A level History: Challenge and transformation Britain 1851-1964

1832

The Great reform act

1846

• Irish Potato famine

• Repeal of the corn laws

1851

• The great exhibition

1852

• Aberdeen becomes PM

1854

• Start of the Crimean war

1855

• Palmerstone becomes PM

1856

• End of the Crimean war

1858

• IRB is founded

1859

• The Liberal party is founded and form a government (10th June)

1861

• American civil war starts

1865

• End of American civil war

• The reform league is founded

1866

• Gladstone PM

• The liberal reform bill fails

1867

• Second reform act passed by Derby (C)

• Fenian disturbances

1868

• Disraeli becomes PM

• Conservatives lose general election

• Gladstone becomes PM

1869

• Female ratepayers can vote

• Irish land act

1870

• Fortser’s education act

• Civil service jobs become based on exam and open to all

• Married women’s property act

• Isaac Butts founds the HGA(Home government association)

1871

• Trade Union act

• Criminal amendment act

1872

• Public health act

• Scottish education act

• Licensing act

1873

• Start of agricultural and industrial depression

• Home rule league is founded

1874

• Disraeli becomes PM

1875

• Conspiracy and protection of property act

• Public health act

• The employers and workmen act

• Artisans dwelling act

1876

• Sandman’s education act

• Merchant seamen’s act

1879

• Irish land league founded, Charles Parnell is the leader

1880

• Gladstone comes PM

1881

• Second land act

• Coercion act

• Fair trade league formed

1882

• The crofter’s war

• Arrears act

• Phoenix park murders

1885

• Cecil becomes PM

• Land purchase act

• Working class dwellings act

1886

• Salisbury becomes PM

• First home rule bill is defeated

• Divisions within the Liberal party

1887

• The crimes act

1888

• Emergence of new liberalism

• Local government act

1889

• Booth’s first survey

• Spread of new unionism

1890

• Shop hours act

1891

• Factory and workshops act

• Public health act

• Charles Parnell dies

1892

• Gladstone becomes PM

• Free elementary education

• Public libraries act

• Allotments and small holdings act

1893

• Emergence of the Labour Party

• Second home rule bill defeated

1894

• Roseberry becomes PM

• Local government act

1895

• Salisbury becomes PM

1896

• End of the depression

• Agricultural ratings act

1897

• Suffragist formed

• Workman’s compensation act

1898

• Campbell-bannerman becomes Liberal leader

1899

• Sale of food and drugs act

1901

• Booth and rowntree report

1902

• Balfour becomes PM

• Wheat tariffs are introduced

• Small holdings act

• Balfour’s education act

1903

• Lib-Lab pact

• Suffragettes formed

• Wyndham’s land act

1905

• Sinn Fein founded

1906

• Liberal win General election

• Trade disputes act

• Taff Vale overturned

• Tariff reform split the cabinet

• Workmen’s compensation act

1907

• Qualification of women act

1908

• Asquith becomes PM

• Children’s charter

• Old age pensions

1909

• People’s budget

• Start of constitutional crisis

1910

• General elections

• People’s budget passed by the lords

• First labour exchange

1911

• More general elections

• parliament act

• National insurance act

1912

• Third home rule bill postponed by the lords

1913

• Cat and Mouse act

• Emily Davidson dies

1914

• Outbreak of ww1

• The Curragh mutiny

• Home rule bill suspended

• DORA measures introduced

1915

• Asquith forms a war coalition

• Extension of unemployment insurance

1916

• Lloyd George becomes PM of a Con led coalition

• Conscription introduced

• Easter rising

1918

• End of WW1

• Representation of the peoples act

• Fisher’s education act

• John Redmond dies

• INP collapses

1919

• Sex disqualifications act

• Extension of unemployment insurance

• Health insurance act

• Addison housing act

• Deceleration of the Irish republic

1920

• Oxford awards full degrees to women

• Unemployment act

• Government of Ireland act

1921

• Coal mines are taken out of state control

• Unemployed workers dependant act

• Anglo-Irish treaty creates free state

1922

• Bonar law becomes PM

• BBC starts radio broadcasting

• Irish civil war starts

• Michael Collins assassinated

1923

• Baldwin becomes PM

• MacDonald becomes PM

• Matrimonial causes act

• Unemployment insurance act

• Irish civil war ends

1924

• Wheatleys housing

• Baldwin becomes PM

1925

• Return to the gold standard

• Contributory pensions act

1926

• General strike

• Law of property act

• BBC gain a monopoly and become a national service

• Hadow report

1927

• Unemployment insurance act

1928

• Equal franchise act

1929

• Electoral reform bill

• MacDonald becomes PM Free elementary

• Wall Street crash

• End to the poor law

1930

• Greenwood’s housing act

• Start of the National gov

• Family association started

• Unemployed insurance act

1931

• Brought of the gold standard

1932

• BUF founded

• Import duties act

• DeValera becomes Irish PM

1933

• Peak unemployment

1934

• Incitement to disaffection

• Special areas act

• Unemployed insurance act

1935

• Belfast riots

• End of the national government

1936

• Abdication of Edward 8

1937

• Irish free state declares independence

1939

• Outbreak of ww2

• Emergency powers act

1940

• Churchill becomes PM

• Evacuation of Dunkirk

• Churchill offers a united Ireland

1941

• America joins the war post pearl harbour

• Churchill offers a united Ireland again

1942

• El Alamein defeat

• Beveridge report

• Star of the battle of the Atlantic

1943

• Hitler’s attack on Russia fails

• Tehran conference

1944

• Butler education act

1945

• Yalta conference

• End of WW2

• Atlee becomes PM

• Family allowance act

1946

• New towns act

• National insurance act

• NHS act

1948

• Nationality act

• NHS begins

• The empire windrush

• National assistance act

1949

• Eire becomes a republic

1951

• Churchill becomes PM

• Rationing ends

• Post war boom

1955

• Eden becomes PM

1956

• Suez crisis

1957

• MacMillan becomes PM

1958

• CND formed

1961

• MacMillan applies to the EEC

1962

• Commonwealth immigrants act

1963

• Profumo affair

• McMillan resigns

• EEC reject application

1964

• Wilson becomes PM

• Riots in Belfast

• Campaign for social justice formed