Lord Liverpool's Ministry 1812-1827 - Statistics

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Methodist membership skyrockets, with estimates ranging between 175,000-350,000 by this year	1812	100%
Liverpool's government repeals 2 outdated pieces of 17th century anti-dissenter legislation, according Methodist preachers the same rights as Anglican clergy	1812	100%
Yorkshire croppers turn to machine breaking, after their petition to parliament fails	1812	100%
The Hampden Club is founded in London by Cartwright	1812	100%
William Hedley invents the 'Puffing Billy' locomotive	1813	100%
Sir Humphrey Davy invents the Davy Lamp. Its invention improves the safety of mines, preventing methane gas from reacting with flames and consequently exploding	1813	100%
This Factory Act is introduced, preventing children under the age of 9 from working in cotton factories. It also restricts working hours of young people to 12 hours a day	1819	50%
The Bank of England returns to cash payments	1819	50%
The Poor Relief Act is introduced, amending the Laws For the Relief of the Poor	1819	50%
The Toleration Act is introduced, allowing Nonconformists their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers, subject to acceptance of certain oaths of allegiance	1819	50%
The Six Acts are introduced, designed to reduce disturbances and to check the extension of radical propaganda and organisation	1819	50%
Rotten borough Grampound loses both seats and is reassigned to Yorkshire, with a population of 20,000	1819	50%
The Queen's Affair takes place, a scandal surrounding Queen Caroline, wife of King George IV, as he soughts to divorce her by accusing her of adultery. This leads to a public trial and widespread popular support for the queen.	1820	50%
Liverpool informs George IV that there is an 'increasing spirit in favour of Roman Catholics'	1821	50%
Liverpool's 'new look' cabinet begins to emerge, introducing members such as Canning, Wellington, Peel and Huskisson	1821	50%
The Manchester Guardian is created, acting as a mouthpiece for middle-class manufacturers who want parliamentary representation	1821	50%
Liverpool comes into power, replacing Perceval as MP	May 1812	50%
The Pentrich Uprising takes place, deemed as the last revolt in Britain	10 June 1817	0%
The Peterloo Massacre takes place at St. Peter's Fields in Manchester, with 15 killed and over 600 injured by cavalry	16 August 1819	0%
Engineer George Stephenson designs his first locomotive at Killingworth Colliery, Northumberland	1814	0%
George Stephenson designs a safety lamp similar to that of the Davy Lamp	1815	0%
Liverpool begins the process to remove sinecure offices across Britain this year.	1815	0%
The Corn Laws are introduced, stipulating that no foreign corn could be imported until the price of British corn had reached 80 shilling per quarter. This leads to an increase in bread prices	1815	0%
Following an end to the French Wars, the National Debt stands at a colossal £876 million	1815	0%
Liverpool's government tightens the Game Laws, upsetting the rural poor	1816	0%
Income tax is repealed, leading the government to alternatively raise indirect taxes on commodities	1816	0%
Liverpool introduces the Poor Employment act, making money available for local corporations to develop public works	1817	0%
David Ricardo writes the influential work 'Principles of Political Economy and Taxation'	1817	0%
Habeas corpus is suspended yet again, after an attack on the Prince Regent's coach	1817	0%
Benthamite radicals like James Mill continue to press vocally for an extension of the franchise	1820s	0%
Elizabeth Fry begins her campaign for prison reform	1820s	0%
By this year, Liverpool has removed 1800 sinecure offices	1822	0%
Richard Roberts develops a reliable, cast-iron power loom	1822	0%
Peel is made Home Secretary for the first time	1822	0%
George Canning replaces Castlereagh as Foreign Secretary, his second time in this office	1822	0%
The Reciprocity Act is introduced, encouraging trade treaties with other countries on the basis of mutual tariff reductions	1823	0%
William Wilberforce and Thomas Buxton found the Anti-Slavery Society, coordinating the wider campaign to outlaw slavery throughout the British colonies	1823	0%
Huskisson is appointed President of the Board of Trade	1823	0%
Daniel O'Connell founds the Catholic Association in Ireland	1823	0%
The Combination Acts are repealed, causing an upsurge in small trade unions	1824	0%
Robert Owen moves to the USA to put his ideas about small, integrated, self-sufficient communities into practice	1824	0%
Peel introduces new penal reforms, leading to a more efficient judicial system	1824	0%
Huskisson and Goderich introduce budgets between these two years. They were the first budgets to apply free trade principles	1824-1825	0%
Richard Roberts patents Crompton's mule, regarded as the most important invention in spinning	1825	0%
George Stephenson builds the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the first passenger railway	1825	0%
A commercial crisis occurs. Liverpool blames this on speculation of domestic and foreign assets	1825	0%
James Mill publishes his 'Essays on Government', on which he criticises the dominance of aristocracy in government	1825	0%
The Amending Act is introduced, obstructing future strikes by making it illegal to molest or obstruct other workers	1825	0%
Liverpool's Catholic Emancipation bill is defeated in the House of Lords	1825	0%
Thomas Buxton takes over the Anti-Slavery Party in Parliament, from an aging Wilberforce	1825	0%
The Bank Act is introduced, making it legal for banks to operate as joint-stock banks. This means they can issue notes and function alongside the Bank of England	1826	0%
Lord Liverpool suffers a stroke, marking an end to his government	1827	0%
George Canning replaces Lord Liverpool as PM	1827	0%
The French Wars come to an end at the Battle of Waterloo, with a coalition led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher defeating Napoleon's army	18 June 1815	0%
The Institute of Civil Engineers is founded	2 January 1818	0%
Prominent woollen manufacturer William Horsfall is murdered by 4 Luddites on his way back from the market	April 1812	0%
Foreign Secretary Lord Castlereagh commits suicide, aged 53	August 1822	0%
Over 60 Luddites are put on trial at York Castle. 14 Luddites are executed, including 3 for the murder of William Horsfall	January 1813	0%
The March of the Blanketeers takes place. Rumour has it, that only one blanketeer makes it to Parliament to present their petition	March 1817	0%
Between these two months, Henry Hunt leads the Spa Fields demonstration	November-December 1816	0%

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