Welcome to the
Leicestershire and Rutland
19th Century Timeline!
Leicestershire and Rutland
19th Century Timeline!
A date, a name, a place of birth means something but the flesh on the bones of your ancestors needs to be built up with stories, events, in fact anything that could possibly have affected that person in their daily lives.
Did they fight for their country? Was there a food shortage? What books could they have read? Where were they buried? Did they go to Church?
How did Leicestershire develop through the last 300 hundred years? How it developed affected the lives of any ancestors of yours that were born, lived or moved here to work in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Check out the 20th 18th and 17th century timelines that you can help build!
Did they fight for their country? Was there a food shortage? What books could they have read? Where were they buried? Did they go to Church?
How did Leicestershire develop through the last 300 hundred years? How it developed affected the lives of any ancestors of yours that were born, lived or moved here to work in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Check out the 20th 18th and 17th century timelines that you can help build!
- 1800 First shipment of the Elgin Marbles (Parthenon Frieze) to the British Museum from Athens
- 1800 Company of Surgeons becomes the Royal College of Surgeons
- 1801 The Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Ireland merge to form the United Kingdom.
- 1801 Pitt resigns, Addington becomes Prime Minister
- 1801 Madras brought under British Rule
- 1801 British defeat French Army at Aboukir, Egypt
- 1801 Nelson wins Battle of Copenhagen (Naval)
- 1801 First Census of Britain in June
- 1802 Treaty Of Amiens temporarily ends War with France
- 1802 Second Mahratta War begins in India
- 1802 First Factory Act passed to reform work practices
- 1803 First publication of Debrett's Peerage
- 1803 Napoleonic Wars 1803 - 1815
- 1803 War with France resumes, around 10,000 detained in France
- 1804 First steam locomotive begins operation
- 1804 Pitt becomes Prime Minister again until 1805
- 1805 First Trooping of the Colour ceremony
- 1806 Death of William Pitt and Charles James Fox
- 1807 Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal. (Abolition)
- 1808 The pigtail in male hairstyles disappears
- 1809 Spencer Perceval becomes Prime Minister
- 1809 Dartmoor Prison opens, at first for French POW's
- 1810 Luddites active in industrial districts
- 1810 Peninsular War - Wellington's Army digs in behind lines of Torres Vedras
- 1811 George III incapacitated by insanity, Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent
- 1811 Peninsular War continues
- 1811 First Women's County Cricket match
- 1812 War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom (3 years)
- 1813 Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
- 1814 Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.
- 1814 Treaty of Paris ends war with Napoleonic France
- 1815 Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.
- 1815 Battle of Waterloo
- 1816 Anglo-Nepalese War between Nepal (Gurkha Empire) and British Empire.
- 1817 Death of James Austen, Novelist
- 1817 Seditious Meetings Act passed, habeaus corpus suspended
- 1818 Mary Shelley writes Frankenstein
- 1818 Josiah Gimson born
- 1819 Bank of England resumes cash payments
- 1820
- 1821 Death of John Keats, Poet
- 1822 New Corn Laws passed
- 1823 Death of Edward Jenner, pioneer of vacination
- 1828 Wellington becomes Prime Minister
- 1829 Passing of the Catholic Emancipation Act
- 1829 Sir Robert Peel estabilishes the Metropolitan Police
- 1837 Civil Registration started in 1837
- 1838
- 1839
- 1840
- 1841
- 1842
- 1843 First burial at Leicester Cemetery (Welford Road)
- 1845 First Sikh War
- 1845 Death of Elizabeth Fry, Prison reformer
- 1846 End of first Sikh War
- 1853 Crimea War till 1856
- 1854 Britain and France entered the Crimean War
- 1856 End of Crimea War
- 1860 Launch of HMS Warrior, the first British iron clad warship
- 1865 November 26th - Today in 1865, Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" was first published in the US.
- 1866 Isle of Man gains home rule
- 1866 Last major outbreak of Cholera in England
- 1877 The land which Grace Road is built on was bought by Leicestershire County Cricket Club in 1877 from the then Duke of Rutland and spent the massive sum of £40,000 on developing a cricket club, athletic track and hotel
- 1880 Gladstone Prime Minister again.
- 1880 Death of George Eliot, Novelist in London born Warks
- 1880 Greenwich Mean Time established throughout country
- 1880 First Telephone directory in England issued
- 1881 Gladstone's Parliament passed the Land Act of 1881
- 1881 The Leicestershire Regiment was accordingly formed on 1 July 1881
- 1881 The Regimental Depot: Glen Parva Barracks, Saffron Lane, South Wigston. Opened in 1881
- 1881 Postal Orders introduced
- 1881 No Rent Manifesto published in Ireland October 21st
- 1882
- 1883 Married Women's Property Act becomes law
- 1883 Karl Marx dies in London
- 1883 Founding of The Fabian Society
- 1883 Treasure Island published by Robert Louis Stevenson
- 1883 Sudan Campaign : partial British withdrawal
- 1884 Sir Charles Parson develops the Steam Turbine
- 1885
- 1886 Gladstone Prime Minister again!
- 1887
- 1888 Jack the Ripper murders in East London
- 1888 County Councils established
- 1889 Women's Franchise League founded by Emmeline Pankhurst
- 1890 Housing of the Working Classes Act 1890
- 1891 First Electric Tramcars in Leeds
- 1891 Death of Thomas Cook, pioneer travel agent
- 1892 Gladstone's last term of being Prime Minister begins
- 1893 National Coal Miners strike
- 1894 Gladstone resigns, Earl of Rosebery becomes Prime Minister
- 1894 Estate Duty began (death duties) introduced in the Budget
- 1894 Opening of the Manchester Ship Canal
- 1894 Tower Bridge opens in London
- 1894 Parish, rural, and urban district councils est.
- 1894 Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope pub.
- 1895 Employers Lock-Out of Boot and Shoe Workers leads to march to Belgrave Grounds on 21st March
- 1896 Locomotive Act removes need for red flag to precede motor vehicles
- 1896 Conciliation Act provides for resolving Industrial disputes
- 1897 Bram Stoker publishes Dracula
- 1897 The Tate Gallery in London opens
- 1897 Foundation of the Royal Automobile Club
- 1897 Employers Liability Act makes employers responsible for safety in workplaces
- 1898 Kitchener completes conquest of the Sudan
- 1899 Second Boer War begins
- 1899 London County Council est.
- 1899 First *garden city* est. at Letchworth
- 1899 Elgar composes The Enigma Variations
- 1899 National Physical Laboratory founded
Have you a fact or event that could help the family history / local history researchers of Leicestershire and Rutland? If so, let me know at @LeicsAncestors