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LANCASTER PAMPHLETS
Chartism
John K. Walton
First published 1999
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2001.
1999 John K. Walton
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Chartism / John K. Walton.
p. cm. (Lancaster pamphlets)
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Chartism. I. Title II. Series.
HD8396.W35 1999
322.20941dc21
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Time Chart
1832 | Reform Act |
March 1834 | Transportation of Tolpuddle Martyrs |
July 1834 | Poor Law Amendment Act passed |
1835 | Formation of Working Mens Associations |
and Radical Associations begins |
June 1836 | Formation of London Working Mens |
Association |
January 1837 | Formation of East London Democratic |
Association |
April 1837 | Glasgow Cotton Spinners strike |
Refounding of Birmingham Political Union |
November 1837 | Northern Star begins to appear |
April 1838 | Great Northern Union formed at Leeds |
May 1838 | Peoples Charter and first National Petition |
published |
June 1838 | Northern Political Union formed at Newcastle |
September 1838 | Great meeting at Kersal Moor, Manchester |
February 1839 | General Convention of the Industrious Classes |
meets in London |
March 1839 | Anti-Corn Law League established |
May 1839 | Convention moves to Birmingham |
July 1839 | Bull Ring riots in Birmingham and arrests |
Convention returns to London |
Commons reject first National Petition |
September 1839 | Convention dissolved |
Proposed Sacred Month (general strike) |
abandoned |
November 1839 | Newport Rising and subsequent arrests |
January 1840 | Abortive plans for insurrection in Bradford |
and Sheffield |
FebruaryMarch 1840 | Trials of arrested Chartists |
July 1840 | National Charter Association set up |
April 1841 | National Association of the United |
Kingdom for Promoting the Political and |
Social Improvement of the People founded: |
the New Move and OConnors attack |
on it |
July 1841 | General Election held |
August 1841 | Peel takes office |
April 1842 | |
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