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