AQA GCSE History - Power and the People - Dates of all key events

Magna Carta signed

1215

Provisions of Oxford agreed

1258

Simon de Montfort's parliament

1265

Peasants' Revolt

1381

Pilgrimage of Grace

1536

English Civil War begins

1642

King Charles I executed

1649

Glorious Revolution (constitutional monarchy)

1688

Declaration of Independence

1776

Battle of Yorktown (America independent)

1781

Combination Act I (no trade unions allowed, repealed 1824)

1799

Abolition of the Slave Trade

1807

Peterloo massacre

1819

Combination Act II (trade unions legal but couldn't collectively bargain)

1825

Great Reform Act passed

1832

Abolition of slave ownership (comes into force a year later)

1833

Factory Act ('ten hour' Act)

1833

Tolpuddle Martyrs prosecuted (beginning of trade union movement; pardoned two years later)

1834

People's Charter

1838

Mines and Collieries Act (banned women and children working in mines)

1842

Corn Laws repealed (also Irish potato famine)

1846

Public Health Act (government takes responsibility for citizens' health for the first time)

1848

Married Women's Property Act (gave to women control of their own income)

1870

Contagious Diseases Acts repealed (they alllowed unfair examination of prostitutes for venereal disease)

1886

Match girls' strike

1888

Dockers' strike

1889

NUWSS set up

1897

WSPU set up

1903

Prisoners Act (Cat and Mouse Act)

1913

Some women could vote (had to be over 30 or own property)

1918

Government starts subsidising coal mining

1925

General strike

1926

Equal Opportunities Act (all women could vote)

1928

Nationality Act (Commonwealth immigrants had right to migrate & work in UK)

1948

Commonwealth Immigrants Act (only those with government-approved vouchers could migrate to UK)

1962

Equal Opportunities Commission established (as part of Sex Discrimination Act; Equal Pay Act 1970 also comes into force)

1975

Commission for Racial Equality set up

1976

Brixton riot

1981

Miners' strike

1984-5

Battle of Lewes (Simon de Montfort gains power)

1264

Battle of Evesham (SdM killed & mutilated)

1265

Newport Rising

1839