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We do hope that you find this list useful, and as we research more into our ancestors and come across any other dates during the 1800's that we feel may interest you we will add to this page, so please return in future months as we do update our site regularly. We have placed some hyperlinks to other pages of our site that deal with the said occasion listed.
Best Wishes to you all - Peter & Family.
1801 - The first Census held
1811 - Prince George become Prince Regent
1812 - Charles Dickens is born
1815 - The battle of Waterloo
1819 - The Peterloo Massacre
1820 - George III dies. George IV becomes king.
1825 - The world's first public passenger railway opens (The Stockton and Darlington railway).
1829 - Sir Robert Peel founded the Metropolitan Police
1830 - George IV dies. William IV becomes king.
1833 - Slavery is abolished throughout the British Empire
1837 - William IV dies. Queen Victoria comes to British throne
1838 - Sussex forms the first County Cricket Club
1840 - 6th of May was when the penny black stamp is introduced.
1842 - A new law bans women and children from working underground in mines
1843 - The first Rugby
Football Club is formed at Guy’s Hospital, London
1846 - Great Potato Famine in Ireland
1847 - A new law bans women and children from working more than 10 hours a day
1848 - Cholera epidemics in British towns. The Health Act is passed.
1850 - Death of the poet William Wordsworth
1851 - First Great Exhibition in Crystal Palace, London
1854/56 - The Crimean War
1856 - William Gladstone grants home rule to Ireland
1860 - HMS Warrior, Britain's first iron warship is launched
1860's - The first fish
and chip shops appeared in Britain during the 1860s.
1861 - Prince Albert dies.
1861 to 1865 - The Lancashire Cotton famine
1863 - The Rules of Football are formalized by the Football Association
1863 - The first (steam driven) underground train in London
1867 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes British Prime Minister
1867 - Death of the writer Charles Dickens
1868 - The last public execution in England
1868 - Trade unions legalized in Britain
1870 - Education Act to provide state education
1871 - Bank Holidays in Britain were introduced
1872– The first International Football Match ended in a draw, England 0 – Scotland 0
1873 - The game of Lawn Tennis was invented
1874 - Benjamin Disraeli becomes British Prime minister for second time
1875 - A law bans the practice of sending small boys up chimneys to clean them. From now on you have to be over 21 to clean a chimney that way.
1878 - Salvation Army founded by Rev William Booth
1879 - Britain and France take control of Egypt and Suez Canal
1880 - William Gladstone becomes Prime Minister of Britain
1887 - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle writes first Shelock Holmes book
1888 - The Football League was founded
1890 - The first electric underground trains run
1891 - Death of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson
1892 - British Labour Party formed
1899/1902 - The Boer War
1901 - Death of Queen Victoria
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