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Mary Ann BARKE
Female Abt 1819 - 1859


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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  • Poor Relief Act or "Act of Settlement" gave JPs the power to return any wandering poor to the parish of origin (repealed 1834)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 1819 
  • Primitive bicycle, the Dandy Horse, becomes popular
  • Britain returns to gold standard
  • Singapore founded by Sir Stamford Raffles
  • May 1819: SS "Savannah" first steamship to cross Atlantic, reaching Liverpool 20 June 1819 (26 days, mostly under sail)
  • 16 Aug 1819: Peterloo Massacre at Manchester – a large, orderly group of 60,000 meets at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester – demand Parliamentary Reform – mounted troops charge on the meeting, killing 11 people and and maiming many others
3 1820 
  • Cato Street Conspiracy – plot to assissinate British cabinet
  • Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition
  • 29 Jan 1820: Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent
  • 1 Aug 1820: Regent's Canal in London opens
  • 17 Aug 1820: Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her – George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her – Caroline is virtually acquitted because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords
4 1821 
  • Faraday publishes "Principles of electro-magnetic rotation"
  • Constable paints "The Hay Wain"
  • 5 May 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena
5 1822 
  • 14 Jun 1822: Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society
6 1823 
  • New laws concerning marriage by licence – 'very troublesome' according to some: "the Act was repealed, all in a hurry, at the beginning of the next session"
  • Peel begins penal reforms death penalty abolished for over 100 crimes
  • Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School
  • Rubberised waterproof material produced by MacIntosh
  • 2 Dec 1823: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts (the 'Monroe Doctrine')
7 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
8 1825 
  • 27 Sep 1825: Stockton to Darlington Railway opens – world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains
9 1827 
  • Ohm's Law published
10 1828 
  • 25 Oct 1828: St Katharine Docks in London opened (designed by Thomas Telford)
11 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!)
12 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!
13 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
14 1832 
  • Electoral Registers introduced
  • Electric telegraph invented by Morse
  • 7 Jun 1832: Reform Bill passed – Representation of the People Act
15 1833 
  • Jan 1833: Britain invades the Falkland Islands
  • 29 Aug 1833: Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9
16 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
17 1835 
  • Christmas becomes a national holiday
  • First railway boom period starts in Britain – construction of Great Western Railway
18 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
19 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
20 1838 
  • 28 Jun 1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
21 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
22 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
23 1841 
  • Thomas Cook starts package tours
  • 10 Feb 1841: Penny Red replaces Penny Black postage stamp
  • 6 Jun 1841: June 6: First full census in Britain in which all names were recorded (Population 18.5M)
24 1842 
  • Income Tax reintroduced in Britain
  • 30 Mar 1842: Ether used as an anaesthetic for the first time (by Dr Crawford Long in America)
  • 29 Aug 1842: Treaty of Nanking – End of First Opium War – Britain gains Hong Kong
25 1843 
  • First Christmas card in England
  • 27 May 1843: The Great Hall of Euston station opened in London
  • 19 Jul 1843: Brunel's 'Great Britain' launched
26 1844 
  • 6 Jun 1844: YMCA founded in London by Sir George Williams
27 1845 
  • Tarmac laid for first time (in Nottingham)
  • 17 Mar 1845: The rubber band patented by Stephen Perry
28 1846 
  • 10 Sep 1846: The sewing machine is patented by Elias Howe
29 1847 
  • US Mormons make Salt Lake City their centre
  • Jan 1847: An anaesthetic used for the first time in England (James Simpson used ether to numb the pain of labour)
30 1848 
  • First commercial production of chewing gum
  • 24 Jan 1848: Gold found at Sutter's Mill, California – starts the California gold rush
  • 11 Jul 1848: Waterloo railway station in London opens
31 1849 
  • Florin (2 shilling coin) introduced as the first step to decimalisation – which finally occurred in 1971!
32 1851 
  • Gold discovered in Australia
  • 1 May 1851: Great exhibition of the works of industry of all nations ("Crystal Palace" exhibition) opened in Hyde Park
33 1852 
  • Tasmania ceases to be a convict settlement
  • Wells Fargo established in USA
34 1853 
  • Vaccination against smallpox made compulsory in Britain
35 1854 
  • Cigarettes introduced into Britain
  • 27 Mar 1854: Britain declares war on Russia (Crimean War)
  • 25 Oct 1854: Battle of Balaklava in Crimea (charge of the Light Brigade)
36 1856 
  • End of Crimean War
  • 29 Jan 1856: Victoria Cross created by Royal Warrant, backdated to 1854 to recognise acts during the Crimean War (first award ceremony 26 June 1857)
37 1857 
  • Work starts on the laying of the Transatlantic cable
38 1858 
  • 'The great stink' – smell of the River Thames forced Parliament to stop work
  • Royal Opera House opens in Covent Garden, London
39 1859 
  • Peaceful picketing legalised in Britain
  • 25 Apr 1859: Work started on building the Suez canal (opened 17 Nov 1869)
  • 4 May 1859: Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge opened at Saltash giving rail link between Devon and Cornwall
  • 24 Nov 1859: Charles Darwin publishes "The Origin of Species"
  

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