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The Irish Church and Constitutional Crisis
In 1868 the question of the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Ireland could no longer be avoided. Gladstone won the Catholics over by calling the Anglican Church a "hideous blot".
He won a majority of more than a hundred seats.
On 1st March 1869 Gladstone introduced his Bill in the Commons. It was passed on the second reading. The real battle came in the Lords. The Queen intervened. The Bill went through.
John Bright |
JOHN BRIGHT (1811-1889)- Radical Quaker and celebrated political orator
- Born in Rochdale, Lancashire
- Father owned a carpet factory
- Believed in free trade and was against the Corn Laws
- Belonged to the Peace Society opposing the Crimean War and the American Civil War
- Became a Radical MP in 1843
- Campaigned for the abolition of capital punishment, the repeal of the Game Laws, the extension of the franchise and political freedom for Jews
The Cutty Sark, the famous Tea Clipper, was launched in 1869.
VICTORIA'S PRIME MINISTERS (1868-1901)
- Disraeli (1868)
- Gladstone (1868-1874)
- Disraeli (1874-1880)
- Gladstone (1880-1885)
- Salisbury (1885-1886)
- Gladstone (1886)
- Salisbury (1886-1892)
- Gladstone (1892-1894)
- Rosebery (1894-1895)
- Salisbury (1895-1901)
 
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| 1837 | Victoria becomes Queen
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| 1859 | Palmerston becomes Prime Minister
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| 1861 | Prince Albert dies
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| 1865 | Palmerston dies
Russell becomes Prime Minister
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| 1868 | Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1870 | Franco-Prussian War
First Irish Land Act
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| 1874 | Disraeli becomes Prime Minister
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| 1877 | Victoria becomes Empress of India
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| 1880 | Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1881 | Disraeli dies
Second Irish Land Act
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| 1885 | Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
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| 1887 | Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee
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| 1892 | Gladstone becomes Prime Minister
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| 1894 | Rosebery becomes Prime Minister
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| 1895 | Salisbury becomes Prime Minister
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| 1897 | Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee
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| 1898 | Gladstone dies
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| 1899 | Second Boer War breaks out
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| 1901 | Queen Victoria dies
Edward VII becomes king
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