Radicals & Reform · event 6 of 10

1846

The Corn Laws are repealed. Peel’s government abolishes the tariffs, splitting the Conservative Party for a generation. It is the first great victory of an organised extra-parliamentary campaign in Britain, and it was run from Manchester.

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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