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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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