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1750
Britain largest slave trading nation
1807
Slave trade abolished in Britain
1830
Liverpool to Manchester railway opened
1832
Reform act gave vote to more property owning men
1833
Slavery in British Empire forbidden
1846
Blight destroyed entire Irish potato crops
1 mil starved
2 mil migrate
1847-48
Over 300,000 Irish migrants arrive in Liverpool
1850
Karl Marx migrated to England
1880-90
Over 100,000 Jewish refugees migrate to Britain
Fleeing Russian Empire persecution
1888
Jack the Ripper murders
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