Porteous Riots in Edinburgh

1736

War with Spain (Jenkins' Ear War)

Lord Wilmington (Whig). 1742-43.

The Place Bill passed, limiting the number
of offices to be held by members of Parlia-
ment

9-9

Napoleon issues his Berlin Decrees.

Trade.

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1806

Slave 1807

Act passed for the Abolition of the Slave)

Duke of Portland Whig). 1807-1809.

The Peninsular War begins

Battles of Roliça and Vimiero (Portugal).

Convention of Cintra (Portugal)

1800

1801

1801

1802

1803

1805

Battle of Busaco (Spain).

Wellington storms Badajos (Spain).

Perceval is assassinated

Lord Liverpool (Tory). 1812-1827.

Battle of Salamanca (Spain)
Vittoria (Spain)

1813

Battles of Orthez (France) and Toulouse) 1814

(France)

First Peace of Paris

Abdication of Napoleon

Congress of Vienna (Austria).

Battle of Waterloo (Belgium).

1815

The Holy Alliance.

1832, passed

British Dominions passed

New Poor Law Act passed

Lord Melbourne (Whig). 1834.

Act for the Emancipation of Slaves in all the 1833

Sir Robert Peel (Conservative). 1834.

Marriage Act passed'

Tithe Commutation Bill passed

Repeal of the Corn Laws

1846

Lord John Russell (Liberal). 1846-1852. (Lord

Palmerston is Foreign Secretary.)

The Third French Revolution.

Great Chartist Demonstration in London.

Rebellion of the "Young Ireland Party" in)
Ireland