English history

• Spinning Jenny


  Invented in 1764, revolutionizing textile production
• Arkwright's water frame


  Introduced in 1769, improved textile manufacturing
• Rotary motion to steam engine

  Innovated in 1781, enhancing steam engine efficiency
• William Pitt as Prime Minister


  Appointed in 1783 after winning the election in 1784
• Commutation and Hovering Act

  Enacted in 1784, affecting transportation and customs
• East India Act


  Legislation in 1784 impacting British control in India
• Treasury Commission of Audit


  1785
• Reduced duties on items such as brandy and raised indirect taxes

  1785-87
• Pitt's sinking fund


  Introduced in 1786 to manage national debt
• Anglo-French trade treaty


  Signed by Pitt in 1786 to regulate trade relations
• Consolidated Fund Act, Central Stationary office


  1787
• Eden Treaty


  1787
• Pitt tries to pass bill to limit power of the Regency (would have been passed if GIII hadn't have recovered)


  1788
• French Revolution begins


  Commenced in Paris in 1789, causing unrest in Britain
• Power loom invention


  Innovated in 1789, transforming textile manufacturing
• Edmund Burke's 'Reflections of the Revolution in France'


  Published in 1790, criticizing the French revolutionaries
• Tom Paine's 'The Rights of Man'


  Published in 1791, supporting the French Revolution
• Order against Seditious Writings

  Issued in 1792 to control subversive publications
• British involvement in French Revolutionary Wars

  Began in 1793, impacting European conflicts
• Catholics right to vote

  1793
• Habeas Corpus suspension


  Enforced in 1794, restricting civil liberties
• Treasonable Practices Act


  Enacted in 1795 to curb dissent and rebellion
• Seditious Meetings Act


  1795
• Speenhamland System


  Implemented in 1795 to address poverty and wages
• Irish Rebellion led by Wolfe Tone


  Occurred in 1798, aiming for Irish independence
• Introduction of income tax


  Implemented in 1798 as a wartime financial measure
• Combination Acts


  Introduced in 1799 to suppress worker unions
• Corresponding societies and Societies of United Irishmen banned

  1799
• Act of Union with Ireland

  Passed in 1800, merging Irish and British parliaments
• Catholic emancipation refused


  first in 1801 (Pitt) then in 1807 (Grenville)
• First official census puts population of Great Britain and Ireland at over 15 million


  1801
• Enclosure accelerates


  1801
• Nelson's victory at Trafalgar

  Achieved in 1805, securing British naval dominance
• Death of William Pitt


  Occurred in 1806, impacting British politics
• Abolition of slave trade


  Achieved in 1807 through Wilberforce's campaign
• Orders of Council


  Enacted in 1807 against Napoleon's trade policies
• Prince of Wales as Regent

  Appointed in 1811 due to George III's illness
• Luddite riots


  Occurred from 1811-1817, reflecting worker discontent
• Lord Liverpool becomes PM


  1812
• Wellington's victory at Waterloo


  In 1815, marking the end of Napoleonic Wars