YEAR.

PRINCIPAL EVENT.

BRIEF NOTES.

1793

1) ALIENS ACT.

1) Stopped foreigners entering country.

1794

1) SUSPENSION OF HABEAS CORPUS

1) Easier to arrest people and imprison without trial.

1796

1) HARVEST FAILURE

1) Bad Weather 4 yrs running.

1798

1) INCOME TAX INTRODUCTION.

1) Earnings over £60 to pay 10%. Wealthy persons objected as it only affected them and not others.

1799

1) FIRST COMBINATION ACT.

1) Banned formation of Trade Unions. Forbade association, for purpose of increasing wages or reducing hours.

1801

1) FIRST OFFICIAL CENSUS.

2) SECOND COMBINATION ACTS.

1) 11.9 Million

2) Banned strikes, union meetings, and collection of union dues.

1808

1) MONITORIAL SCHOOLS.

1) Non-conform. Set up schools using monitorial system teaching 3 Rs. plus religion (Joseph Lancaster (Non-conformist) formed British & Foreign Schools Society.

1811

1) LUDDITE RIOTS

2) SECOND CENSUS.

3) CHURCH CHARITY SCHOOLS.

1)

2) 13.4 Million

3) Anglican churches fund ‘NATIONAL SOCIETY’. To teach 3 Rs. plus Anglican religion. society set up by Andrew Bell (Anglican)

1815

1) CORN LAW ACT.

2) ANGLO-FRENCH WAR ENDS.

3) APOTHECARIES ACT.

1) Prohibited the import of foreign corn until price of English corn reached 80s a quarter (Foreign corn was available for as little as 50s a quarter, thus this act was to maintain a high price.)

2) 1783-1815.

3) Uniform training for physicians by apprenticeship and training.

1816

1) REPEAL OF PROPERTY TAX.

2) LUDDISM.

3) ELY AND LITTLEPORT RIOTS.

4) SPA FIELD RIOTS.

1) Introduction of more indirect taxes, which fell heaviest on the poor.(beer,sugar,salt & clothes etc)

2) Machine breaking in East Midlands, Yorkshire, and Lancashire.

3) Seizure of Littleport by agricultural workers. Dispersed by military forces.

4) London. Organised by ‘Spenceans’ and led by Thistlewood, to seize the Tower. Dispersed at Royal Exchange.

1817

1) HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENDED.2nd TIME

2) BLASPHEMOUS/LIBEL ACTS.

3) BLANKETEERS MARCH.

4) PENTRICH REVOLT.

5) PRINCE REGENT ATTACKED.

1)Firstly in 1794 and now again to allow easier arrest of rioters etc.,

2) Act against blasphemous and seditious libels.

3) From Manchester to London to petition Regent for relief.

4) Organised by Brandreth over Gov. spy ‘Oliver’ Dispersed by military force near Nottingham.

5) Mobs attack Prince Regent demanding Parliamentary Reform.

1819

1) BULLION COMMITTEE.

2) PETERLOO MASSACRE.

2A) GAG ACT INTRODUCED.

3) FACTORIES ACT.

4) BIRTH OF VICTORIA

1) Recommended return to gold standard. Chaired by Peel.

2) Manchester magistrates sent Yeomanry into 80,000 crowd to arrest ‘Orator’ Hunt, crowd panicked, Hussars charged, 11 killed and 400 injured.

2A) Government introduced THE SIX ACTS aimed to prevent delay in admin. of justice, seditious libel, training in arms use, newspaper stamp tax, and proscribed seditious meeting

3) Forbade employment of children under nine in cotton mills.

4)

1820

1) DEATH OF GEORGE III.

2) CATO ST. CONSPIRACY.

3) THE QUEENS TRIAL.

1) Accession of George iv.

2) Plot by Thistlewood to assassinate the cabinet. Conspirators seized in Cato St. London. Thistlewood and four others executed.

3) George iv attempts to divorce Caroline. Public sympathy for queen led to widespread disturbances. (George was unpopular)

1821

1) RETURN TO GOLD STANDARD.

2) THIRD CENSUS.

1) Gold for notes. This was deflationary measure, causing some distress.

2) 15.5 Million.

1822

1) CASTLEREAGH SUICIDE.

2) MINISTRY RECONSTRUCTION.

1)

2) Liverpool gave Canning, Peel, Huskinson, and Robinson key posts in the government.

1823

1) RECIPROCITY/DUTIES ACT.

