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| 1822 |
| | | George IV wears a tartan kilt when visiting Edinburgh, and launches a new craze for Highland dress | |
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| 1824 |
| | | The Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800, outlawing trade unions in Britain, are repealed | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Active (later called Locomotion) is the engine on the first passenger railway, between Stockton and Darlington | |
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| 1825 |
| | | The English socialist Robert Owen purchases New Harmony from the Rappists, to test his utopian theories in a new context | |
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| 1828 |
| | | After little more than two years of quarrelsome existence, Robert Owen's community at New Harmony comes to an end | |
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| 1831 |
| | | Old London Bridge is demolished after more than six centuries, ending the chance of frost fairs on the Thames | |
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| 1832 |
| | | English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay | |
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| 1833 |
| | | The first long-distance US railway, in South Carolina, carries its first passengers | |
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| 1837 |
| | | The first trains run between London and Birmingham on the railway designed by Robert Stephenson | |
|  | Primrose Hill Tunnel, c.1837
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| 1840 |
| | | Queen Victoria gives Kew Gardens to the nation, as a botanic garden of scientific importance | |
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