Artifact 15 :timeline

Timeline:

1801: The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.

1805: The Battle of Trafalgar eliminates the French and Spanish naval fleets and allows for British dominance of the seas, a major factor for the success of the British Empire later in the century.

1807: Britain abolishes the slave trade

1815: Corn Laws are introduced to protect British agriculture.

1816: Year Without a Summer: Unusually cold conditions wreak havoc throughout the Northern Hemisphere, likely caused by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.

1819: Eleven die at the Peterloo massacre in Manchester.

1825: World's first steam locomotive passenger service begins

1833: Slavery Abolition Act bans slavery throughout the British Empire.

1834: New Poor Law reforms Britain's social security system.

1839–60: After two Opium Wars, France, the United Kingdom, the United States and Russia gained many concessions from China resulting in the decline of the Qing Dynasty.

1845: Irish potato famine begins.
1851: The Great Exhibition in London was the world's first international Expo or World's Fair.

1858: Britain's first permanent symphony orchestra is founded

1859: The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin published.

1869: Suez Canal opens, linking the Mediterranean and the Red Sea

1876: Victoria is declared empress of India.

1880: Education becomes compulsory for children under ten

1881: Sir William Armstrong's home becomes the first to use electric light

1883: Married women obtain the right to acquire their own property

1897: Women's suffrage campaign gains momentum .   

1899; Second Boer War begins in South Africa.

--Credits to the BBC British history time line and the 19th century page of Wikipedia.


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