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1821 - 18301821 May 5: Napoleon Bonaparte dies on St Helena 1822 Caledonian canal opened 1823 New laws concerning marriage by licence Scottish testaments prior to 1823 transferred to S.R.O. Babbage builds a section of a calculating machine. In England, Ronalds builds a telegraph in his garden; no one is interested. 1824 Combination Acts repealed (Trades Unions allowed) 1825 Horse-drawn buses in London Stockton to Darlington Railway opens Hobhouse makes amendments to Acts to protect Child Labour in cotton
factories 1826 Scotland's first commercial railway was opened, Edinburgh to Dalkeith White's first Commercial Directory – Hull 1828 April 28: Repeal of Test and Corporation Acts – had kept
non-Anglicans (Catholics and Dissenters) from holding public office and deprived
them of other rights 1829 April 4: Catholic Emancipation Act restores civil liberties to Roman
Catholics Earliest Irvingite registers First two omnibuses (pulled by three horses) introduced by George
Schillibeer London Metropolitan police force formed George Stephenson's Rocket Lucifer matches first manufactured 1830 June 26: George IV dies – his brother, William IV, accedes to the
throne September 15: The world's first important railway
opened between Liverpool and Manchester, in England. It was engineered by George
Stephenson and his son, Robert. George Stephenson had built the locomotive used on the
world's first public steam railway, running between Stockton and Darlington, which opened
in 1825. Soon railways were operating throughout the Western world.
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