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| 1 | 1798 | - 1798: 1798- 1802 First war with Napoleon - Feb-Oct: The Irish Rebellion; 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die - Irish Parliament abolished
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| 2 | 1800 | - 1800: Union of Great Britain and Ireland - Union Jack official British flag
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| 3 | 1801 | - 1801: First census puts the population of England and Wales at 9,168,000 - population of Britain nearly 11 million (75 per cent rural)
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| 4 | 1805 | - 1805: Battle of Trafalgar - Nelson Killed in Action
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| 5 | 1806 | - 1806: First colonists leave Britain for South Africa
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| 6 | 1807 | - 1807: Abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire
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| 7 | 1813 | - 1813: Printed Parish Registers introduced for Baptisms and Burials
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| 8 | 1815 | - 1815: The Corn Laws - Cereals could not be imported into Britain until the domestic price reached eighty shillings a quarter. This price meant that cereals and bread were more expensive than they needed to be and this caused considerable agitation
- 1815: Battle of Waterloo
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| 9 | 1819 | - 1819: First Factory Act - limiting those aged nine and above to a twelve hour day.
- 1819: Peterloo massacre in Manchester
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| 10 | 1820 | - 1820: George IV King of England 1820 - 1830
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| 11 | 1829 | - 1829: Catholic Emancipation Act passed, allowing Catholics to participate in British & political life.
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| 12 | 1830 | - 1830: William IV King of England 1830 - 1837
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| 13 | 1832 | - 1832: Introduction of Electroal Rolls
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| 14 | 1833 | - 1833: 2nd Factory Act - rohibited the employment of under nines in mills and further restricted the time over nines could work.
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| 15 | 1834 | - 1834: Abolition of the institution of slavery in the British Empire
- 1834: Poor Law Ammendment Act - Radical changes to poor relief grouping parishes into Poor Law Unions.
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| 16 | 1835 | - 1835: Tithe Redemtion Act
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| 17 | 1836 | - 1836: Following the second French Revolution influx of French Immigrants
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| 18 | 1837 | - 1837: Victoria Queen of England 1837 - 1901
- 1837: Civil registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales is introduced in the Septemper Quarter.
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| 19 | 1838 | - 1838: Rise of the Chartist Movement
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| 20 | 1840 | - 1840: New Zealand declared a Crown colony
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| 21 | 1842 | - 1842: Mines Act - No female was to be employed underground, no boy under 10 years old was to be employed underground.Parish apprentices between the ages of 10 and 18 could continue to work in the mines.
There were no clauses relating to hours of work, and inspection could only take place on the basis of checking the 'condition of the workers'. Ironically, many women were annoyed that they could no longer earn the much needed money
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| 22 | 1845 | - 1845: Beginning of the Irish Potato Famine
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| 23 | 1846 | - 1846: After the approval of 273 new lines the Railway System rapidly expands
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| 24 | 1850 | - 1850: Factories Act Extended - restricted all women and young people to no more than ten-and-a-half hours work a day.
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1796 - Bef 1851 (< 54 years)