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| 1838 |
| | The People's Charter, with its six political demands, launches the Chartist movement in England | |
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| 1838 |
| | Seven Manchester merchants and mill-owners found the Anti-Corn Law League | |
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| 1841 |
| | Robert Peel replaces Lord Melbourne as prime minister after a Conservative victory in the British general election | |
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| 1842 |
| | Robert Peel's Conservative administration reintroduces income tax in Britain, at a fixed level of approximately 3% | |
| | Victoria and Albert pay income tax in a Punch cartoon of 1842 National Archives, Kew
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| 1844 |
| | In his novel Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli develops the theme of Conservatism uniting 'two nations', the rich and the poor | |
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| 1846 |
| | British prime minister Robert Peel carries a bill to repeal the Corn Laws, splitting his own party in the process | |
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| 1846 |
| | The minority of Conservatives supporting Peel become a separate faction, henceforth known as the Peelites | |
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| 1846 |
| | With his Conservative party split, Peel's government falls and Lord John Russell becomes British prime minister at the head of a Whig administration | |
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| 1850 |
| | British foreign secretary Lord Palmerston sends a naval squadron to seize Greek ships in the Don Pacifico case | |
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| 1852 |
| | Lord John Russell's Whig administration collapses, and Lord Derby follows him as a Conservative prime minister at the head of a coalition government | |
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