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Magna Carta |
(1215): reduced rights of the king and laid out basic rights of the people. |
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Act for the Government of Wales |
(under King Henry VII, 1500s): united England and Wales |
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Habeas Corpus Act |
(1679): forbid unlawful imprisonment |
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Bill of Rights |
(1689): confirmed the rights of Parliament and the limits of the king’s power |
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Act of Union |
(1707): united kingdoms of England and Scotland and created Kingdom of GB |
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Reform Act |
(1832): abolished pocket and rotten boroughs and gave more parliamentary seats to towns and cities. Increased number of (male) voters. |
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Emancipation Act |
(1833): abolished slavery throughout British Empire. William Wilberforce was leading abolitionist and Quakers set up first anti-slavery groups. More than 2 million migrants came from India and China to replace labour force. |
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Women’s suffrage |
1918 (vote at 30+ years) and 1928 (vote at 21 years, same as men) |
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Home Rule |
1913: Home Rule proposed in Ireland. Idea was to have a self-governing Ireland with its own parliament that still remained part of the UK. WWI postponed any changes. Irish nationalists didn’t want to wait and the Easter Rising against the British in Dublin took place in 1916. Guerrilla war followed. |
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1921 |
Peace treaty signed splitting Ireland in two |
