Condition of England - Key Dates

Question	Answer
End of the Napoleonic Wars	1815
Corn Laws	1815
Spa Fields Meeting	1816
When was the Luddism Movement	1816
Harsh Winter	1817
Suspension of Habeas Corpus	1917
March of the Blanketeers	1817
Pentrich Rising	1817
Peterloo Massacre	1819
The Six Acts	1819
Cato Street Conspiracy	1820
Trade improved and popular protests subsided	1820s
Repeal of the Combination Acts	1824
Lord Liverpool resigns	1827
Metropolitan Police Force established in London	1829
Roman Catholic Emancipation Act	1829
Ten Hours Movements Starts	1830
Swing Riots	1830-1
First Cholera Epidemic in England	1831
Poor Law Commission set up	1832
Great (Parliamentary) Reform Act	1832
Royal Commission into the Employment of Children in Factories	1833
Factory Acts & First Government grant for education	1833
Poor Law Amendment Act (New Poor Law)	1834
Tolpuddle Martyrs Sentence	1834
Grand National Consolidated Trades Union (GNCTU) launched	1834
Municipal Corporations Act	1835
Beginning of the Great Victorian Depression 'the Hunger 40s'	1837
Introduction of New Poor Law to North of England	1837
Anti-Poor Law campaign	1837-8
People's Charter Launched	1838
Birmingham Riots	1839
Newport Rising	1839
Mines Act	1842
Husker Pit Disaster	1842
Plug Riots	1842
Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions	1842
Factories Act	1844
Factory Act (Ten Hours Act)	1847
Public Health Act	1848
Third Chartist Petition rejected	1848
Factory Act	1850
Factory Act	1853
Gaols Act	1923

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