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1819

Peterloo. On 16 August around 60,000 people gather on St Peter’s Field to demand parliamentary representation — Manchester has no MP at all. Cavalry ride into the crowd. At least eighteen are killed and hundreds injured. The memorial is built two hundred years later.

The Radicals & Reform era

  1. 1819
  2. 1821
  3. 1839
  4. 1844
  5. 1845
  6. 1846
  7. 1852
  8. 1868
  9. 1903
  10. 1918

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