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The Housemans of Nidderdale
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 1808 - 1863 (55 years) Submit Photo / Document
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| 1 | 1812 | - 11 May 1812—11 May 1812: Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval, assassinated ? shot as he entered the House of Commons by a bankrupt Liverpool broker, John Bellingham, who was subsequently hanged
- 18 June 1812—18 June 1812: Start of American 'War of 1812' (to 1814) against England and Canada
- October 1812—October 1812: Napoleon retreats from Moscow with catastrophic losses
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| 2 | 1813 | - 1813—1813: Ireland: First recorded '12th of July' sectarian riots in Belfast
- 1813—1813: Jane Austen wrote 'Pride and Prejudice'
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| 3 | 1814 | - 1 January 1814—1 January 1814: Invasion of France by Allies
- 6 April 1814—6 April 1814: Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba
- 13 August 1814—13 August 1814: Convention of London signed, a treaty between the UK and the Dutch
- 24 August 1814—24 August 1814: The British burn the White House
- 29 November 1814—29 November 1814: 'The Times' first printed by a 'mechanical apparatus' (at 1100 sheets per hour)
- 24 December 1814—24 December 1814: Treaty of Ghent signed ending the 1812 war between Britain and the US
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| 4 | 1815 | - 1815—1815: Trial by Jury established in Scotland
- 1815—1815: Davy develops the safety lamp for miners
- 18 June 1815—18 June 1815: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
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| 5 | 1816 | - 1816—1816: Income tax abolished
- 1816—1816: For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially
below their face value ? the first official 'token' coinage
- 1816—1816: Climate: the 'year without a summer' ? followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain 'Tambora in Indonesia the previous year the biggest volcanic explosion in 10000 years
- 1816—1816: Large scale emigration to North America
- 1816—1816: Trans-Atlantic packet service begins
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| 6 | 1817 | - 1817—1817: March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended
- 1817—1817: Constable painted 'Flatford Mill'
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| 7 | 1818 | - 1818—1818: Manchester cotton spinners' strike
- 20 October 1818—20 October 1818: 'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom
which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its
length
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