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'Spa Fields Riot' in London in 1816, failed insurrections - such as the attacks on gun shops and the Tower of London in 1816, and the rising at Pentrich in 1817.
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William Cobbett produces a cheap edition of his Political Register to spread reform ideas among the poor.
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Growth of 'Hampden Clubs'.
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Pentrich Rising, Nottinghamshire
'March of the Blanketeers'; unemployed Lancashire weavers march. -
Sir Francis Burdett's motion for parliamentary reform is defeated.
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Peterloo Massacre', Manchester.
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Cato Street Conspiracy; plans for the killing of the cabinet.
The 'Queen Caroline Affair'. -
County meetings organised by leading Whigs to promote parliamentary reform.
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Combination Acts repealed.
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Formation of the Birmingham Political Union.
Catholic Emancipation Act. -
Wellington declares against any need for parliamentary reform.
Swing Riots.
The 'Merthyr Rising: industrial unrest in South Wales.
Reform Riots.
Great Reform Act.Althorp's Factory Act introduces the factory inspectorate. -
Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation for swearing illegal oaths.Poor Law Amendment Act introduces the 'New Poor Law' in England and Wales based on the workhouse system.
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Violent reactions to the New Poor Law in the Midlands and Northern manufacturing counties.
Formation of the Anti-Corn Law League.
Publication of the 'Charter': six political points to democratise Britain.
The first edition of Feargus O'Connor's Northern Star published.
First of the Chartist petitions presented to parliament
The 'Newport Rising'; 20 people die in an exchange between local Chartists and the military.