1800-1849 | 1850-1899 | All Timelines
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1846 – The Corn Laws were repealed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
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,
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
1760 to 1820 George III
1820 to 1830 George IV
1830 to 1837 William IV
1837 to 1901 Victoria
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
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
The barn fulfilled its role as a barn during this period.