2) REVISION OF NAVIGATION ACT.

3) REVISION OF CRIMINAL CODE.

1) Substantially increased Britain’s trade.

2) Lifted restrictions on foreign trading vessels.

3) Modified the severity, and improved prison administration.

1824

1) REPEAL COMBINATION ACT.

1) Repeal of 1799 and 1800 act. Which prevents liberty of association among working men.

1825

1) NEW COMBINATION ACT.

2) BANKS COLLAPSE.

3) STOCKTON-DARLINGTON RLY OPENED

1) Limiting freedom passed in 1824 after a wave of strikes.(Made strikes illegal)

2) Wild speculation led to 60 banks collapsing in 7 weeks.

3) First commercial railway (Although very slow, i.e. horse walked in front!)

1826

1) GENERAL ELECTION.

1) Followed by trade recession.

1827

1) CANNING-PRIME MINISTER.

2) CANNING DIES (AUG.)

1) Caused by illness of Liverpool.

2) Goderich- P.M. Failed to form a cabinet.

1828

1) WELLINGTON-PRIME MINISTER.

2) TEST & CORPORATION ACTS REPEALED

3) CORN LAWS REVISION.

4) BLAST FURNACE INVENTED.

1)

2) Against the non-conformists were repealed.

3) Sliding scale. Import prohibited when price below 54s. Progressive tariff between 54s. To 73s. -When corn entered free.

4) (John Nielson) Allowed use of raw coal to fuel the furnace

1829

1) CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION ACT.

2) ESTAB. METRO. POLICE FORCE.

1) Catholics no longer excluded from public office.

2) Established by Peel (i.e. Peelers).

1830

1) WELLINGTONS GOV. FALL.

2) ‘SWING’ RIOTS.("Mythical Capt. Swing")

3) ACCESSION OF WILLIAM IV.

4) LORD GREY-PRIME MINISTER.

5) FIRST GAS STREET LIGHTING

6) SPEENHAMLAND SYSTEM INTRODUCED

7) LIVERPOOL-MANCHESTER RLY.

1)

2) Agricultural labourers burned hayricks, smashed threshing machines etc. (Southern Counties.)

3)

4)

5)

6) Sliding scale relief based on cost of ‘Gallon Loaf’

7) First passenger railway powered by Stephensons ‘Rocket’.

1831

1) FIRST REFORM BILL.

2) GENERAL ELECTION.

3) SECOND REFORM BILL.

4) REFORM RIOTS-NOTTINGHAM

5) THIRD REFORM BILL INTRO.

6) FOURTH CENSUS.

7) MERTHYR RIOTS.

1) Defeated in committee by one vote. Brought in by Russell.

2) Reform fever. "The bill, the whole bill, and nothing but the bill".

3) Passed by House of Commons. (Rejected by Lords)

4)

5) Amended by Lords in 1832.

6) 17.8 Million.

7) See book ‘Merthyr Riots’.

1832

1) LORD GREY RESIGNS

2) WHIG PEERS INCREASED.

3) GREAT REFORM ACT.

4) ANTI-TRUCK ACT PASSED.

5) ‘SCOTCH CATTLE’ BROTHERHOOD.

1)

2) King promises to create more Whig peers to get bill through the Lords.

3) Redistributed 143 seats and extended the franchise to the £10 householders in towns. £10 copy holders and £50 leaseholders.

4) Forbade part payment of wages by employers in the form of goods. (But did not eliminate the ‘company shops’ or the ‘long-pay’ system.

5) ‘Scotched’ by violence, workers who accepted lowered wages, or where ‘obnoxious’! Also attacked workers homes and even mutilated workers.

1833

1) ABOLITION OF SLAVERY.

2) FACTORIES ACT.

3) EDUCATION ACT.

4) OXFORD MOVEMENT.

5) G.N.C.T.U. (FIRST PROPER UNION).

1) Ended slavery in British Colonies. £20 million in compensation.

2) Prohibited employment of children under nine. Granted an 8hr day to children under 13yrs, also provided inspectors

3) Grants to Anglican & Non-conformist religious societies that controlled education.

4) Founded. Publication of ‘Tracts for the Times’.

5) Founded by Robert Owen. First properly organised union with up to 800,000 members

1834

1) TOLPUDDLE MARTYRS.

 

2) LORD MELBOURNE-P.M.

3) POOR LAW AMENDMENT ACT.

4) G.N.C.T.U. COLLAPSE.

5) ROBERT PEEL-PRIME MINISTER.

