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  2. 1816 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    16 May – Beau Brummell flees England by way of the port of Dover, sailing to France in order to escape his gambling debts. 22 May – Littleport and Ely riots break out as a result of economic distress in East Anglia. [4] 14 June – Society for the Promotion of Permanent and Universal Peace established in London.

  3. Category:1816 in England - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "1816 in England" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.

  4. Category:1816 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    1816 in England (2 C, 3 P) 1816 in Ireland (2 C, 3 P) ... Pages in category "1816 in the United Kingdom" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.

  5. List of prime ministers of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Before the Union of England and Scotland in 1707, the Treasury of England was led by the Lord High Treasurer. [12] By the late Tudor period, the Lord High Treasurer was regarded as one of the Great Officers of State, [12] and was often (though not always) the dominant figure in government: Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset (lord high treasurer, 1547–1549), [13] served as lord protector to ...

  6. List of British monarchs - Wikipedia

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    There have been 13 British monarchs since the political union of the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland on 1 May 1707.England and Scotland had been in personal union since 24 March 1603; while the style, "King of Great Britain" first arose at that time, legislatively the title came into force in 1707.

  7. Territorial evolution of the British Empire - Wikipedia

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    The British Empire refers to the possessions, dominions, and dependencies under the control of the Crown.In addition to the areas formally under the sovereignty of the British monarch, various "foreign" territories were controlled as protectorates; territories transferred to British administration under the authority of the League of Nations or the United Nations; and miscellaneous other ...

  8. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1816

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    An act to revive and continue, until Two Years after the Expiration of the Restrictions upon Payments in Cash by the Bank of England, an Act for suspending the Operation of an Act of the Seventeenth Year of His present Majesty, for restraining the Negociation of Promissory Notes and Bills of Exchange under a limited Sum, in England.

  9. Peterloo Massacre - Wikipedia

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    In 1816, Thomas Oldfield's The Representative History of Great Britain and Ireland; being a History of the House of Commons, and of the Counties, Cities, and Boroughs of the United Kingdom from the earliest Period claimed that of the 515 MPs for England and Wales 351 were returned by the patronage of 177 individuals and a further 16 by the ...