• The 1835 Wolverhampton riot was an outbreak of violence upon the occasion of a hotly contested county by-election to the House of Commons of the United...
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    the Tory candidate led to the 1835 Wolverhampton riot, with dragoons being called in to end the intimidation. Wolverhampton was incorporated as a municipal...
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    George Anson (British Army officer, born 1797) (category UK MPs 1832–1835)
    different George Anson - the uncle of the subject of this article. 1835 Wolverhampton riot Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs Maj.-Gen. Hon. George Anson...
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    was founded in 1833, received its enabling act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838 with the initial route completed between...
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    Satyagraha Rowlatt Committee Rowlatt Bills Jallianwala Bagh massacre Noakhali riots Non-cooperation movement Christmas Day Plot Coolie-Begar movement Chauri...
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  • regimental training was carried out at Derby. On 30 May 1810 there was a riot at Wolverhampton Market, and the Bilston Troop was called out to assist the magistrates...
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    occurring during the 2005 riot. The 2011 England riots also spread to the Handsworth area. The Guardian's online article "Riots don't happen without a reason"...
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    Great Western Railway (GWR) was incorporated by an act of Parliament in 1835 and nationalised on 1 January 1948. During this time it amalgamated with...
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    (CNR) opened in 1855, linking with Kingham on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway. In 1887, a second railway opened to the Oxford and Rugby Railway...
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    the Black Country. Wednesbury is situated 5 miles (8km) south-east of Wolverhampton, 3 miles (4.4km) south-west of Walsall, and 7 miles (11.8km) north-west...
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  • radical and man of letters John Jones (ironmaster) (1835–1897), English politician and mayor of Wolverhampton John Share Jones (1873–1950), British veterinary...
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    of French Indochina. First electric car produced by Thomas Parker in Wolverhampton. Siege of Khartoum. Germany gains control of Cameroon. Mark Twain publishes...
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  • Kellock, 70, Scottish footballer (Cardiff City, Peterborough United, Wolverhampton Wanderers). 29 March – Iain McChesney, 79, Scottish footballer (Queen...
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  • Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Sandwell Wolverhampton Carmelite Monastery * Carmelite nuns extant Wolverhampton Monastery (?) + Saxon monks founded 659...
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    Darlington, in the County of Durham, to Staindrop, in the said County. Wolverhampton Roads Act 1793 33 Geo. 3. c. 147 30 April 1793 An Act to enlarge the...
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  • 2012, Aidan Byrne, from the School of Humanities at the University of Wolverhampton wrote a negative review of the book for LSE Review of Books. Unaware...
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    Britain" after seeing off other strong contenders such as Glasgow and Wolverhampton. Bradford scored highly not just for the quality of food and service...
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    Ann, Jamaica (2007) Siena, Italy (1961) Torremaggiore, Italy (2004) Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Yıldırım, Turkey (2010) New York (state) portal United...
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    as the principal west England maintenance centre until closed in 1986. In 1835, Parliament approved the construction of the Great Western Main Line between...
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    Retrieved 6 January 2012. "1981 – In brief". Those were the days. Wolverhampton. 1976. Retrieved 6 October 2014. "RSC honours Oxford University team...
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    was suspended due to the Queen Square riots caused by the arrival of Sir Charles Wetherell in Clifton. The riots drove away investors, leaving no money...
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    campaign group (three men: Kerry Whitburn of Edgbaston, John Smith of Wolverhampton, John Ablewhite of Manchester; and one woman: Josephine Mayo of Staffordshire)...
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    Paddington station, London Locale England; Wales Workshops Swindon Wolverhampton Major stations Birmingham Snow Hill Bristol Temple Meads Cardiff General...
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    the opening of the Great Western Main Line from Paddington to Bristol in 1835, and is notable in that the route taken differed in the up and down directions...
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    in 1854 came 56 locomotives, a second workshop at Wolverhampton, and Joseph Armstrong. Wolverhampton was responsible for maintaining standard gauge locomotives...
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    course alongside their studies. The river frontage was completed in April 1835 at a cost of £7,100, its completion a condition of King's College London...
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    (not in order) Birmingham, Manchester, Bradford, Nottingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton,Luton, Watford, Slough, Leicester, Bristol, Gloucester, Leeds, Huddersfield...
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    Rev. Luke Booker (20 October 1762 – 1 October 1835) LL.D., FRLS was an English Anglican clergyman, poet and antiquary, with a long list of published sermons...
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    station on 28 November 1888. A proposed second railway line by the Wolverhampton, Walsall and Midland Junction Railway Company through Sutton Coldfield...
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  • gay. Anwen Muston, a British Labour Party politician, was elected to Wolverhampton City Council at the 2016 elections; this makes her the first openly...
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