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 1835 - 1837 (2 years)
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| 1 | 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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| 3 | 1837 | - 1837: UK - Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist, drawing attention to Britain's poor.
- 1837: UK - Death of William IV
- 1837: USA - Martin van Buren president of the USA 1837-1841.
- 1837: UK - English schoolmaster Rowland Hill invents the postage stamp.
- 1837: UK - Victoria I, ruler of England to 1901. House of Hanover: Daughter of Edward, 4th son of George III
- 1837: CA - Population of Upper Canada is 397,489.
- 1837: CA - British attempts to unite the colonies of Upper and Lower Canada lead to revolt. Two separate rebellions, one in Upper and one in Lower Canada, fail to dislodge entrenched elites.
- 1837: CA - Black militia units participate in putting down the rebellion in Upper Canada.
- 1837: CA - British parliament passes Coercion Bill, seizes Lower Canada treasury.
- 1837: CA - Unlike Upper and Lower Canada, other Canadian territories move toward responsible government without rebellion. New Brunswick accepts the British offer to allow their assembly more revenue control over salaries of public servants and judges. Nova Scotia agrees to the same conditions in 1839.
- Jul 1837: UK - Births, deaths and marriages must be registered by law
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