Robert Peel's second premiership
1841–1846 · Event
Peel repeals the Corn Laws in the teeth of the Irish famine and splits his party for a generation.
On these timelines: UK: Prime Ministers, England, United Kingdom (combined), Master, The Irish Famine
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Around 1841
- Revolutions of 1848 (1848)
- Opium Wars (1839)
- Taiping Rebellion (1851)
- Great Famine of Ireland (1845)
- Communist Manifesto (1848)
- Reign of Victoria (1837)
- Victorian era (1837)
- First public demonstration of surgical anaesthesia (1846)
- Abolition of slavery in British Empire (1833)
- Revolutions of 1848 in Germany (1848)