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1829 AD             - (13 Apr)                  - Parliament grants Catholic emancipation
                           - (Jun)                         - Robert Peel sets up the Metropolitan Police
1830 AD             - (26 Jun)                   - George IV dies and is succeeded by his brother William IV
1831 AD             - (Oct)                        - Riots break out over the Parliamentary Reform Bill
                           - (Dec)                        - Samuel Sharpe leads a massive slave revolt in Jamaica
1832 AD            - (04 Jun)                     - Great reform Act changes parliamentary representation
1833 AD            -                                  - Factory Act restricts work hours for women and children
                           - (31 Jul)                     - Parliament passes a bill to abolish slavery in the British Empire
1834 AD            -                                  - New Poor Law reforms Britain’s Social Security System
                          - (Mar)                        - 'Tolpuddle Martyrs’ are sentenced to transportation for trade union activities
1835 AD            -                                  - Municipal Corporations Bill creates town councils
1837 AD            - (20 Jun)                     - Victoria come to the throne after the death of Prince William IV
1838 AD            -                                  - Charles Dickens’ ‘Oliver Twist’ is published
                          - (08 May)                  - People’s Charter advocates social and political reform
                          - (01 Aug)                    - Slavery is abolished in the British Empire
                          - (17 Sept)                   - London-Birmingham line opens and the railway boom starts
1839 AD            - (07 May)                   - Prime Minister Viscount Melbourne resigns and sparks a political crisis
1840 AD            - (10 Jan)                     - A uniform postage rate of one penny is introduced
                           - (June)                        - Vaccination for the poor is introduced
1841 AD            - (Aug)                         - Sir Robert Peel forms a Conservative Government
1842 AD            - (Jun)                          - Income tax is introduced for the first time during peacetime
1843 AD            - (18 May)                   - Church of Scotland splits over separation of church and state
1845 AD            - (Sept)                        - Irish potato famine begins
1846 AD            - (30 Jun)                     - Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel resigns after the Corn Laws are repealed
1847 AD            - (05 Apr)                    - World’s first municipal park opens in Birkenhead, Merseyside
1848 AD            - (13 May)                   - Irish nationalist John Mitchel is arrested for treason
                           - (Jul)                          - Public Health Act aims to reduce death rates
1849 AD            -                                  - Important artists establish the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
1850 AD            -                                  - Robert Stevenson’s Britannia Tubular Bridge is opened
1851 AD            - (Mar)                        - Census reveals the extent of Welsh support for the Non-conformist church
                          - (01 May)                   - The Great Exhibition opens at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, London
1854 AD            - (28 Mar)                   - Britain and France declares war on Russia and the Crimean War begins
1857 AD            - (10 May)                   - Members of the Bengal army mutiny in India
1858 AD            - (30 Jan)                     - Britain’s first permanent symphony orchestra is founded
1859 AD            - (02 May)                   - Devon and Cornwall are linked by a revolutionary new bridge
                          - (24 Nov)                    - Charles Darwin’s ‘On the Origin od Species’ is published
1861 AD            - (08 Feb)                    - Post office savings scheme for ordinary people is launched
                           - (14 Dec)                   - Victoria’s husband, Prince Albert, dies aged 42
1862 AD            - (13 Feb)                    - Education funding becomes linked to pupils’ results
1867 AD            - (16 Mar)                   - Joseph Lister writes on antiseptics in ‘The Lancet’
                           - (15 Aug)                   - Second Reform Act doubles the electorate
1868 AD            - (09 Dec)                    - William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister for the First time
1869 AD            - (26 Jul)                      - William Gladstone disestablishes the Church in Ireland
                           - (17 Nov)                  - Suez Canal opens, linking the Mediterranean and the Red Sea
1870 AD            - (17 Feb)                    - New law introduces secular school boards
                           - (01 Aug)                   - Irish land Act gives rights to tenants
                           - (09 Aug)                   - Women obtain limited rights to retain their property after marriage