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3 giorni fa · United Kingdom - 18th-century Britain, 1714–1815: When Georg Ludwig, elector of Hanover, became king of Great Britain on August 1, 1714, the country was in some respects bitterly divided. Fundamentally, however, it was prosperous, cohesive, and already a leading European and imperial power. Abroad, Britain’s involvement in the ...
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1 giorno fa · The foundation of the Bank of England in 1694 and other finance companies made it possible to make fortunes on the stock market, and the expansion of trade and industry forged powerful mercantile dynasties such as the Whitbreads (brewing), Smiths (banking), and Strutts (textiles).
4 giorni fa · Country Facts. Capital, Population, Government... Beyond the machinery of government, the Poor Law of 1834 represented the clearest example of the new ideological departures that characterized the liberal state.
4 giorni fa · In the early decades of the new century the University continued in its traditional ways, small in numbers and parochial in outlook. The census returns of 1801 and 1811 show only about 800 members in residence, but after 1807 numbers began to rise, and after 1819 Cambridge went ahead of Oxford.
4 giorni fa · Five Commissioners were appointed in 1815 to inquire as to the duties, salaries and emoluments of the officers, clerks and ministers of justice in England and Wales. Alexander succeeded Campbell as Chief Commissioner in 1820.
1 giorno fa · Peel's currency bill of 1819 secured a gradual return of cash payments, and the old metallic standard was restored. It was Peel's great principle that a national bank should always be prepared to pay specie for its notes on demand, a principle he afterwards worked out in the Bank Charter.
1 giorno fa · It found that in England, in small population samples, 50% to 100% of paternal genetic inheritance was derived from people originating in the Germanic coastlands of the North Sea.
