One million people in Britain, out of a population of 20 million, can vote
1819
Peterloo
1830
Revolution in France
1832
The Great Reform Act gives most middle class men the right to vote
1833
Slavery abolished
1834
Grand National Consolidated Trade Union set up with 800,000 members
1815
First Chartist petition
Rebecca riots (1839-43)
1844
Cooperative Movement starts in Rochdale where workers jointly buy goods to sell at lower prices and share the profits
1847
Factory Act limits women and children to working a maximum of 10 hours a day
1848
Last Chartist petition
1867
Second Reform Act gives vote to most working class men in the towns
1870
Married Women's Property Act allows women to keep up to £200 of their own earnings (before this any money belonging to a married woman went to her husband)
Women allowed to vote in School Board elections
1872
Secret Ballot Act
1882
Second Married Women’s Property Act
1884
Third Reform Act gives vote to most working class men in rural areas
1888
Match girls’ strike results in unskilled workers winning improved working conditions
Women allowed to vote in local council elections
1889
Dock strike
1893
Third Married Women's Property Act gives married women legal control of all property they own at marriage and all property they earn or inherit after marriage
1903
Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) formed
1913
Emmeline Pankhurst arrested and imprisoned (one of several times)
Emily Wilding Davison killed at the Epsom Derby
1918
Women over the age of thirty get the right to vote
1928
Women over the age of 21 get the right to vote (the same as men)