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| 1 | 1820 | - 1820—1820: Cato Street Conspiracy ? plot to assissinate British cabinet
- 1820—1820: Abolition of the Spanish Inquisition
- 29 January 1820—29 January 1820: Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent
- 1 August 1820—1 August 1820: Regent's Canal in London opens
- 17 August 1820—17 August 1820: Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so George IV can divorce her ?
George tries to secure a Bill of Pains and Penalties against her ? Caroline is virtually acquitted
because bill passed by such a small majority of Lords
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| 2 | 1821 | - 1821—1821: Faraday publishes 'Principles of electro-magnetic rotation'
- 1821—1821: Constable paints 'The Hay Wain'
- 5 May 1821—5 May 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena
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| 3 | 1822 | - 14 June 1822—14 June 1822: Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society
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| 4 | 1823 | - 1823—1823: New laws concerning marriage by license ? 'very troublesome' according to some the Act was repealed all in a hurry at the beginning of the next session
- 1823—1823: Peel begins penal reforms ? death penalty abolished for over 100 crimes
- 1823—1823: Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School
- 1823—1823: Rubberised waterproof material produced by MacIntosh
- 2 December 1823—2 December 1823: US President James Monroe delivers a speech establishing American neutrality in
future European conflicts (the 'Monroe Doctrine')
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| 5 | 1824 | - 1824—1824: RSPCA established
- 1824—1824: Portland cement patented
- 4 March 1824—4 March 1824: Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) founded (called the 'National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck' until 1854)
- 10 May 1824—10 May 1824: National Gallery in London opens to the public
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| 6 | 1825 | - 27 September 1825—27 September 1825: Stockton to Darlington Railway opens ? world's first service of locomotive-hauled passenger trains
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| 7 | 1827 | - 1827—1827: Ohm's Law published
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| 8 | 1828 | - 25 October 1828—25 October 1828: St Katharine Docks in London opened (designed by Thomas Telford)
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| 9 | 1829 | - 1829—1829: London Metropolitan Police Force formed, nicknamed 'Bobbies' after Sir Robert Peel
- 1829—1829: Louis Braille invents his system of finger-reading for the blind
- 10 June 1829—10 June 1829: First Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race
- 6 October 1829—6 October 1829: George Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill trials (it was the only one to
complete the trial!)
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| 10 | 1830 | - 1830—1830: Uprisings and agitation across Europe: the Netherlands are split into Holland and
Belgium
- July 1830—July 1830: Revolution in France, fall of Charles X and the Bourbons ? Louis Philippe (the
Citizen King) on the throne
- 15 September 1830—15 September 1830: George Stephenson's Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened by the Duke of
Wellington ? first mail carried by rail, and first death on the railway as William Huskisson, a
leading politician, is run over!
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| 11 | 1831 | - 1831—1831: A list of all parish registers dating prior to 1813 compiled
- 1 June 1831—1 June 1831: James Clark Ross discovers the North Magnetic Pole
- 1 August 1831—1 August 1831: 'New' London Bridge opens (replaced 1973) ? old bridge (which had existed for over 600 years) then demolished
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| 12 | 1832 | - 1832—1832: Electoral Registers introduced
- 1832—1832: Electric telegraph invented by Morse
- 7 June 1832—7 June 1832: Reform Bill passed ? Representation of the People Act
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| 13 | 1833 | - January 1833—January 1833: Britain invades the Falkland Islands
- 29 August 1833—29 August 1833: Factory Act forbids employment of children below age of 9
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| 14 | 1834 | - 1834—1834: Babbage invents forerunner of the computer
- 18 March 1834—18 March 1834: 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' transported (to Australia) for Trades Union activities
- 1 May 1834—1 May 1834: Slavery abolished in British possessions
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| 15 | 1835 | - 1835—1835: Christmas becomes a national holiday
- 1835—1835: First railway boom period starts in Britain construction of Great Western Railway
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| 16 | 1836 | - 1836—1836: First Potato famine in Ireland
- 30 January 1836—30 January 1836: Telford's Menai Straits Bridge opened ? considered the world's first modern suspension bridge
- 25 February 1836—25 February 1836: Samuel Colt patented the 'revolver'
- 6 March 1836—6 March 1836: The Alamo falls to Mexican troops - death of Davy Crockett
- July 1836—July 1836: Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
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1820 - 1836 (16 years) 
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