6) TAMWORTH MANIFESTOES.

7) HIGHWAYS ACT.

1) Farm workers wages where lowered from 40p to 30p Geo. Loveless attempted to form branch of G.N.C.T.U. Workers arrested under Mutiny Act 1797 for taking an oath. Transported to Australia.

2)

3) Abolished the ‘Speenhamland’ system and instituted a new system of poor relief based on the workhouse.

4 Due to theft and fraud by its officials plus the fact that skilled workers would not join a mixed trade union.

5)

6) Peel’s electoral address at Tamworth. Clear assertion of Conservative principles.

7) Toll co. to pay for repair of own roads and not the parish.

1835

1) ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION.

2) MUNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT.

3) TOWN COUNCILS POLICE

4) FIRST CHARTISTS RIOTS.

1) Established to investigate church reform.

2) Instituted more uniform system of local government in the town. (It diminished corruption and abolished municipal privileges.

3) Town councils set up own police forces.

4) LLanidloes.

1836

1) REGISTRATION ACT

2) DISSENTING MARRIAGES ACT.

3) TITHE COMMUTATION ACT.

4) NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTY DOWN

5) LONDON WORKING MEN ASSOC.

1) Registration of births, deaths, and marriages.

2) Marriages allowed in churches, registry offices, and chapels. Removed a major dissenter’s grievance.

3) Compulsory commutation of tithes, Tithe owners and payer to decide value of the tithe based on prices of cereal crops over 7 years.

4) Reduced from 4p to 1p.

5) Founded by William Lovell.

1837

1) DEATH WILLIAM IV.

2) ACCESSION QUEEN VICTORIA.

3) B’HAM POLIT. UNION REORG.

4) NORTHERN STAR NEWSPAPER

5) TELEGRAPH INVENTED.

1)

2)

3) Ultra-radical political programme initiated by Thomas Attwood.

4) Published by Feargus O’Connor (50,000 copies weekly)

5) Cooke and Wheatstone.

1838

1) PEOPLE’s CHARTER PUBLISHED.

2) ANTI-CORN LAW LEAGUE

3) MANCHESTER ANTI-CORN ASSOC

1)

2) Formation of league.

3) Manchester anti-corn law association founded.

1839

1) LORD MELBOURNE RESIGNS

2) ‘BEDCHAMBER CRISIS’.

3) CHARTISTS CONVENTION

4) ANTI-CORN LEAGUE FOUNDED.

5) ANTI-CORN LAW CIRCULAR.

6) FIRST CHARTISTS PETITION

7) FROST’S NEWPORT RISING.

8) REBECCA RIOTS START.

9) FIRST PHOTOGRAPHY.

1) Resigns over Jamaica Bill.

2) Peel refused to take office unless the Whig ladies where dismissed. Queen refused. Melbourne was restored as P.M.

3) London.

4) Led by Richard Cobden and John Bright.

5) Published 15,000 copies.

6) 1.28 Million signatures. Rejected by 235 votes to 46.

7) Chartists from the valley marched to Newport, scattered by troops, Leaders where transported to Australia.

8) See separate book ‘Rebecca’s Children’ (1839-45).

9) Wm. Fox Albert, First single uncopyable prints available.

1840

1) PENNY POST ESTABLISHED.

2) QUEEN VICTORIA MARRIED

3) NATIONAL CHARTER ASSOC.

4) FIRST CO-OP SET UP.

5) GRAMMAR SCHOOL ACT.

1) Rowland Hill G.P.O.

2) To Prince Albert (Austrian).

3) Founded

4) Set up in Rochdale.

5) Allowed teaching of multiple subjects in separate schools.

1841

1) GOVERNMENT DEFEATED.

2) GENERAL ELECTION

3) PEEL AS PRIME MINISTER.

4) STOCKPORT MP

5) FIFTH CENSUS.

1) Defeated in Commons.

2) Conservative Victory.

3)

4) Richard Cobden elected.

5) 20.2 Million.

1842

1) SUFFRAGE UNION.

2) SECOND CHARTIST PETITION.

3) PLUG-PLOT STRIKES.

4) ANTI CORN LAW MARCHERS.

5) FIRST FREE-TRADE BUDGET.

6) MINES ACT.

7) BANK CHARTER ACT.

8) COMPANY ACT

9) RAILWAY ACT.

10) FACTORY ACT.

11) MODIFICATION TO CORN LAW.

1) Founded in Birmingham by Joseph Sturge.

