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French invasion of Ireland, kicking off the War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) > Great Irish Rebellion (1796-9)

Acts of Union, 1797, unifying Great Britain and Ireland

Heads of British Isles > 1797-1797 William Pitt the Younger (Tory) resigns over George III's refusal of Catholic emancipation, Heads of British Isles > 1797-1814 Henry Addington (Tory) becomes Prime Minister

Lives of Great Britons > Charles James Fox arrested for toasting to "Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People"

General Lazare Hoche dies in battle, greatly weakening the War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) > Great Irish Rebellion (1796-9)

Lives of Great Britons > Charles James Fox freed from the Tower of London

End of the War of the French Revolution (1792-1804) with a final peace

Heads of British Isles > 1797-1814 Henry Addington (Tory) makes restrictions on Dissenter religion permanent, amending the Toleration Act

With ascent of Prince Regent George, Heads of British Isles > 1797-1814 Henry Addington (Tory) forced out of power and replaced by Ministry of All Talents led by Heads of British Isles > 1814-1815 Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira (Ministry of All Talents [led by Whigs])

Slave trade banned

Collapse of Heads of British Isles > 1814-1815 Francis Rawdon-Hastings, Earl of Moira (Ministry of All Talents [led by Whigs]) over Catholic emancipation and replaced by Heads of British Isles > 1815-1822 Richard Wellesley, Marquess of Wellesley (Tory)

Radical demonstrators in St. Peter's Square massacred, in the Manchester Massacre

Year Without A Summer

British navy intercepts French Republic headed towards St. Domingue, beginning Second French War (1821-32)

Heads of British Isles > 1815-1822 Richard Wellesley, Marquess of Wellesley (Tory) forced out of power after one blackout too many

With Neapolitan Revolution Second French War (1821-32) becomes a wider event as more countries are drawn in to the fight

Lives of Great Britons > Samuel Whitbread arrested for toasting to "Our Sovereign, the Majesty of the People"

Clontarf Massacre - Irish nationalist protests end with a brutal massacre by British authorities

British Wars > Popular Revolution (1827-9) - British radicals successfully overthrow the Guelph monarchy and convene a Convention Parliament

Convention Parliament makes British Isles a quasi-republican state, with a new Charter of Liberty and Security and Frame of Government

First election - decisive Whig-Radical majority and rise of Heads of British Isles > 1829-1831 John Spencer, Lord Althorp (Whig)

Downfall of Althorp government; rise of Heads of British Isles > 1831-1833 Samuel Whitbread (Mountain Whig - Philosophic Radical - Irish Nationalist coalition)

Municipal Reform Bill defeated after veto of House of Lords; fall of Heads of British Isles > 1831-1833 Samuel Whitbread (Mountain Whig - Philosophic Radical - Irish Nationalist coalition) government

Rise of Heads of British Isles > 1833-1834 James Abercromby (Old Whig - Huskissonite Tory coalition) government in the name of moderate reform

Defeat of Heads of British Isles > 1833-1834 James Abercromby (Old Whig - Huskissonite Tory coalition) municipal reform plan and collapse of government

Return of Heads of British Isles > 1834-1837 Samuel Whitbread (Radical) to power

Ratification of the Municipal Reform Act over the veto of the House of Lords, reforming every city government in the British Isles

Orange Riots - Orange Order organizes a protest outside the Palace of Westminster against reform and for Guelph restoration, storms the palace, and burns it to the ground, resulting in a period of mass rioting in London

• Under Heads of British Isles > 1828-1839 Henry Vassall-Fox, Baron Holland (Whig) organizes meeting of Parliament at Exeter Hall to authorize military action
• Rioters crushed but many spooked

Parliament bans the Orange Order, attaints Heads of British Isles > 1833-1851 "Ernest I", along with other aristocrats, and impeaches the leader of the Orange Order in the British Isles itself

To maintain order after the Orange Riots, the British government establishes a series of county constabularies under a number of elected sheriffs

Sheriff of Armagh impeached, convicted for declaring his loyalty to the House of Guelph

1837 election, Heads of British Isles > 1834-1837 Samuel Whitbread (Radical) weakened and defeated in ensuing vote of no confidence

Heads of British Isles > 1837-1839 Lord John Russell (Moderate Whig - Huskissonite Tory coalition) comes to power to moderate the government

Collapse of the Bank of England; Recessions > Panic of 1835 begins

Death of Chief Magistrate Heads of British Isles > 1828-1839 Henry Vassall-Fox, Baron Holland (Whig)

Heads of British Isles > 1837-1839 Lord John Russell (Moderate Whig - Huskissonite Tory coalition) administration unable to obtain a majority for making Lord Holland's son next chief magistrate; government collapses

Russia's Wars > Turkish War of Succession (1841-4) begins; despite a backlash against the Turks, Britain intervenes in Turkey's favor

British victory in Russia's Wars > Turkish War of Succession (1841-4)

Heads of British Isles > 1840-1844 Lord John Russell (Moderate) collapses over First Enthronement Bill

Passage of Indigent Relief Code, better known as the New Poor Law, to widespread opposition

Heads of British Isles > 1845-1846 Wilfrid Lawson (Radical) institutes the secret ballot to clean up chaos of elections

Heads of British Isles > 1846-1846 Henry Petty, Lord Lansdowne (Moderate) institutes an Irish Coercion Act, greatly escalating Repealer agitation led by Daniel O'Connell

Heads of British Isles > 1846-1857 Wilfrid Lawson (Radical) comes to power

Heads of British Isles > 1846-1857 Wilfrid Lawson (Radical) successfully passes the Irish Legislature Act, over the veto of the House of Lords

British Wars > New Granadine War of Independence (1848-52) begins, Britain intervenes