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Timeline 1800-1849

1800-1849 | 1850-1899 | All Timelines
National Events

1805 – Naval Battle of Trafalgar 21 October

1807 – The Slave Trade Act 1807 was passed

1815 – Napoleonic Wars: The Napoleonic Wars ended. Battle of Waterloo on 18 June

1815 – Corn Laws established

1819 – Peterloo Massacre: A massacre took place

1825 – The Stockton and Darlington railway, the world’s first public passenger railway, opened

1829 – The Catholic Relief Act 1829 was passed

1832 – The Great Reform Act was passed, doubling the franchise

1834 – The New Poor Law was passed

1838 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 entered into force

1838 – The Chartism movement began

1842 – The first peacetime income tax was introduced

1846 – The Corn Laws were repealed

1848 – The Communist Manifesto was published

1848 – The Chartism movement ended

Local Events

1823 – At Exeter assizes, John Radford, alias Bright, was found guilty of the murder of Sarah Down, at East Worlington, Devon, drowning her—the deceased was pregnant by him. He was ordered for execution on Saturday. Read more

1834 – News Article: The following feat in agricultural labour has perhaps been rarely equalled, if ever surpassed. A husbandman in the service of Mr. Gardener, of East Worlington, Devon, sowed a field of 118 acres, with oats, 6 bushels to the acre, in the space of eleven days working only the usual number of hours per day.

1847 – Worlington Revel held. The event was held for and enjoyed by ‘the poor the gentry and yeomanry’. The ground selected was a meadow adjoining the river Dart,

Weather

1800 to 1839 First 40 years of the 19th century often contained references to excessive rainfall, floods etc. However, the following years and/or seasons are noted as being ‘dry’: 1800 – A dry summer: 1802 – A dry year: 1807 – A dry year & a dry summer: 1818 – A long, dry & hot summer: 1825 – A dry summer. A notable hot spell in July: 1826 – A warm summer: 1827 – A dry summer: 1835 – A dry summer: 1840 – A dry year; a dry summer

1813/1814 One of the four or five coldest winters on record (Also 1683/84; 1739/40 and 1962/63)

1845 Notably cold weather July to September – This summer was part of a run of poor such seasons from 1843 to 1845 – Persistent / often heavy rains over Ireland accompanied by depressed temperatures during the second half of the summer, precipitated the start of a great famine – the weather conditions (cold / damp) being ideal for spread of the spores which caused the Blight – failure of the corn harvest in Britain

Monarchy

1760 to 1820 George III

1820 to 1830 George IV

 1830 to 1837 William IV

1837 to 1901 Victoria

Prime Ministers

1783 to 1801 William Pitt, the Younger (1st time) – Tory

1801 to 1804 Henry Addington – Tory

1804 to 1806 William Pitt, the Younger (2nd time) – Tory

1806 to 1807 William Wyndham Grenville – Whig

1807–09 William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck (2nd time) – Tory

1809–12 Spencer Perceval – Tory

1812–27 Robert Banks Jenkinson – Tory

1827 George Canning – Tory

1827–28 Frederick John Robinson – Tory

1828–30 Arthur Wellesley (1st time) – Tory

1830–34 Charles Grey – Whig

1834 William Lamb (1st time) – Whig

1834 Arthur Wellesley (2nd time) – Tory

1834 to 1835 Robert Peel (1st time) – Conservative

1835 to 1841 William Lamb (2nd time) – Whig

1841 to 1846 Robert Peel (2nd time) – Conservative

1846 to 1852 John Russell (1st time) – Whig

Rectors

St Mary – East Worlington

1796 Benjamin Clay M.A.

1852 Richard Syndercombe Bryan B.A.

St Mary – West Worlington

1783 William Smith M.A.

1804 Joseph Prust Prust jnr. B.A.

1822 Charles Chichester M.A.

1842 James R D White

1844 Edw. Douglas Tinling M.A.

1847 Walter Maddon Bruton B.C.L.

1877 Thos. Wemyss Pigot

Parish Hall

The barn fulfilled its role as a barn during this period.

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