Corn Laws Repealed
June 25, 1846
Prime Minister Peel, confronted with Irish famine, split his own Tory party to repeal the protective tariffs that kept cheap foreign grain out of Britain. It was the triumph of Manchester-school free trade - and the making of the Liberal Party. Peel lost his office. The principle stood for seventy years.
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Also in 1846 (3 other events on record)
- Mexican-American War Declared · North America · War
- Neptune Discovered · Europe · Science
- Iowa Joins Union · North America · Politics
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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