Theme 1: The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy Flashcards
Society for Constitution Information is established
1780
William Pitt the Younger becomes Prime Minister and unsuccessfully proposes moderate reforms to parliament
1783
William Pitt tries to introduce parliamentary reform again but is defeated
1785
US Constitution is created
1787
The French Revolution
1789
Publication of Reflections of the Revolutions in France by Edmund Burke
1790
Publication of Rights of Man by Edmund Burke
1792
Start of the Napoleonic Wars
1793
Lord Liverpool becomes Prime Minister of a new Tory government
1812
End of Napoleonic Wars
1815
Riots in Islington break out
1816
Harvests fail after a very poor summer
1816
William Cobbett reduces the price of his radical newspaper, Cobbett’s Political Register
1816
March of the Blanketeers
1817
The Derbyshire Rebellion led by Jeremiah Brandreth
1817
The Peterloo Massacre
1819
The failure of the Cato Street Conspiracy sees the end of significantly radical reform attempts
1820
Death of Lord Liverpool
1828
Whigs win the general election
1832
The First Great Reform Act
1832
Slavery abolished
1833
Municipal Corporations Act is passed reforming local government in towns
1835
The London Working Men’s Association is established
1836
‘People’s Charter’ issued
1838
