Robert Walpole Orford, 1st3 April 1721
Britains 1st Prime Minister
Great Britain · Government / Whig Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Britains 1st Prime Minister
Appointed Prime MInister of Great Britain, a "nominal" position, by George II
Acknowledges the exclusive right of the Irish Parliament to legislate for Ireland
Passes legislation establishing a new constitution for the East India Company
The new state is to be called the United Kingdom. The Act of Union of Great Britain & Ireland becomes effective. Ireland will send 4 spiritual Lords & 28 temporal peers to Westminster. Ireland is to send 100 MPs to Westminster. Churches are united into a single Protestant Episcopal Church
1st Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Ireland assembles
Grey asks William IV to dissolve Parliament so that the Whigs could secure a larger majority in the House of Commons, Grey explains this would help his Government to carry their proposals for Parliamentary reform
The Representation of the People Act 1832, commonly known as the Reform Act 1832, is passed as an Act of Parliament that introduces wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of the United Kingdom
The Representation of the People Act 1832, grants seats in the House of Commons to large cities that had sprung up during the Industrial Revolution, and took away seats from the "rotten boroughs".
The Representation of the People Act 1832, increases the number of individuals entitled to vote, increasing the size of the electorate by 50-80%, and allowing a total of one out of six adult males to vote, in a population of some 14 million.
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