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1
Q

Quakers form an organisation to petition against the slave trade?

A

1783

2
Q

Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade’s formation?

A

1787

3
Q

William Pitt’s first attempt to introduce parliamentary reform?

A

1785

4
Q

First poor law?

A

1601

5
Q

First anti-slave trade petitions to parliament?

A

1787-1788 (100+ petitions)

6
Q

When was the Dolben Act?

A

1788

7
Q

French Revolution?

A

1789

8
Q

Wilberforce’s first abolition speech to Parliament?

A

1789

9
Q

Haitian Revolution?

A

1791

10
Q

First abolition bill?

A

1791

11
Q

‘Rights of Man’ by Thomas Paine?

A

1792

12
Q

Start of Napoleonic Wars?

A

1793

13
Q

Friendly Societies Act?

A

1793

14
Q

Sugar boycott?

A

1790s

15
Q

First suspension of Habeus Corpus?

A

1794

16
Q

Speenhamland system?

A

1795

17
Q

Robert Owen starts New Lanark?

A

1799

18
Q

Combination acts?

A

1799 and 1800

19
Q

Death of William Pitt?

A

1806

20
Q

Death of John Newton?

A

1807

21
Q

Abolition of the slave trade?

A

1807

22
Q

800 banks in the UK?

A

1808

23
Q

Luddite protests?

A

1811

24
Q

12,000 troops sent to Yorkshire to stop industrial violence?

A

1812

25
Q

Framebreaking Act (Anti-Luddites)?

A

1812

26
Q

Corn Laws?

A

1815

27
Q

March of Blanketeers (and end of Luddites)?

A

1817

28
Q

Peterloo Massacre?

A

1819

29
Q

Master and Servant Act?

A

1823

30
Q

Combination acts repealed?

A

1824

31
Q

Re-modelling of penal code?

A

1825-1828

32
Q

Co-operative newspaper first published?

A

1827

33
Q

Death of Lord Liverpool?

A

1828

34
Q

Catholic emancipation?

A

1829

35
Q

Start of Ten hour movement?

A

1830

36
Q

Swing riots?

A

1830

37
Q

George IV dies?

A

1830

38
Q

First reform act?

A

1832

39
Q

First royal commission on poor relief?

A

1832

40
Q

Abolition of slavery?

A

1833

41
Q

Factory act (reducing child labour hours)?

A

1833

42
Q

Poor law amendment act?

A

1834

43
Q

Tolpuddle Martyrs doing their thang?

A

1834

44
Q

Municipal corporations act?

A

1835

45
Q

London Working Men’s Association?

A

1836

46
Q

People’s charter issued?

A

1838

47
Q

Newport Rising?

A

1839

48
Q

First Chartist petition (1 million signatures)?

A

1839

49
Q

Mining Act?

A

1842

50
Q

Second Chartist petition (3 million signatures)?

A

1842

51
Q

Rochdale Pioneers?

A

1844

52
Q

Peel’s further factory reform?

A

1844

53
Q

Andover Workhouse Scandal?

A

1845

54
Q

Corn laws repealed?

A

1846

55
Q

Ten hours act?

A

1847

56
Q

First public health act?

A

1848

57
Q

Great Exhibition?

A

1851

58
Q

Amalgamated Society of engineers founded?

A

1851

59
Q

First strike action by ASE?

A

1852

60
Q

Burial acts?

A

1852, 1854 and 1857?

61
Q

Factory act (extends hours for 8-13 year olds)?

A

1853

62
Q

Second Friendly Societies act (protecting funds)?

A

1855

63
Q

Liberals fail with reform bill?

A

1859

64
Q

London Trades Council?

A

1860

65
Q

Co-operative Wholesale Society?

A

1863

66
Q

Hyde Park Riots?

A

1866

67
Q

Second reform act?

A

1867

68
Q

Trade Union Congress?

A

1868

69
Q

Trade union act?

A

1871

70
Q

Secret ballot act?

A

1872

71
Q

Factory act (women’s hours)?

A

1874

72
Q

Compulsory schooling?

A

1875

73
Q

Second public health act?

A

1875