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Industrialisation timeline Flashcards

learn the chronological order of events for the industrialisation booklet

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1750

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London and Edinburgh: populations over 50,000

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1769

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Introduction of steam engines

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1771

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Richard Arkwright: cotton mill in Cromford that employed 300 people

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1792

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Arkwright died with a personal fortune of £500,000

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1797

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County banks granted permission to issue bank notes

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1799/1800

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Combination Acts

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1801

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2/3rds Bham population lived in back to back housing

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1808

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Banks: 800

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1811-17

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Luddite protests

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1812

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Frame Breaking Act

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1813

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Repeal of Statue of Artifices

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1815

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Davy’ safety Lamp

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1821

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49% population: under 20

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1824

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Combination Acts withdrawn

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1825

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Whig MP John Hobhouse: wanted to restrict the working day of children under 16-11 hours

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1826

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Cap on Joint Stock Banks removed

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1826

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Banking co-partnership Act: joint stock banks

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1830

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Manchester-Liverpool railways built

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1830

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Swing riots + start of 10 hour movement

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1831

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Cholera epidemic in Sunderland (32,000 died)

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1833

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Act of parliament: joint stock banks could issue cheques

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1833

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Factory Act passed

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1835

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Municipal Corporations Act

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1839

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Marquess of Bute built

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1842

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Mines Act passed

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1842

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Edwin Chadwick’s report published

‘The sanitary condition of the labouring population of Great Britain’

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1842

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1/3 mining workforce: under 19

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1844

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Factory Act

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1844

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Railways regulation Act

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1844

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Mining Act- not allowed to work under the age 10

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1844

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Health of Towns Association

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1847

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10 hour act: limits length of working day

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1848

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Public Health Act passed

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1852-57

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Burial Acts

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1866

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154 joint stock banks

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1866

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Sanitary Act

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