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Grey and Melbourne 1830-1837 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 2 times
- The average score is 28 of 63
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| Lord Althorpe is appointed Leader of the Commons | 1830 | 100%
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| The Swing Riots are subdued | 1831 | 100%
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| Francis Place founds the National Political Union | 1831 | 100%
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| The first cholera outbreak is reported in Sunderland | 1832 | 100%
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| This Factory Act is introduced. This limits the working hours for children aged 13-18 to 12 per day, and 8 hours for those 9-12. This actually pleases industrialists, enabling them to work children in relays | 1833 | 100%
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| A Commission of Inquiry discovers corruption and abuse of municipal corporations throughout many boroughs | 1833 | 100%
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| In light of Henry Buxton losing his seat, Lord Ashley takes over the 10 Hour Movement | 1833 | 100%
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| In efforts to help educate the poor, the government grants £20,000 to be shared between the National Society and British & Foreign Society | 1833 | 100%
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| The Coercion Act is passed to stop rural Irish unrest and ongoing refusal of Catholic tenants to pay tithe to Anglican clergy. It also gives wide powers to Irish authorities, such as curfews and suppression of disturbances | 1833 | 100%
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| The Slavery Abolition Act is passed | 1833 | 100%
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| The Oxford Movement is founded at the University of Oxford, a renewal of Roman Catholic thought and practice within the Church of England in opposition to its Protestant tendencies | 1833 | 100%
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| Birmingham Town Hall is commissioned | 1834 | 100%
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| The Poor Law Amendment Act is introduced, abolishing outdoor relief and replacing it with a system of indoor relief in the form of workhouses | 1834 | 100%
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| Robert Owen attempts to unite all unions under the banner of the Grand National Consolidated Trades Union (GNCTU) | 1834 | 100%
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| Edinburgh's Royal Institution is commissioned | 1836 | 100%
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| The repeal of taxes on newspapers, a 'tax on knowledge', allows working-class readers access to radical ideas | 1836 | 100%
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| The Reform Club becomes a centre for Liberal political organisation | 1836 | 100%
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| The Liverpool Medical Institution is commissioned | 1837 | 100%
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| Robert Stephenson is appointed Chief Engineer of the London to Birmingham railway | 1837 | 100%
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| A deep trade recession leads to a fall in union membership | 1837 | 100%
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| Chartism is launched, releasing its list of six points voicing parliamentary reform | 1838 | 100%
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| The Anti-Corn Law League is founded, mainly composed of middle-class men protesting by passive means | 1838 | 100%
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| The first steamship is launched | 1838 | 100%
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| The first municipal elections are held in Britain | 1838 | 100%
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| The grant given to the National and British & Foreign Society is increased to £30,000, with a Cabinet committee appointed to oversee how the money is spent | 1838 | 100%
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| Earl Grey gives up politics together | 1839 | 100%
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| James Kay-Shuttleworth establishes the first teacher training college | 1839 | 100%
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| An economic upturn begins | 1840 | 100%
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| King William IV invites Sir Robert Peel to form a government | 10 December 1834 | 0%
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| Earl Grey becomes PM, replacing Wellington | 16 November 1830 | 0%
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| Slave revolts between these two years take place in Jamaica | 1831-1832 | 0%
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| King William IV dies, aged 71 | 20 June 1837 | 0%
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| Queen Victoria ascends to the throne | 20 June 1837 | 0%
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| King George IV dies, aged 67 | 26 June 1830 | 0%
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| King William IV ascends to the trone | 26 June 1830 | 0%
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| Peel becomes PM for the second time | 30 August 1841 | 0%
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| The Newport Rising takes place | 3 November 1839 | 0%
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| The Great Reform Bill gains royal assent, marking a new era of social reform | 7 June 1832 | 0%
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| Melbourne returns to office for his second term as PM | 8 April 1835 | 0%
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| The Municipal Corporations Act is introduced, ordering all incorporated boroughs to set up police forces under the control of a watch committee | 9 September 1835 | 0%
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| Lord John Russell, Henry Brougham and Durham are dropped from cabinet, deemed the most outspoken Whig reformers | April 1835 | 0%
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| Earl Grey resigns as Whig leader | August 1834 | 0%
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| Lord Melbourne becomes PM | August 1834 | 0%
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| The Whigs retain a majority in this General Election, although lose ground to the Tories | August 1837 | 0%
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| The Whigs win this General Election 479:179, gaining an overwhelming majority in Parliament | December 1832 | 0%
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| Peel appoints Francis Bonham, who is largely responsible for the greater organisation of the Tory Party after 1832 | December 1834 | 0%
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| Peel delivers his Tamworth Manifesto, laying the foundations of the Conservative Party | December 1834 | 0%
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| The Lichfield House Compact is formed, a coalition between Irish Radicals and the Whig party | February 1835 | 0%
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| Methodist Sir Josiah Guest becomes MP | January 1833 | 0%
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| The Chartists present their first petition to parliament, almost three miles long and containing 1,280,000 signatures | July 1839 | 0%
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| The Conservatives gain a majority under Sir Robert Peel, marking an end to Melbourne's second administration | July 1841 | 0%
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| Another slightly amended bill is introduced, and passes through the House of Commons | June 1831 | 0%
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| The London Working Men's Association is formed | June 1836 | 0%
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| The Great Reform Bill is defeated at the Committee Stage of the Commons | March 1831 | 0%
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| In retaliation to the Great Reform Bill, Parliament is dissolved | March 1831 | 0%
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| The Tolpuddle Martyrs are put on trial and transported to Australia for organising trade union activities | March 1834 | 0%
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| A new election is held, with the Whigs gaining a 135 seat majority | May 1831 | 0%
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| Another revised version of the Great Reform Bill is rejected yet again. In response to this, Grey requests that the King creates 50 new peers to force the bill through the Lords | May 1832 | 0%
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| Mass demonstrations take place in Birmingham, Manchester and London | May 1832 | 0%
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| In light of the King agreeing to create new peers if the Lords reject it again, the Lords finally pass the Great Reform Bill | May 1832 | 0%
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| King William IV dismisses Melbourne's first government | November 1834 | 0%
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| The majority-Tory House of Lords rejects the Reform Bill | October 1831 | 0%
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| The defeat of the Reform Bill stirs havoc, as the centre of Bristol is destroyed by an out-of-control crowd. The Dukes of Wellington and Newcastle also fall victim to these attacks, their houses attacked by mobs | October 1831 | 0%
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