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| 1835 |
| | | Election results in Britain mean that Robert Peel is unable to form a Tory government, and Lord Melbourne returns as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1837 |
| | | The 18-year-old Victoria comes to the throne in Britain, beginning the long Victorian era | |
|  | Winterhalter Queen Victoria (detail)
National Maritime Museum
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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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