Condition of England - Key Dates

End of the Napoleonic Wars

Corn Laws

Spa Fields Meeting

When was the Luddism Movement

Harsh Winter

Suspension of Habeas Corpus

March of the Blanketeers

Pentrich Rising

Peterloo Massacre

The Six Acts

Cato Street Conspiracy

Trade improved and popular protests subsided

Repeal of the Combination Acts

Lord Liverpool resigns

Metropolitan Police Force established in London

Roman Catholic Emancipation Act

Ten Hours Movements Starts

Swing Riots

First Cholera Epidemic in England

Poor Law Commission set up

Great (Parliamentary) Reform Act

Royal Commission into the Employment of Children in Factories

Factory Acts & First Government grant for education

Poor Law Amendment Act (New Poor Law)

Tolpuddle Martyrs Sentence

Grand National Consolidated Trades Union (GNCTU) launched

Municipal Corporations Act

Beginning of the Great Victorian Depression 'the Hunger 40s'

Introduction of New Poor Law to North of England

Anti-Poor Law campaign

People's Charter Launched

Birmingham Riots

Newport Rising

Mines Act

Husker Pit Disaster

Plug Riots

Chadwick's Report on Sanitary Conditions

Factories Act

Factory Act (Ten Hours Act)

Public Health Act

Third Chartist Petition rejected

Factory Act

Factory Act

Gaols Act