Peterloo Massacre
1819 · Event
Yeomanry charge a pro-reform meeting at St Peter's Field, Manchester; 18 dead, hundreds injured; galvanises reform movement.
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- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Battle of Waterloo (British perspective) (1815)