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George Allen?–?

Name
George Allen
Given names
George
Surname
Allen
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BirthYes
 

MarriageHarriet Court - View family
Yes
 

History 1798
 

Note: Battle of the Nile.
History 1799
 

Note: Napoleon named First Consul of France.
History 1801
 

Note: Union of Great Britain and Ireland.
History 1804
 

Note: Napoleon declared Emperor.
History 1805
 

Note: Battle of Trafalgar.
History 1809
 

Note: Napoleon captures Vienna.
History 1811
 

Note: Prince of Wales named Regent to act for George III, now insane.<br />Luddite riots in the North and the Midlands. Laborers attack factories and break up the machines which they fear will replace them.
History 1812
 

Note: Napoleon invades Russia.<br />War of 1812 between England and the United States.
History 1814
 

Note: Treaty of Ghent ends Anglo-U.S. War.<br />England and allies invade France.<br />Napoleon exiled to Elba.
History 1815
 

Note: Napoleon escapes Elba, begins the Hundred Days.<br />Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon exiled to St. Helena in the South Atlantic.<br />Corn Laws passed.
History 1819
 

Note: Peterloo Massacre of Corn Law protestors.
History 1820
 

Note: George IV succeeds George III on his death
History 1821
 

Note: Napoleon dies.
History 1829
 

Note: Peel establishes the Metropolitan Police.
History 1830
 

Note: George IV dies, his brother William IV succeeds.<br />Manchester - Liverpool Railway (first in England).
History 1832
 

Note: First Reform Bill: adds 10 pound/year householders to the voting rolls and reapportions Parliamentary representation much more fairly, doing away with most rotten and pocket boroughs. Adds 217,000 voters to an electorate of 435,000.
History 1833
 

Note: Slavery abolished throughout the British Empire.<br />Factory Act.
Birth of a son
#1		 before 1 June 1834
 Acrise, Kent, England

son - Stephen Pilcher Allen
History 1834
 

Note: New Poor Law.<br />Houses of Parliament burn down.
Baptism of a son 1 June 1834
 Acrise, Kent, England

son - Stephen Pilcher Allen
History 1837
 

Note: William IV dies, succeeded by his niece, Victoria.
History 1838
 

Note: Regular Atlantic steamship service begins.
History 1839
 

Note: Anti-Corn-Law League founded.
History 1840
 

Note: Queen Victoria marries her cousin Albert, who becomes Prince Consort.<br />Penny post started.<br />S.F.B. Morse invents the telegraph.<br />Grammar Schools Act.
History 1842
 

Note: Chartist Riots.<br />Copyright Act.<br />Potato Failure in Europe, starvation in Ireland. Corn Laws (which had kept up the price of grain) repealed.
History 1849
 

Note: Gold discovered in California and Australia.
History 1850
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under English Channel.
History 1851
 

Note: Great Exhibition (Crystal Palace).
History 1853
 

Note: Crimean War.
History 1855
 

Note: Livingston discovers Victoria Falls.
Marriage of a sonStephen Pilcher Allen - View family
1857
 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

son - Stephen Pilcher Allen
daughter-in-law - Mary Ann Head
History 1857
 

Note: The Mutiny (India).
History 1858
 

Note: First Atlantic cable laid.
History 1861
 

Note: Albert dies, Victoria retires into mourning.<br />American Civil War.
History 1862
 

Note: Bismarck becomes Prussian premier.
History 1864
 

Note: Geneva Convention establishes Red Cross.
History 1867
 

Note: Telegraph cable laid under the Atlantic.<br />Second Reform Bill: enfranchises many workingmen, adds 938,000 to an electorate of 1,057,000 in England and Wales. (Disraeli's legislation)
History 1869
 

Note: Suez Canal opened.
History 1869
 

Note: Union Pacific Railway completed in U.S.
History 1870
 

Note: Forster's Elementary Education Act establishes School Boards.<br />Franco-Prussian War.
History 1871
 

Note: Trade unions legalised.<br />Newcastle engineers strike for a nine-hour day.<br />Germany unified.
History 1876
 

Note: Victoria named Empress of India.<br />Edison invents the phonograph.<br />Compulsory school attendance in Great Britain.
History 1877
 

Note: Transvaal annexed.
History 1879
 

Note: Zulu war.
History 1880
 

Note: War with Transvaal.
History 1882
 

Note: Married Women's Property Act enables women to buy, own, and sell property, and to keep their own earnings.
History 1883
 

Note: Mahdi Rebellion in the Sudan.
History 1884
 

Note: Third Reform Act and Redistribution Act extend vote to agricultural workers, electorate tripled.
History 1885
 

Note: Fall of Khartoum.
History 1886
 

Note: First (Irish) Home Rule bill rejected.
History 1887
 

Note: Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
History 1889
 

Note: London dock workers and match girls strike for 6d./hour.
History 1897
 

Note: Victoria's Diamond Jubilee.
History 1898
 

Note: Spanish-American War.
History 1899
 

Note: Boer war.
History 1901
 

Note: Victoria dies, Edward Prince of Wales succeeds.
History 1903
 

Note: U.S. acquires Canal Zone from Panama.
History 1904
 

Note: Entente Cordiale (England and France).
History 1905
 

Note: Revolution in Russia.
Death of a son 1907
 Victoria, Australia

son - Stephen Pilcher Allen
DeathYes
 

Family with Harriet Court - View family
himself
George Allen

Death Yes  

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wife
Harriet Court

Death Yes  

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Marriage: Yes
#1 son
Stephen Pilcher Allen

Birth before 1 June 1834  Acrise, Kent, England

Death 1907 (Age 72)  Victoria, Australia

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