| 1776-85 |
American Revolution and war between the colonists and Britain |
| 1789 | Outbreak of the French Revolution |
| 1790 | Edmund Burke publishes ‘Reflections on the Revolution in France’ |
| 1791 | Thomas Paine publishes ‘The Rights of Man’ in response to Burke |
| 1793 | Outbreak of the war with France |
| 1799 | Napoleon seizes power in France |
| 1801 | Act of Union with Ireland |
| 1815 | The Battle of Waterloo ends the Napoleonic Wars |
| 1819 | The ‘Peterloo’ massacre followed by the ‘Six Acts’ (see Lancashire) |
| 1829 | Catholics get the right to vote |
| 1830 | Earl Grey becomes Prime Minister |
| 1831 | Bristol and other Reform riots (after the first Reform Bill was rejected by the House of Lords) |
| 1832 | The ‘Great’ Reform Act is passed |
| 1833 | Factory Act regulates child labour |
| 1834 | The New Poor Law leads to more workhouses |
| 1837 | Victoria becomes queen |
| 1838 | The ‘People’s Charter’ is launched in Glasgow |
| 1839 | The first Chartist petition is rejected by Parliament |
| The Newport Uprising fails (see Monmouth) | |
| 1848 | Last mass Chartist rally at Kennington, London (see Feargus O’Connor) |
| 1854-6 | The Crimean War |
| 1866 | The ‘Hyde Park riots' (see Marylebone, London) |
| 1867 | John Stuart Mill asks Parliament to include votes for women – this is rejected |
| The Second Reform Act is passed | |
| 1872 | The Ballot Act is passed; first vote held in secret at Pontefract, Yorkshire |
| 1883 | The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act is passed |
| 1884 | The Third Reform Act is passed |
| 1885 | The Redistribution Act is passed |
| 1893 | Independent Labour Party (the forerunner to the Labour Party) founded |
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