The Great Reform Act (In Our Time)
1832 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Great Reform Act of 1832. The Act redrew the map of British politics in the wake of the Industrial Revolution and is a landmark in British political history.
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1832
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa (1831)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Treaty of Waitangi signed (1840)