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Repealed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
When was the Gordon Riots?
1780
When was the Derbyshire rising?
1817
When was the six Acts?
1819
When was the Peterloo massacre?
1819
When was Grampound Disenfrancised?
1819
When was the Death of George the third?
1820
When was the Cato Street Conspiracy?
1820
When was the Queen Caroline affair?
1820
When was the congress of Troppau?
1820
When was the Gold Standard restored under Liverpool?
1821
When did Castlereagh kill himself?
1822
When is Canning foreign secretary?
1822-27
When does Liverpool modify the Corn law?
1822
When was the congress of Verona?
1822
When does Peel become Home Secretary?
In the cabinet reshuffle of 1822
When was the trade Reciprocity Act?
1823
When is Fernidand VII of Spain restored by France?
1823
When does O’Donnel set up the Catholic Association?
1823
When is the Gaols Act?
1823
When does Peel begin the reform of Law?
1823
When are the combination acts repealed?
1824
When is the Act that makes strikes illegal reintroduced after combinations repealed?
1825
When was the Banking Crash?
1825
When was the Corn law suspended under Liverpool?
1825 in the crash
When are British troops sent to Portugal under Canning?
1824
When does Britain recognise the South American Republics?
1825
When is the era of Liberal Toryism?
1822-27
When does Canning become PM?
1827
When does Goderich become PM?
1827
When does Wellington become PM?
1828-1830
When was as the Battle of Navarino?
1827
When does Greece get independence?
1830
When was the treaty of London with Russia?
1827
When does the Corn law go under sliding scales?
1828
When is the repeal of the test and corporations act?
1828?
When was Catholic Emancipation?
1829
When does John Doherty found the Association for the protection of Labour?
1830
When is the death of George the fourth?
1830
When were the swing riots?
1830-31
When does Thomas Atwood found the BPU?
1830
When was Churchill’s reform bill?
1830
When was the Merthyr rising?
1831
When is the reform bill rejected by the lords?
1831
When did the Whigs come to power?
1830
When was the Carlton club founded?
1832
When were the County Association under Wyville started?
1780
When was the Reform bill passed?
1832
When does Grey resign and come back?
1832 after lords defeat
When was the Royal Commission on the Poor law?
1832
When was the Royal Commission on Factory reform?
1833
When was the Factory Act?
1833
When was the poor law Amendment Act?
1834
When was the GNCTU?
1834
When were the Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation?
1834
When was the Municipal Corporations Act?
1825
When was Lovett’s London Working Men’s Association founded?
1836
When was the People’s Charter published?
1838
When was Peel PM?
1834-35
1841-46
When was Melbourne (Whig) PM?
1835-1841
When was the Birmingham Chartist riots?
1839
When was the Newport rising?
1839
When was the anti-Corn law league formed?
1839
When was the Ladies of the Bedchamber affair?
1839
When was the first Chartist petition presented to Parliament?
1839
1.5 million signignatures
When was the second Chartist petition?
1842
3 million
When was the Third Chartist petition? (Kennington Common)
1848
5 million only 2 million declared valid
When is the national charter association formed?
1840
When was the Royal Commission into Children working in Mines?
1840
When was the Chartist land plan first discussed?
1840
When was the Mines Act?
1842
When was the Chartist plug plot?
1842
When does Peel restore income tax?
1842
When did Peel introduce free trade measures?
1842
When was Graham’s Factory act?
1844
When was the railway regulation act?
1844
When was the Bank Charter Act?
1844
When was the Maynooth Grant?
1845
When does the Irish famine start?
1845
When is the Devon commission report?
1845
When does the Chartist land plan start?
1845
When was the repeal of the Corn laws?
1846
When was the Andover workhouse case?
1846
When was the ten hours Act?
1847
When was the Public health act?
1848
When does Peel die?
1850
When does Russel become PM?
1846-1852
When were the Rebecca riots?
1839-43
