War of 1812?

Answer 12

June, 1812 to February, 1815

Question 13

When and why did Elizabeth Fry begin her prison reform campaigns?

Answer 13

1813, following disturbing visit to Newgate Gaol

Question 14

When was the last Thames Frost Fair?

Answer 14

1814

Question 15

When was the Battle of Paris, and what was its outcome?

Answer 15

March, 1814; resulted in the abdication of Napoleon and his exile to Elba

Question 16

When was the Congress of Vienna and who were Britain’s main representatives?

Answer 16

1814; Castlereagh and Wellington

Question 17

When did Robert Peel first introduce a reformed police force to Ireland?

Answer 17

1814

Question 18

When and what was the Treaty of Ghent?

Answer 18

1814, bringing War of 1812 to an end

Question 19

When were the Hundred Days, and what was their outcome?

Answer 19

March-July 1815, ended after the Battle of Waterloo in June, when Napoleon was exiled to St. Helena

Question 20

When and where was the first macadamized road constructed?

Answer 20

1815; Bristol

Question 21

When was the first electric telegraph built, and by whom?

Answer 21

1816; Francis Ronalds

Question 22

Name three significant events in non-Luddite radical history in the 1810s

Answer 22

March 10, 1817 - Blanketeers March; June 9, 1817 - Pentrich Rising; August 16, 1819 - Peterloo

Question 23

Name two significant deaths of 1817

Answer 23

Princess Charlotte; Jane Austen

Question 24

When was the gold standard formally adopted?

Answer 24

1819

Question 25

When and what was the Cotton Mills and Factories Act?

Answer 25

1819 act introduced by Sir Robert Peel and seeking to regulate child labour, though it established no inspectorate