Events and Index

EVENTS 1830-1859

1830 - formation of the Conservative Party
1830 - end of reign of George IV. Wlliam IV King
1831 - invention of the friction match
1832 - Great Reform Act
1832 - formation of the Liberal Party
1832 - invention of the electric dynamo by Faraday
1832 - cholera epidemic
1833 - slavery abolished throughout English colonies
1834 - Tolpuddle Martyrs sentenced to transportation
1835 - Wesleyan Methodist Association founded
1835 - invention of the relover by Samuel Colt
1836 - Tolpuddle Martyrs pardoned
1836 - marriage in dissenting chapels legalised
1836 - General Register Office established
1836 - invention of the screw propeller
1837 - invention of the telegraph
1837 - end of reign of William IV. Victoria now Queen
1838 - Public Record Office (PRO) established by statute
1838 - first steam crossing of the Atlantic
1839 - vulcanisation of rubber developed by C Goodyear
1840 - reform of the postal service. First Postage Stamps issued
1840 - first screw propellor driven Royal Navy ship
1840 - Britain annexes New Zealand
1841 - first national census taken
1841 - Robert Peel becomes Prime Minister
1842 - Afghan revolt
1842 - Income Tax reintroduced
1842 - first use of ether as anesthetic
1843 - invention of Christmas cards
1844 - Mines Act prohibits use of women and boys in mines
1845 - invention of pneumatic tyre
1846 - "potato famine" in Ireland
1847 - mass emigration from Ireland
1848 - uprising in Ireland by the Youth of Ireland movement
1849 - Wesleyan Reform Union founded
1849 - cholera epidemic
1850 - invention of refrigerator
1851 - Great Exhibition
1851 - 1851 national census
1852 - Second Burmese War
1853 - smallpox vaccination becomes compulsory
1853 (about) - end of transportation of criminals to Australia
1854 - Britain and France declare war on Russia. Start of Crimean War.
1854 - Seige of Sebastopol / Battle of Balaclava / Charge of the Light Brigade
1855 - first military use of the Field Telegraph
1855 - invention of the safety match
1856 - end of Crimean War
1857 - United Methodist Free Churches founded
1857 - Indian Mutiny / loss of Cawnpore / capture of Delhi / relief of Lucknow
1858 - end of Indian Mutiny
1858 - East India Company wound up. India transferred to control of the Crown
1859 - first oil well sunk (Pennsylvania)
1859 - Charles Darwin publishes The Origin of Species