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Benjamin Rock Jackson

Male 1830 - Bef 1901  (< 70 years)


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   Date  Event(s)
1830 
  • 1830: William IV King of England 1830 - 1837
1832 
  • 1832: Introduction of Electroal Rolls
1833 
  • 1833: 2nd Factory Act - rohibited the employment of under nines in mills and further restricted the time over nines could work.
1834 
  • 1834: Abolition of the institution of slavery in the British Empire
  • 1834: Poor Law Ammendment Act - Radical changes to poor relief grouping parishes into Poor Law Unions.
1835 
  • 1835: Tithe Redemtion Act
1836 
  • 1836: Following the second French Revolution influx of French Immigrants
1837 
  • 1837: Victoria Queen of England 1837 - 1901
  • 1837: Civil registration of Births, Marriages & Deaths in England & Wales is introduced in the Septemper Quarter.
1838 
  • 1838: Rise of the Chartist Movement
1840 
  • 1840: New Zealand declared a Crown colony
10 1842 
  • 1842: Mines Act - No female was to be employed underground, no boy under 10 years old was to be employed underground.Parish apprentices between the ages of 10 and 18 could continue to work in the mines. There were no clauses relating to hours of work, and inspection could only take place on the basis of checking the 'condition of the workers'. Ironically, many women were annoyed that they could no longer earn the much needed money
11 1845 
  • 1845: Beginning of the Irish Potato Famine
12 1846 
  • 1846: After the approval of 273 new lines the Railway System rapidly expands
13 1850 
  • 1850: Factories Act Extended - restricted all women and young people to no more than ten-and-a-half hours work a day.
14 1856 
  • 1856: Crimean War begins. Ends 1856
15 1857 
  • 1857: Divorce becomes obtainable through the civil courts in England & Wales (Matrimonial Causes Act)
16 1858 
  • 1858: Start of the British Raj as India is delclared a Crown Colony
17 1861 
  • 1861: - 1865 American civil war between the emancipationist North and the slaveowning South.
18 1865 
  • 1865: After the defeat of the south the thirteenth amendment passed effectively abolishing slavery in the USA.
19 1867 
  • 1867: Canada Becomes A Dominion
20 1872 
  • 1872: Public Health Act establishes urban & rural sanitary authorities.
21 1873 
  • 1873: Return of Owners of Land is made listing owners of more than 1 acre in Britain & Ireland.
22 1875 
  • 1875: Civil registration of Births and Deaths now a legal obligation.
23 1879 
  • 1879: Zulu War
24 1882 
  • 1882: Married Women's Property Act
25 1889 
  • 1889: Boer War begins. Ends 1902
26 1890 
  • 1890: Education Act: schooling compulsory for 5-10 year olds
27 1894 
  • 1894: Third Reform Bill Votes for Agricultural Workers