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 1829 - 1831 (1 years)
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| 1 | 1829 | - 1829: UK - Parliament passes the Catholic Relief Act, ending most restrictions on Catholic Civil Rights. They are allowed to own property and run for public office, including parliament
- 1829: UK - Sir Robert Peel founds the Metropolitan Police Force, constables become known as bobbies
- 1829: USA - Andrew Jackson president of the USA to 1837.
- 1829: USA - William Austin Burt patents a typographer, a predecessor to the typewriter.
- 1829: France - Louis Braille invents braille printing.
- 1829: NL - Verboden in de kerken te begraven.
- 4 Jan 1829: CA - Sir John Colborne, Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada founds Upper Canada College, as a feeder school to the newly formed University of Toronto and a home for the colony's upper class.
- 30 Nov 1829: CA - construction of the first Welland Canal is completed.
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| 3 | 1831 | - 1831: UK - Michael Faraday, in the first in a series of Experimental Researches in Electricity, discovered the means of producing electricity from magnetism, i.e., electromagnetic induction, the generation of an electric field by a changing magnetic field. This is the principle of the dynamo
- 1831: UK - Swing Riots' in rural areas against the mechanization of agricultural activities.
- 1831: UK - The new London Bridge is opened over the River Thames
- 1831: UK - Population of England and Wales now 14 million
- 1831: UK - American, Cyrus H. McCormick invents the first commercially successful reaper.
- 1831: CA - A charter for a railway, from La Prairie, Quebec to St. John's, is granted; it will be the first railway in Canada.
- 1831: CA - Male Jews were extended full political and religious rights.
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