1700-1900 key dates

• 1832


  reform act - gave more men the right to vote
• 1829


  Catholic emancipation act - gave catholics almost the same civil rights as protestants
• 1858


  Jews could become MP's
• 1807


  Britain's slave trade is abolished
• 1833


  Slavery in the British empire is forbidden
• 1750-1850


  Industrial revolution
• by 1820


  canal network that linked industrial towns and britains ports
• 1830


  liverpool to manchester railway opened
• 1858


  British gov took over control from India of the East India Company
• 1885


  European powers began to colonise African countries
• 1845


  Great (potato) famine
• by 1750


  Britian was the largest participant in the transatlantic slave trade
• 1871


  Jews could take up fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge
• 1786


  'Committee for the Relief of the Black Poor' set up
• 1851


  German migrant PAUL REUTER set up Reuter's News Agency - reported accurate stories of international importance
• 1894


  Marks and Spencer opened by russian jewish man
• 1787


  the society for the abolition of the slave trade - educated British public about horrors of slavery
• 1822


  London Jewish free school opened
• 1895


  The Jewish Lads' Brigade founded - aimed to instil British values in Jewish boys