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Parliament

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

3Records
1831–1832Date range
1Named people
1Places

Chronological records

1831

Charles Grey Grey, 2nd19 April 1831

Government / Whig Party Government

Goes to the Country after the Lords defeat of the first reform bill

Charles Grey Grey, 2nd22 April 1831

Government / Whig Party Government

Parliament is dissolved after the defeat of the 1st Reform Bill in the Commons

1832

Charles Grey Grey, 2nd1832

London · Government / Whig Party Government

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

Names involved

Charles Grey Grey, 2nd

Provenance

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