Industrial Dates

Question 1

When was Pitt’s India Act

Answer 1

1784

Question 2

When was Pitt’s sinking fund

Answer 2

1786

Question 3

When was the consolidation act

Answer 3

1787

Question 4

When did Pitt Resign

Answer 4

1801

Question 5

When was Cartwright’s power loom

Answer 5

1789

Question 6

When was Watts rotary motion

Answer 6

1781

Question 7

When was the Speenhamland system implemented

Answer 7

1795

Question 8

When was the Friendly Societies Act

Answer 8

1793

Question 9

When did France declare war on Britain

Answer 9

1792

Question 10

When was income tax first introduced

Answer 10

1798

Question 11

When was the Combination Act

Answer 11

1799

Question 12

When was the French revolution

Answer 12

1789

Question 13

When was Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France” published

Answer 13

1790

Question 14

When was Paine’s “The Rights of Man”

Answer 14

1791

Question 15

When was Hardy’s London Corresponding Society

Answer 15

1792

Question 16

When was Louis XVI executed

Answer 16

Jan 1793

Question 17

When was the Seditious Meetings Act

Answer 17

1795

Question 18

When was the Treasonable Practices Act

Answer 18

1795

Question 19

When was the SUI founded

Answer 19

1791

Question 20

When was the Catholic Relief Act

Answer 20

1793

Question 21

When was the Act of Union

Answer 21

1800/01

Question 22

When was the Treaty of Amiens

Answer 22

1802

Question 23

When did Pitt return to office

Answer 23

1804

Question 24

When was Addingtons Levee en Masse Act

Answer 24

1803

Question 25

When was Trafalgar

Answer 25

1805

Question 26

When was the continental system

Answer 26

1806

Question 27

When was Lord Liverpool’s term as PM

Answer 27

1812-27

Question 28

When did the Prince Regent replace George III

Answer 28

1811

Question 29

When did George III die

Answer 29

1820

Question 30

When was the Queen Caroline Affair

Answer 30

1820

Question 31

When we’re the Corn laws

Answer 31

1815

Question 32

When was income tax abolished

Answer 32

1816

Question 33

When were the Game Laws introduced

Answer 33

1816

Question 34

When was Habeas Corpus suspended under Liverpool

Answer 34

1817

Question 35

When were the Six Acts

Answer 35

1819

Question 36

When was Peterloo

Answer 36

1819

Question 37

When were the Factory Acts

Answer 37

1819

Question 38

When were the Combination Acts repealed

Answer 38

1824

Question 39

When was Wellington’s term as PM

Answer 39

Jan 1828 - Nov 1830

Question 40

When was Catholic Emabcipation

Answer 40

April 1829

Question 41

When was the Sliding Scale introduced

Answer 41

1828

Question 42

When were the Met introduced

Answer 42

1829

Question 43

When was Neilson’s hot-air blast furnace

Answer 43

1828

Question 44

When was Hedley’s “Puffing Billy”

Answer 44

1812

Question 45

When was Meikle’s threshing machine

Answer 45

1778

Question 46

When were Prosperity Robinson’s budgets

Answer 46

1824, 1825

Question 47

When was the Manchester Guardian

Answer 47

1821

Question 48

When were the Swing Riots

Answer 48

1830

Question 49

When was the abolition of the slave trade

Answer 49

1807

Question 50

When was the abolition of slavery

Answer 50

1833