Radical reformers KEY DATES Flashcards
1789
Outbreak of the French Revolution
1790
Burke’s “Reflections on the Revolution in France”
1791 - 1792
Paine’s “The Rights of Man”
1792
London Corresponding Society formed
May 1792
The Royal Proclamation Against Seditious Writings and Publications
May 1794 (until June 1795)
The Suspension of Habeas Corpus
November 1794
The Treason Trials
October 1795
Copenhagen Fields (3 days after, on the 29th October 1795, the King’s coach was mobbed)
November 1795
“The Two Acts” (also known as the Gagging Acts) - The Treasonable Practices Act and the Seditious Meeting Act
1797
Stamp Tax, a tax on printed media, was increased to make newspapers harder to afford and prevent the less well-off from buying them
1798
The Newspaper Regulation Act was passed to force newspapers to register with the aim of limiting their ability to publish critical articles
July 1799
The Combination Act
1802
Cobbett’s Weekly Political Register first published
1810 - 1812
Luddite Activity is at its height
1812
Founding of the Hampden Club
