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Event
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1838 |
Joanna Baillie, A View of the General Tenor of the New Testament Regarding the Nature and Dignity of Jesus Christ, second edition. |
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1838 |
Gideon Mantell, The Wonders of Geology. |
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1838 |
Wordsworth, Sonnets. |
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1838 |
Hennell, An Inquiry Concerning the Origin of Christianity. |
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1838 |
John Stuart Mill, "Bentham." |
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1838 |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Alice. |
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1838 |
Maurice, Kingdom of Christ. |
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1838 |
Completion of the London & Birmingham Railway and the Great Western Railway. |
*Industrial Revolution |
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1838 |
Establishment of the Public Record Office. |
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1838 |
Beginning of regulation of pub hours. |
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1838 |
Completion of the National Gallery. |
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1838 |
The Great Western, Brunel's steamship, crosses the Atlantic. |
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1838 |
Opening of the Royal Orthopedic Hospital. |
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1838 |
Committee on Trade Unions meets. |
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1838 |
Lord Durham's report on Canada. |
*Canada |
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1838 |
Ireland: Father Mathew founds Temperance movement. |
*Ireland |
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1838 - 1839 |
Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby. |
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1838 - 1840 |
Edward William Lane, translation of Thousand-and-One Nights (aka Arabian Nights). |
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June 1838 - July 1838 |
The requirement for emancipated slaves to serve an apprenticeship was abolished in various colonies of the West Indies. |
*Abolition |
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Aug 1, 1838 |
The Immediate Abolition Act passed in 1838 marks a victory for the abolition of slavery and slave trading throughout Britain and its colonies. |
*Abolition |
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Oct 15, 1838 |
Letitia Landon dies at Cape Coast (now Ghana). |
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1839 |
Chartist petition ignored by government: "charter" of political reforms is presented to Parliament by workers and rejected. |
*Chartism |
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1839 |
William Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne and Benjamin Disraeli marries Mary Anne Lewis. |
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1839 |
Thomas Carlyle, Chartism. |
*Chartism |
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1839 |
Thomas Hood, Hood's Own, or Laughter from Year to Year. |
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