2) 3.3 Million signatures. Rejected by Commons 287 to 49.

3) In Staffordshire and Lancashire.

4) 500 march to Westminster to lobby M.Ps.

5) Reduction in import duty on over 700 items. Income tax of 7d in the pound was introduced to offset the fall in income.

6) Women and children forbidden to work underground.

7) Logical follow on from Bullion Committee of 1819

8) Companies now had to register with Board of Trade and produce annual balance sheets.

9) Third class passengers to be carried at 1d per mile.

10) Children 8 to 13 to work a six and a half-hour day. Dangerous machinery to be fenced.

11) Restrictions to be eased during periods of dearth.

1843

1) THE LEAGUE.

1) ACLL Newspaper published. Manchester middle class movement of industrialists and manufacturers

1844

1) CORN-LAW DEBATE.

2) REDUCTION WORKMAN HOURS

1) Cobden and O’Connor discuss bill in Nottingham.

2) Reduced to 12 hours.

1845

1) CHARTISTS LAND PLANS.

2) IRISH POTATO FAILURE.

3) ‘EDINBURGH LETTER’

4) PEEL RESIGNS

5) RAILWAY MANIA STARTS.

6) PENNY A MILE ACT.

1) Co-operative venture to give 4 acre plots. Crashed in 1848.

2) Lasted from 1845-1848. Approx. 2 million people starved. (1820-1920, 5 Million emigrated)

3) Russell accepts the need to repeal the Corn Laws.

4) Russell fails to form a government.

5) Numerous schemes (approx 272) proposed and built many failures and bankruptcies.

6) Railways where forced to carry passengers at a penny a mile.

1846

1) CORN LAW REPEAL.

1) Repeal was to be effected over 3 years. Farmers were to receive some government aid as a palliative.

1847

1) NOTTINGHAM MP

2) WOMENS HOURS REDUCED.

3) FIRST ANAESTHETIC.

4) IRISH POOR LAW EXTENSION ACT.

5) POOR LAW ACT.

1) Feargus O’Connor elected.

2) Reduced to 10 hours in cotton mills. (Also young people as well).

3) James Simpson, (Glasgow Inf). First to use Chloroform.

1848

1) LONDON RIOTS.

2) LONDON CHARTISTS CONVEN.

3) CHARTISTS AT KENNINGTON.

4) CHARTISTS NATIONAL ASSEMB.

5) FAMINE IN IRELAND

6) FIRST PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.

7) PRE-RAPHAELITE GROUP.

1) Riots in London, Glasgow, and Manchester prompted by rising unemployment and the European revolutions.

2) Held in London.

3) 12 million signatures. Rejected (Many where forgeries).

4) Chartists riot in northern England.

5)

6) Introduced by Edwin Chadwick.

7) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood formed. (Rosetti, Holman-hunt, Maddox-Brown,etc)

1849

DISRAELI, APP. PARTY LEADER

REPEAL NAVIGATION ACTS

1)

2)

1850

WORKHOUSE CHILDREN.

LIBRARIES ACT.

IRISH FRANCHISE ACT.

1) Over 45 thousand children in workhouses (38% of total residents).

2) Authorised L.As. To set up public libraries on the rates.

1851

1) GREAT EXHIBITION OPENS

2) CHARTISTS LAND COMPANY.

3) PROPER PHOTOGRAPHY.

4) MORSE CODE INVENTED

5) SINGER INVENT SEWING MACH.

SIXTH CENSUS.

ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ACT.

1) Crystal Palace. Hyde Park, 6 Million people visited.

2) Wound up.

3) On glass plates (also copyable, prints could be made)

4) Samuel Morse invented Morse Code for ship to shore and telegraph use.

5) Singer (American) invents treadle driven automatic sewing machine.

5) 22.2 Million.

6)

1852

1) PATENT LAW AMMEND. ACT.

 

1853

1) SMALLPOX VAC. COMPULSORY.

1) For all young children.

1854

BRIT. INVOL. CRIMEA WAR

OXFORD UNIVERSITY ACT

CORRUPT(ELECTORAL) PRACTICES ACT

British troops committed to fighting in Crimean War.

1855

1) FEARGUS O’CONNOR DIES.

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE.

METROPOLIS MANAGEMENT ACT

LIMITED LIABILITY ACT

1) Estimated 50,000 at funeral in London.

2) Goes to Scutari to look after troops etc.

3)

4)

1856

1) CRIMEAN WAR ENDS.

