Reform of the British army (Cardwell)
1868–1874 · Event
Edward Cardwell abolishes purchase of officer commissions, shortens enlistment, modernises British army for industrial-era warfare.
On these timelines: England, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from England
- Norman Conquest of England (1066)
- Magna Carta (1215)
- English Civil War (1642)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Glorious Revolution (1688)
- English Bill of Rights (1689)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
Around 1868
- Meiji Restoration (1868)
- German unification (1871)
- On the Origin of Species (1859)
- American Civil War (1861)
- Pasteur develops germ theory of disease (1861)
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- Presidency of Abraham Lincoln (1861)
- Vladimir Lenin (1870)
- Founding of the German Empire (1871)
- British Raj (1858)