Thomas Hardy arrested

Habeas Corpus suspended

End of the Napoleonic Wars

One million people in Britain, out of a population of 20 million, can vote

The Great Reform Act gives most middle class men the right to vote

Grand National Consolidated Trade Union set up with 800,000 members

First Chartist petition

Rebecca riots (1839-43)

Cooperative Movement starts in Rochdale where workers jointly buy goods to sell at lower prices and share the profits

Factory Act limits women and children to working a maximum of 10 hours a day

Second Reform Act gives vote to most working class men in the towns

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

Secret Ballot Act

Second Married Women’s Property Act

Third Reform Act gives vote to most working class men in rural areas

Match girls’ strike results in unskilled workers winning improved working conditions

Women allowed to vote in local council elections

Dock strike

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

Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) formed

Emmeline Pankhurst arrested and imprisoned (one of several times)

Emily Wilding Davison killed at the Epsom Derby

Women over the age of thirty get the right to vote

Women over the age of 21 get the right to vote (the same as men)