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Reform of Trade

Great Britain · Government / Tory Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1811–1846Date range
2Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1811

Spencer Perceval1811

London · Government / Tory Party Government

An Enforcement Bill makes participation in the slave trade a transportable offence

1846

Robert Peel6 June 1846

London · Government / Tory Party Government

The corn import duty is fixed at one shilling a quarter from 1849 onwards

Names involved

Robert PeelSpencer Perceval

Provenance

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