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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1832 | - 1832: Electoral Registers introduced
- 1832: Electric telegraph invented by Morse
- 7 Jun 1832: Reform Bill passed – Representation of the People Act
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| 2 | 1833 | - Jan 1833: Britain invades the Falkland Islands
- 29 Aug 1833: Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9
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| 3 | 1834 | - 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
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| 4 | 1835 | - 1835: Christmas becomes a national holiday
- 1835: First railway boom period starts in Britain – construction of Great Western Railway
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| 5 | 1836 | - 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
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| 6 | 1837 | - 1837: Pitman introduces his shorthand system
- 1837: 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
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| 7 | 1838 | - 28 Jun 1838: Coronation of Queen Victoria at Westminster Abbey
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1832 - 1838 (6 years)
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