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   Date  Event(s)
1 1662 
  • Poor Relief Act or "Act of Settlement" gave JPs the power to return any wandering poor to the parish of origin (repealed 1834)
2 1824 
  • RSPCA established
  • Portland cement patented
  • 4 Mar 1824: Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) founded (called the "National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck" until 1854)
  • 10 May 1824: National Gallery in London opens to the public
3 1825 
  • 27 Sep 1825: Stockton to Darlington Railway opens – world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains
4 1827 
  • Ohm's Law published
5 1828 
  • 25 Oct 1828: St Katharine Docks in London opened (designed by Thomas Telford)
6 1829 
  • London Metropolitan Police Force formed, nicknamed "Bobbies" after Sir Robert Peel
  • Louis Braille invents his sytem of finger-reading for the blind
  • 10 Jun 1829: First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race
  • 6 Oct 1829: George Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials (it was the only one to complete the trial!)
7 1830 
  • Uprisings and agitation across Europe: the Netherlands are split into Holland and Belgium
  • Jul 1830: Revolution in France, fall of Charles X and the Bourbons Louis Philippe (the Citizen King) on the throne
  • 15 Sep 1830: George Stephenson's Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened by the Duke of Wellington first mail carried by rail, and first death on the railway as William Huskisson, a leading politician, is run over!
8 1831 
  • A list of all parish registers dating prior to 1813 compiled
  • 1 Jun 1831: James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
  • 1 Aug 1831: 'New' London Bridge opens (replaced 1973) – old bridge (which had existed for over 600 years) then demolished
9 1832 
  • Electoral Registers introduced
  • Electric telegraph invented by Morse
  • 7 Jun 1832: Reform Bill passed – Representation of the People Act
10 1833 
  • Jan 1833: Britain invades the Falkland Islands
  • 29 Aug 1833: Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9
11 1834 
  • Babbage invents forerunner of the computer
  • 18 Mar 1834: 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' transported (to Australia) for Trades Union activities
  • 1 May 1834: Slavery abolished in British possessions
12 1835 
  • Christmas becomes a national holiday
  • First railway boom period starts in Britain – construction of Great Western Railway
13 1836 
  • First Potato famine in Ireland
  • 30 Jan 1836: Telford's Menai Straits Bridge opened - considered the world's first modern suspension bridge
  • 25 Feb 1836: Samuel Colt patented the 'revolver'
  • 6 Mar 1836: The Alamo falls to Mexican troops – death of Davy Crockett
  • Jul 1836: Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
14 1837 
  • Pitman introduces his shorthand system
  • P&O Founded
  • 20 Jun 1837: William IV dies – accession of Queen Victoria (to 1901)
  • 1 Jul 1837: Compulsory registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales – Registration Districts were formed covering several parishes; initially they had the same boundaries as the Poor Law boundaries set up in 1834
  • 13 Jul 1837: Queen Victoria moves into the first Buckingham Palace
  • 20 Jul 1837: Euston Railway station opens – first in London
15 1838 
  • 28 Jun 1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
16 1839 
  • First Opium War between Britain and China (to 1842) – Britain captures Hong Kong
  • Scottish blacksmith Kirkpatrick MacMillan refines the primitive bicycle, adding a mechanical crank drive to the rear wheel, thus creating the first true "bicycle" in the modern sense
  • Charles Goodyear invented vulcanized rubber
17 1840 
  • Population Act relating to taking of censuses in Britain
  • Last convicts landed in NSW (some say 1842 or 1849, but these probably landed elsewhere)
  • 10 Jan 1840: Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally
  

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