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1801

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Act of Union between GB and Ireland comes into effect + 1st census in GB

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1811

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‘Luddite’ outbreaks in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire + Beginning of the Regency

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1815

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Battle of Waterloo + Congress of Vienna

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1819

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Peterloo Massacre

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1821

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1st census in Ireland

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1825

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Trade Unions legalised

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1828

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Election of Daniel O’Connell at Clare by-election

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1829

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Catholic emancipation + Metropolitan Police Force set up in London

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1830

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death of George III + accession of George IV

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1830-1832

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1st major cholera epidemic in GB

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1831

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Swing riots

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1832

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1st Reform Act

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1833

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Factory Act limiting child labour

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14
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1834

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Slavery abolished in BE + Poor Law Amendment Act

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1835

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Municipal Reform Act extends local government franchise to all rate-payers

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1837

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death of George IV + accession of Victoria

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1838

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Anti-Corn Law League established + People’s Charter drafted

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1839

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1st Chartist petition

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1840

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Penny post instituted + National Charter Association established (ended 1858)

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1842

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Mines Act + publication of Chadwick’s Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Classes of Great Britain + 2nd Chartist petition + The Nation founded

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1844

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Royal Commission on health of towns

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21
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1844-45

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Railway mania

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22
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1845

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1st onslaught of potato blight in Ireland

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23
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1846

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Corn Laws abolished + famine starts in Ireland + Electric Telegraph Company founded

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1847

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‘Black ‘47’ in Ireland; Ten Hours Act

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1848

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Revolutions in Europe + rising in Ireland + Public Health Act + 3rd and last Chartist petition

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1850

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Pub° of London Labour and the London Poor by H. Mayhew + Metropolitan Interments Act

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1851

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Great Exhibition + census taking stock of population loss in Ireland + ASE founded on a national basis

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28
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1854-56

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Crimean War

29
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1857-58

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2nd Opium War + Sepoy mutiny and India Act - creation of the Raj

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1859

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Darwin’s Origin of Species

31
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1861

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death of Albert, Prince Consort

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1867

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2nd Reform Act + Dominion of Canada Act

33
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1868

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TUC (Trades Union Congress) established

34
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1869

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Suez Canal opened + Irish Church disestablished + publication of The Subjection of Women by
J. Stuart Mill

35
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1870

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Irish Land Act + Forster’s Education Act + Married Women’s Property Act

36
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1872

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Ballot Act

37
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1875

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Agricultural depression

38
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1876

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Victoria proclaimed Empress of India

39
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1879

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1881

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Land Act, and Coercion Act, Ireland

40
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1880-81

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1st Boer War

41
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1882

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Triple Alliance (Germany, Austria and Italy)

42
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1884

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Reform Act + Married Women’s Property Act, women no longer “chattels” to their husbands +
SDF (Social Democratic Federation), Socialist League, and Fabian Society created

43
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1885

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Burma annexed

44
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1886

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Royal Niger Company chartered + gold found in Transvaal + 1st Irish Home Rule Bill introduced

45
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1887

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British East Africa Company chartered

46
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1888

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County Councils Acts

47
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1889

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London dock strike + British South Africa Company chartered

48
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1893

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2nd Home Rule Bill rejected by the Lords + Independent Labour Party founded

49
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1894

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Local Government Act, women qualified to vote for parochial councils

50
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1897

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creation of the NUWSS (National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies)

51
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1896-98

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Sudan conquered

52
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1899-1902

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2nd Boer War

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1900

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‘Khaki election’ + Commonwealth of Australia Act

54
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1901

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death of Victoria, accession of Edward VII + Factory and Workshop Act, minimum working age raised to 12

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1902

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Balfour’s Education Act

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1904

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Anglo-French Entente

57
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1903

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(WSPU) Women’s Social and Political Union established

58
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1906

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Labour Party formed

59
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1907

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Anglo-Russian Entente + 1907 Qualification of Women Act, women eligible as local councillors

60
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1908

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Asquith’s Old Age Pensions scheme introduced

61
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1910

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repeated tensions between the House of Commons and the House of Lords, two dissolutions of Parliament and general elections

61
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1911

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Parliament Act - primacy of the Commons established - Lords left with a two-year suspension
power + National Insurance Act

62
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1911-12

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railway, mining and coal strikes

63
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1912-14

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3rd Home Rule Bill passed, but suspended

64
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1914

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(28 June) assassination of Archduke Ferdinand at Sarajevo + (4 August) British Empire enters the First World War

65
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1916

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Battle of Verdun + Battle of the Somme + Easter Rising in Dublin

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1918

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(11 November) end of the First World War + franchise granted to all men over 21, and all women over 30 + (December) general elections

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1919

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Treaty of Versailles + Irish nationalist MPs establish the Dáil

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