Catholic Emancipation
April 13, 1829
Wellington's Tory government, faced with Daniel O'Connell's mass meetings and the threat of civil war in Ireland, pushed through a bill allowing Catholics to sit in Parliament. The king cried when he signed it. It was the first great victory of organized popular pressure in nineteenth-century Britain, and the last of Anglican monopoly.
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.