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| 1 | 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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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1820 | - 1820: George IV King of England 1820 - 1830
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| 4 | 1829 | - 1829: Catholic Emancipation Act passed, allowing Catholics to participate in British & political life.
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| 5 | 1830 | - 1830: William IV King of England 1830 - 1837
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| 6 | 1832 | - 1832: Introduction of Electroal Rolls
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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 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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| 9 | 1835 | - 1835: Tithe Redemtion Act
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| 10 | 1836 | - 1836: Following the second French Revolution influx of French Immigrants
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| 11 | 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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| 12 | 1838 | - 1838: Rise of the Chartist Movement
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| 13 | 1840 | - 1840: New Zealand declared a Crown colony
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| 14 | 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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| 15 | 1845 | - 1845: Beginning of the Irish Potato Famine
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| 16 | 1846 | - 1846: After the approval of 273 new lines the Railway System rapidly expands
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| 17 | 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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| 18 | 1856 | - 1856: Crimean War begins. Ends 1856
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| 19 | 1857 | - 1857: Divorce becomes obtainable through the civil courts in England & Wales (Matrimonial Causes Act)
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| 20 | 1858 | - 1858: Start of the British Raj as India is delclared a Crown Colony
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| 21 | 1861 | - 1861: - 1865 American civil war between the emancipationist North and the slaveowning South.
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| 22 | 1865 | - 1865: After the defeat of the south the thirteenth amendment passed effectively abolishing slavery in the USA.
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| 23 | 1867 | - 1867: Canada Becomes A Dominion
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| 24 | 1872 | - 1872: Public Health Act establishes urban & rural sanitary authorities.
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| 25 | 1873 | - 1873: Return of Owners of Land is made listing owners of more than 1 acre in Britain & Ireland.
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| 26 | 1875 | - 1875: Civil registration of Births and Deaths now a legal obligation.
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| 27 | 1879 | |
| 28 | 1882 | - 1882: Married Women's Property Act
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1814 - Aft 1881 (> 68 years)