Dates Flashcards
When did Pitt introduce a bill to increase independent Mp’s power?
1783
When did Pitt become PM?
1783
When did Pitt win the general election?
How many Whigs lost seats
1784
100
When was the India Act?
1784
When was Pitt’s reform bill?
1785
When did Pitt introduce a tax on retail shops?
1785
Rioting
Repealed
When was the trade treaty with the UP?
1785
When was the Eden treaty?
1786
When was the sinking fund set up?
When was the second sinking fund set up?
1786
1792
When was the Hovering act?
1787
When was the regency crisis?
1788
When was the triple Alliance formed?
1788
When was the storming of Bastille?
1789
When was Henry Flood’s reform bill?
1790
When did the Holy Roman emperor offer Britain friendship?
1790
I hen you as the Society of the Friends of the people founded?
When did it disband?
1792
1793
When was the royal proclamation on Seditious publications?
1792
When was Earl Grey’s early reform bill?
1793
When does Pitt declare war on revolutionary France?
1793
When did Pitt suspend Habeas Corpus?
1794
When did leading Whigs join Pitt’s government?
1794
When were the Quota Acts?
1795
When were the gagging acts?
1795
When were the Naval mutinies (Spithead, the Nore)?
1797
When did the Speenhamland system begin?
1795
When was there rebellion in Ireland?
1798
When was the battle of the Nile?
1798
When was the newspaper publications act under Pitt?
1798
When did Pitt introduce income tax?
1799
When was the combination act passed?
1799
When did Napoleon become first consul?
1799
When did Pitt resign over Catholic Emancipation?
1801
When was Union with Ireland?
1800
When was the battle of Copenhagen?
1801
When was the peace of Amiens?
1802-1803
When does Pitt return to power?
1804
When do the ‘Napoleonic wars’ begin?
1803
When was the battle of Trafalgar?
1805
When does the continental system begin?
1806
When does Pitt die?
1806
When was the slave trade abolished?
1807
In colonies 1833
When was the Peninsula war?
1808-1814
When was the war with the USA?
1812-14
When does Napoleon invade Russia?
1812
When does Luddism peak?
1812
When is machine breaking made a hanging offence?
1812
When does Napoleon abdicate?
1814
When was the Congress of Vienna?
1814
When was Liverpool PM?
1812-1827
When was Castlereagh foreign secretary?
1812-22
When was the Corn Law passed?
1815
When was the Holy Alliance started?
1815
When was the battle of Waterloo?
1815
When was the treaty of Vienna?
1815
When did Napoleon return to France?
1815
When does Liverpool repeal the income tax?
1816
When was the suspension of Habeas Corpus under Liverpool?
1817
When was the March of the Blanketeers?
1817