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UNIT 1-3 TIMELINE: 1815 - 1840
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- 11815END OF NAPOLEONIC WARS AGAINST FRANCE
- 21816SPA FIELDS MEETING, LONDON
Calls for reform ended in riots and looting - 31817PENTRIDGE RISING
Failure to capture Nottingham Castle by unemployed textile workers - 41817THE BLANKETEERS
A march to London by unemployed Manchester workers to present a petition to the Prince Regent broke up by troops - 51819PETERLOO MASACRE
Meeting in St. Peter's Field, Manchester, to demand parliamentary reform, broke up by force, killing 11 people and wounding hundreds - 61819THE SIX ACTS
The government makes peaceful protest difficult - 71829 - 1830DISTRESS IN TOWN AND COUNTRYSIDE
High poor rates and high unemployment, price of corn kept price of bread high - 81829BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION FOUNDED
Pressure groups to focus and lead reform movements. Many political unions formed throughout Britain - 91829ROMAN CATHOLIC RELIEF ACT
Roman Catholics given the right to vote in general elections and stand for election to the House of Commons - 101830MANY LEADING AND PROVINICIAL PAPERS IN FAVOUR OF PARLIAMENTARY REFORM
Majority greatly reduced (Wellington PM) ministry later defeated civil list vote and Wellington resigns. King William IV asks Grey (Whig leader) to form a government Grey becomes Prime Minister. - 111831-32CHOLERA EPIDEMIC HITS BRITAIN
Roughly 32,000 people die - 121831THIRD REFORM BILL
Passes Commons easily but Lords employ delaying tactics. Grey asks King to create Pro-Reform peers: King refuses.
Grey resigns. Country erupts in violence. Wellington fails to form a government. Grey back as PM and King agrees to create Pro-Reform peers. Threat enough and Bill passes through Lords. - 131831FIRST REFORM BILL
Passed Commons by one vote. Parliament dissolved and general election held. - 141831GENERAL ELECTION
Whigs returned with majority of 130 - 151831SECOND REFORM BILL
Passed by Commons easily but thrown out by Lords country erupts in violence - 161832REFORM BILL BECOMES REFORM ACT
- 171832PARLIAMENTARY REFORM ACT
Makes alterations to the franchise and to the distribution of seats - 181832GENERAL ELECTION
18% Adults males entitled to vote Whigs returned to power - 191836LONDON WORKING MEN'S ASSOCIATION (LWMA) FOUNDED
Founder members were William Lovett, Francis Place and Henry Hetherington: they aimed to appeal to skilled workers seeking reform - 201836NATIONAL RADICAL ASSOCIATION OF SCOTLAND FOUNDED
- 211837QUEEN VICTORIA ACCEDES TO THE TRHONE
General election - 221837SIX POINTS OF THE 'PEOPLE'S CHARTER' WRITTEN
Produced by members of the LWMA together with six radical MPs - 231837FIRST APPREANCE OF THE NORTHERN STAR
Chartist newspaper printed in Leeds and edited by Feargus O'Connor - 241838PUBLICATION OF THE PEOPLE'S CHARTER
Printed in London along with a national petition for Chartist to sign - 251838LONDON DEMOCRATIC ASSOCIATION FOUNDED
A re-branding by George Julian Harney, of the East London Democratic Association (formed 1837) and intended to be the unskilled workers' alternative to the LWMA - 261838MASS RALLIES AND MEETINGS
Held throughout the country, many to elect delegates to a national convention - 271839YEAR OF ACTION
FEBRURAY
National Convention met in London
MAY
National Convention moved to Birmingham
JUNE
First Chartist petition (1.28 million signature) presented to parliament
JULY
Riots at the Bull Ring in Birmingham, followed by the return of the National Convention to London. Rejection of Chartist petition by Parliament (235 votes to 46). National Convention proposed strike action know as 'Sacred Month.
AUGUST
'Sacred Month' called off: Convention dissolved
NOVEMBER
Newport Rising in Monmouthshire - 281840THE END OF CHARTISM?
JANUARY
Attempted rising in Sheffield and Bradford. Many Chartists, including leaders, arrested, tried and imprisoned.