Rebecca Riots
1839–1843 · Event
Tenant farmers in disguise destroy toll-gates across south-west Wales in protest at rural poverty.
On these timelines: Wales, Master, United Kingdom (combined)
More from Wales
- Death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd (1282)
- National Assembly for Wales established (1999)
- Edward I's conquest of Wales (1277)
- Gruffudd ap Llywelyn unites Wales (1055)
- Owain Glyndŵr's revolt (1400)
- Aneurin Bevan (1897)
- Rise of the South Wales coalfield (1850)
- Senedd gains law-making powers (2011)
Around 1839
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Industrial Revolution ends (1840)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Irish Potato Famine (1845)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)