THE RADICAL CAMPAIGN FOR REFORM/TORY DOMINANCE AND DECLINE KEY EVENTS

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THE RADICAL CAMPAIGN FOR REFORM/TORY DOMINANCE AND DECLINE

Significant Events 1810-11 Luddite Risings

1812 Spencer Percival assassinated; Liverpool becomes PM

1814 Napoleon abdicated and is exiled to Elba

1815 End of war with France; Corn Laws passed; Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

1816 Income tax repealed against gov's wishes; Spa Fields meeting

1817 Habeus Corpus suspended; Seditious Meetings Act passed; March of the Blanketeers; Peintrich Rising

1818 General Election

1819 Peterloo Massacre; Six acts

1820 George III dies and is succeed by George IV; General Election; Cato Street Conspiracy

1821 Liverpool reconstructs his cabinet; beginnings of Liberal Toryism

1826 General Election

1827 Liverpool resigns; Canning becomes PM and chancellor of exchequer; Canning dies and Goodrich becomes prime minsiter

1828 Goodrich resigns and Wellington becomes PM; Test and corporations act repealed

1829 Catholic Emancipation granted

1830 George VI dies; William IV succeeds; July revolution in France; General Election; Wellington rules out parliamentary reform and then resigns