2) BESSEMERS BLAST FURNACE.

COUNTY & BOROUGH POLICE ACT.

CAMBRIDGE UNIV. ACT

1)

2) Able to turn pig iron into steel directly, but needed foreign ores, therefore furnaces where moved to the coastal areas, causing local job losses in original area.

4)

5)

1857

INDIAN MUTINY.

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ACT (DIVORCES)

1)

2)

1858

1) CHARTISTS CONFERENCE

2) NEWCASTLE COMMISSION.

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.

PROPERTY QUAL. FOR MPs ACT.

JEWISH DISABILITIES ACT.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT

INDIA ACT

1) Agree to co-operate with moderate Radicals.

2) Looked at education of working class children.

3) Set uniform standards of training for doctors (Males only!) G.M.C. Formed.

4)

5)

6)

7)

1859

1) DARWIN’S BOOK PUBLISHED

1) Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’ book published.

1860

NIGHTINGALE SCHOOLS OF NURSING.

FOOD/DRINK ADULTERATION ACT

Florence Nightingale sets up standards of care for schools of nursing.

1861

1) REPEAL OF NEWSPAPER TAX

SEVENTH CENSUS.

BANKRUPTCY & INSOLVENCY ACT.

1) Made Gladstone popular with provincial press.

24.5 Million.

1862

1) LINCOLN ABOLISHED SLAVERY

2) EDUCATION GRANTS FROM GOVT.

1)

2) £812,000 given by government to schools to teach 3 Rs. and little else.

1863

P.O. SAVING BANK FORMED

SECURITY AGAINST VIOLENCE ACT

1)

2) "Garotters" Act

1864

1) 1st CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT.

1) Others followed in 1866 and 1869.

1865

1) RED FLAG ACT.

2) AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ENDS.

LINCOLN ASSASSINATED.

MEDICAL ADVANCES.

5)URBAN CHARGEABILITY ACT

1) Speed limit on horseless carriages introduced.

2) Colonial Laws Validity Act.

3)

4)Listers use of Carbolic Acid as an antiseptic reduced mortality, Pasteur discovers ‘pasteurisation’ to safely store some foodstuffs, i.e. milk and canned foods.

Poor Law Amendment Act.

1866

1) FIRST REFORM BILL.

2) SHEFFIELD RIOTS.

3) SANITARY ACT.

1) Bill rejected.

2) Striking workers bombed employers homes and homes of non-striking workers.

3)

1867

1) SECOND REFORM BILL

2) REDISTRIBUTION ACT.

BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN ACT.

5) FACTORY ACTS, EXTENSION ACT.

1) Which established household suffrage.

2) Passed to exclude urban and suburban voters from the counties.

3)

5)

1868

TORRENS ACT.

2) ABOL. COMPL. CHURCH RATES ACT.

L.As. Can compel slum landlords to repair their property up to local standards.

2)

1869

1) IRISH CHURCH DISESTABLISHED

SUEZ CANAL OPENED.

T.UNION FUNDS PROTECTION ACT

1) Irish Anglican Churches dies. Britain was to wait until 1918. C.o. W. formed march 1920.

Steam ships only meant that sailing ships quickly went out of fashion and declined.

1870

1) IRISH LAND ACT

2) CIVIL SERVICE REFORM.

3) ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACT.

4) Dr BARNARDO, S FIRST HOME.

5) 1st MARRIED WOMENS PROPERTY ACT.

6) ARMY ENLISTMENT ACT.

1)

2) All public offices (except foreign office) open to public competition.

3) Elected School Boards to fill in gaps left in system between voluntary and private schools.

4) First home for boys in Stepney.

5) Women can retain ownership of inherited property

6)

1871

1) ARMY REGULATION ACT.

2) TRADES UNION ACT.

3) CRIMINAL LAW AMEND. ACT

4) EIGHTH CENSUS.

5) LOCAL GOV. BOARD/POOR LAW BOARD

6) COAL PRODUCTION RISES.

7) BANK HOLIDAYS ACT.

1) Modernisation of British Army

2) Made unions legal, protected their funds and allowed rights to strike.

3) Forbade all picketing. Illegal to molest/obstruct workers entering workplace during a strike.

4) 27.4 Million.

5) Amalgamate.

6) Coal production reaches 118 million tons P.A. (Germany 38 Millions Tons & U.S.A. 15 Million) Tons.)

7) Added 4 extra public holidays to Good Friday and Xmas Day.

1872

1) BALLOT ACT.

