Quakers form an organisation to petition against the slave trade?
1783
Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade’s formation?
1787
William Pitt’s first attempt to introduce parliamentary reform?
1785
First poor law?
1601
First anti-slave trade petitions to parliament?
1787-1788 (100+ petitions)
When was the Dolben Act?
1788
French Revolution?
1789
Wilberforce’s first abolition speech to Parliament?
1789
Haitian Revolution?
1791
First abolition bill?
1791
‘Rights of Man’ by Thomas Paine?
1792
Start of Napoleonic Wars?
1793
Friendly Societies Act?
1793
Sugar boycott?
1790s
First suspension of Habeus Corpus?
1794
Speenhamland system?
1795
Robert Owen starts New Lanark?
1799
Combination acts?
1799 and 1800
Death of William Pitt?
1806
Death of John Newton?
1807
Abolition of the slave trade?
1807
800 banks in the UK?
1808
Luddite protests?
1811
12,000 troops sent to Yorkshire to stop industrial violence?
1812
Framebreaking Act (Anti-Luddites)?
1812
Corn Laws?
1815
March of Blanketeers (and end of Luddites)?
1817
Peterloo Massacre?
1819
Master and Servant Act?
1823
Combination acts repealed?
1824
Re-modelling of penal code?
1825-1828
Co-operative newspaper first published?
1827
Death of Lord Liverpool?
1828
Catholic emancipation?
1829
Start of Ten hour movement?
1830
Swing riots?
1830
George IV dies?
1830
First reform act?
1832
First royal commission on poor relief?
1832
Abolition of slavery?
1833
Factory act (reducing child labour hours)?
1833
Poor law amendment act?
1834
Tolpuddle Martyrs doing their thang?
1834
Municipal corporations act?
1835
London Working Men’s Association?
1836
People’s charter issued?
1838
Newport Rising?
1839
First Chartist petition (1 million signatures)?
1839
Mining Act?
1842
Second Chartist petition (3 million signatures)?
1842
Rochdale Pioneers?
1844
Peel’s further factory reform?
1844
Andover Workhouse Scandal?
1845
Corn laws repealed?
1846
Ten hours act?
1847
First public health act?
1848
Great Exhibition?
1851
Amalgamated Society of engineers founded?
1851
First strike action by ASE?
1852
Burial acts?
1852, 1854 and 1857?
Factory act (extends hours for 8-13 year olds)?
1853
Second Friendly Societies act (protecting funds)?
1855
Liberals fail with reform bill?
1859
London Trades Council?
1860
Co-operative Wholesale Society?
1863
Hyde Park Riots?
1866
Second reform act?
1867
Trade Union Congress?
1868
Trade union act?
1871
Secret ballot act?
1872
Factory act (women’s hours)?
1874
Compulsory schooling?
1875
Second public health act?
1875