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 1833 - 1835 (1 years)
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| 1 | 1833 | - 1833: UK - Abolition of Slavery throughout the British Empire.
- 1833: UK - Parliament passes the Factory Act, prohibiting children aged less than nine from working in factories, and reducing the working hours of women and older children
- 1833: UK - Start of the Oxford Movement in the Anglican Church
- 1833: CA - Royal William, formerly operating between Quebec and Halifax, becomes first steamship to cross Atlantic.
- 30 Aug 1833: UK - The United Kingdom abolishes slavery in the British West Indies.
- 19 Sep 1833: CA - Military riot at Montreal.
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| 2 | 1834 | - 1834: UK - Charles Babbage designed a programmable mechanical calculating machine, or 'analytical engine,' that could carry out arithmetic operations specified on punch cards and choose the sequence of operations. Although the design was never built, Augusta Ada Byron wrote programs to demonstrate its potential power.
- 1834: UK - Robert Owen founds the Grand National Consolidated Trade Union. The government acts against 'illegal oaths' in such unionism, resulting in the Tolpuddle Martyrs being transported to Australia
- 1834: London, UK - Fire destroys the Palace of Westminster
- 1834: UK - New Poor Law Act, object to make life in the workhouse far worse than in fields and factories
- 1834: USA - Jacob Perkins invents an early refrigerator (really an ether ice machine).
- 1834: USA - Henry Blair patents a corn planter, he is the second black person to receive a U.S. patent.
- 23 Jan 1834: CA - The Castle of St. Louis (Quebec) is burned.
- 6 Mar 1834: CA - Incorporation of Toronto, heretofore York, Upper Canada.
- 31 Jul 1834: CA/UK - At midnight July 31, slavery comes to an end in all British territories, including British North America. To honour this important event, August 1 is celebrated as Emancipation Day in Windsor, Ontario, and elsewhere.
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| 3 | 1835 | - 1835: UK - Parliament passes the Municipal Reform Act, requiring members of town councils to be elected by ratepayers and councils to publish their financial accounts
- 1835: UK - Commercial boom. 'Little' railway mania across Britain starts and continues into 1836
- 1835: UK - Englishman Francis Pettit Smith invents the propeller.
- 1835: UK - Solymon Merrick patents the wrench.
- 1835: UK - Charles Babbage invents a mechanical calculator.
- 1835: CA - Joseph Howe, a Halifax printer and owner since 1828 of the weekly Novascotian, is arrested for libel but successfully argues his own case for freedom of the press. A local hero, he begins advocating the kind of responsible government that is only established in 1848.
- 1835: NL - Eerste spoorlijn Haarlem - Amsterdam.
- 1 Jun 1835: CA - Official opening of the Kingston Penitentiary.
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