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1760 | George
III |
| 1780 |
The
Gordon Riots |
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| 1789 |
French
Revolution |
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| 1807 |
Slave
Trade abolished |
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| 1811/16 |
The Luddites | |
| 1811 |
Prince of Wales
became Prince Regent |
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| 1812 |
Riots
in Sheffield |
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| 1815 |
End
of Napoleonic Wars |
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| 1816 |
The
Spa Fields Riots |
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| 1817 |
March of Blanketeers |
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| 1817 |
The
Pentrich Rising (the Derbyshire Insurrection) |
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| 1819 |
The
Manchester Patriotic Union Society was formed |
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| 1819 |
Peterloo
Massacre |
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| 1819 |
The
Six Acts |
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| 1820 |
George
IV |
|
| 1821 |
Manchester
Guardian began publication |
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| 1830 |
William
IV |
|
| 1834 |
Grand
National Consolidated Trade Union set up with 800,000 members |
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| 1837 |
Victoria |
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| 1842 |
Reading
the Riot Act, Manchester Town Hall |
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| 1842 |
Attack
on a Print-Works, Salford |
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| 1842 |
Attack
on Military, Preston, Two rioters shot |
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| 1842 |
Attack
on the Workhouse, Stockport |
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| 1842 |
The Galway Starvation Riots |
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| 1844 |
Cooperative
Movement starts in Rochdale |
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| 1847 |
Factory
Act limits women and children to work a maximum of 10 hours a day |
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| 1852 |
The
Stockport Riots |
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