Ky Dates Flashcards
French revoloution
1789
War with france begins
1793
Speedhamland welfare system adopted
1795
Robert Owen takes overs mills in New Lanark
1799
Combination acts passed
1800
Napoleon proclaimed emperor of France
1804
End of Napoleonic wars with France
1815
Great reform act passed
1832
- Poor law amendment act passed
- tolpuddle martyrs tried
1834
Rochdale pioneers founded
1844
Ten hours act passed
1847
Amalgamated society of engineers founded
1851
End of Chartism
1860
Trades union congress founded
1868
Abolition of slave trade
1807
Peterloo massacre
1819
Abolition of slavery
1833
Peoples charter is published and chartism begins
1838
Andover workhouse scandal
1846
Public health act
1848
Samuel smiles publishes self help
1859
Second reform act is passed
1867
1844
Royal commission and chadwicks theory that poverty caused diseases confirmed
1844
Royal commission and chadwicks theory that poverty caused diseases confirmed
1848
First public health act gave towns the right to appoint a medical officer of health
1833
Regulation act - made it compulsory for all births, marriages and deaths to be registered a a registry office so certificates could be issued
Act of 1788
Minimum age of 8 for apprentices
1834
Chimmmey sweepers act was passed - no child under the age of 14 to engage in chimney sweeping
1819
Cotton mills act - children aged 9-16 limited to 12 hrs work perday and couldnt work at night - not enforced
1833 factory act
- under 18s not allowed to work more than 12 hrs a day or more than 69 a week
- not allowed to work at night
- children employed in a factory between the ages of 9 and 11 had to have 2 hrs of education each day
