Peterloo Massacre
August 16, 1819
A crowd of sixty thousand had gathered on St. Peter's Field in Manchester to hear Henry Hunt speak for parliamentary reform. The magistrates sent in yeomanry with sabres. Eighteen people died, hundreds were wounded. The nickname, a sneer against Waterloo, stuck - and the road to the 1832 Reform Act began.
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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