Key Dates of Power and the People

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1215
King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede
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1265
First time commons represented in House of Commons (by Simon de Montfort)
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1381
Lincolnshire Rising and Peasant's Revolt
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1536
Pilgrimage of Grace
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1642
Civil War
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1649
Execution of Charles I and parliament (led by Oliver Cromwell) rules country
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1660
Restoration of monarchy
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1688
Glorious Revolution (James II replaced by William of Orange)
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1721
Robert Walpole becomes first Prime Minister
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1776
American Declaration of Independence
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1832
Great Reform Act
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1833
Slavery banned throughout entire British empire
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1834
Tolpuddle Martyrs arrested and transported to Australia
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1839
People's Charter published
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1815 and 1846
Corn Law passed and Corn Law repealed
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1871
Trade Unions Act (making them legal and protecting them). Effectiveness limited by 1871 law making picketing illegal
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1872
Secret Ballot
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1888
Annie Besant and the Match Girls Strike
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1889
London Docker's Strike
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1911
Parliament Act - asserted elected House of Commons more important than House of Lords
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1918
Women over 30 given vote
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1926
General Strike - railway workers, coal miners and transport workers to improve conditions and pay
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1928
Everyone over age of 21 could vote
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1948
Arrival of Windrush at dock in London
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1969
Everyone over age of 18 could vote
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1981
Brixton Riots
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1984
Miners' strike (lead by Scargill) against Thatcher trying to close unproductive mines
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Card 2

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First time commons represented in House of Commons (by Simon de Montfort)

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1265

Card 3

Front

Lincolnshire Rising and Peasant's Revolt

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Card 4

Front

Pilgrimage of Grace

Back

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Card 5

Front

Civil War

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