2) LICENSING ACT.

3) TYPEWRITER INVENTED.

4) FIRST AGRICULTURAL UNION.

1) Introduced the secret Ballot.

2) Tightened control of licences and fixed closing hours

3)

4) National Agricultural Labour Union set up.

1873

1) JUDICATURE ACT.

1) Consolidated and rationalised the admin. Of justice.

1874

1) PUBLIC WORSHIP ACT.

2) FACTORY ACT 10 HR DAY.

3) CHILD LABOUR ACT.

1) Suppressed ritualistic practices in Church of England.

2) For all workers.

2) Minimum age for child labour set at ...........yrs.

1875

1) PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.

2) EMPLOYERS & WORKMANS ACT.

3) CONSPIRACY/PROTECTION ACT.

AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT.

ARTISANS DWELLING ACT

6) SALE OF FOOD/DRUGS ACT.

1) Consolidated previous statutes.

2) Both employers and workman can sue for breach of contract

3) Conspiracy and Protection of Property Act allowed peaceful picketing by unions & persons.

Provides compensation for tenants who improve their holdings

5)

6)

1876

1) SANDON’S EDUCATION ACT.

2) VICTORIA, EMPRESS OF INDIA.

3) BELL INVENTED TELEPHONE.

FEMALE MEDICAL STUDENTS TRAINED

5) MERCHANT SHIPPING ACT.

1) A step towards compulsory education.

2)

3)

4)First female students train as doctors. Allowed only to do medicine and not surgery.

5)

1877

1) PRISONS ACT

1)

1878

1) ELECTRIC STREET LIGHTING.

2) SALVATION ARMY FORMED.

3) FACTORY & WORKSHOPS ACT.

1)

2) William Booth (1829-1912)

3)

1879

1) ZULU WARS START.

1) VACUMM ELECT. LIGHT BULB.

1)

2) First vacuum electric bulb invented.

1880

MUNDELLA ACT.

BURIALS ACT

3) EMPLOYERS LIABILITY ACT

Compulsory elementary education, up to age ten.

2)

3)

1881

1) IRISH LAND ACT.

2) NINTH CENSUS.

1)

2) 31.0 Million.

1882

1) 2nd MARRIED WOMEN’S PROPERTY.

1) Married women’s property act gave married women the same property rights as single women.

1883

1) CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT.

2) AGRICULTURAL ACT.

1) Fixed limit for election expenses in proportion to number of votes.

2) Firmed up the 1875 act to make provision compulsory.

1884

1) THIRD REFORM ACT.

1) Adult manhood suffrage added 2 million voters to the electorate.

1885

REDISTRIBUTION ACT.

2) CRIMINAL LAW AMEND. ACT

Single member constituencies. Removal of ‘dead’ constituencies who still returned M. -s.

1886

1) REPEAL CONTAGIOUS DISEASES ACT

1)

1887

1) VICTORIA’S GOLDEN JUBILEE

2) COAL MINES REG. ACT.

1)

2) No boys under 13yrs to be employed.

1888

1) LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT.

1) Established 62 county councils. Councillors to be elected by householders.

1889

1) DOCKERS STRIKE.

2) CHIDRENS CRUELTY ACT.

1)

2)

1891

1) FREE ELEM. EDUCATION ACT.

2) TENTH CENSUS.

3) TITHE ACT.

1) Free elementary education for all.

2) 34.3 Million.

3) Made tithes payable by landlord and not tenant. (Who simply put up rents to the tenants)

1892

1) DEATH DUTIES BILL INTRODUCED.

1)

1896

1) RED FLAG ACT REPEALED.

2) FIRST NATIONAL NEWSPAPER.

1)

2) Daily Mail.

1897

1) WORKMEN’S COMPEN. ACT

2) VICTORIA’S DIAMOND JUBILEE.

1) Extended compensation to workmen but excluded agricultural workers.

2)

1899

1) BOER WAR BEGINS.

1)

1900

1) CABURY’S VILLAGE TRUST.

2) ROWNTREE SOCIAL SURVEYS.

1) Cadbury builds first village trust for his workers outside Birmingham, at Bourneville

2) Seebohm Rowntree survey of social life in Nth. England.

1901

1) DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA.

2) ELEVENTH CENSUS.

1)

2) 38.2 Million.

1902

1) EDUCATION ACT.

2) ALIEN ACT.

1) School Boards abolished. 140 L.As. created to control local education.

2) Limited Jewish immigration