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  2. Reform Act 1832 - Wikipedia

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    The Representation of the People Act 1832 (also known as the Reform Act 1832, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. 4. c. 45) that introduced major changes to the electoral system of England and Wales. It reapportioned constituencies to address the unequal distribution of ...

  3. 1832 in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Similar legislation is passed for Scotland (the Scottish Reform Act) [7] and Ireland (An Act to Amend the Representation of the People of Ireland, the Irish Reform Act). [8] 4 July – University of Durham is founded by Act of Parliament at the instigation of the authorities of the city's cathedral.

  4. Reform Acts - Wikipedia

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    The following Acts of Parliament are known as Reform Acts: Reform Act 1832 (often called the "Great Reform Act" or "First Reform Act"), [14] which applied to England and Wales and gave representation to previously underrepresented urban areas and extended the qualifications for voting. Scottish Reform Act 1832, a similar reform applying to ...

  5. List of constituencies enfranchised and disfranchised by the ...

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    The following 56 parliamentary boroughs, in England, were completely disenfranchised by the Act. [1] They had all returned two members except for Higham Ferrers, which was a single member constituency. The disenfranchised boroughs lost all independent legislative representation; instead the inhabitants could vote only as part of the county ...

  6. Rotten and pocket boroughs - Wikipedia

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    Old Sarum in Wiltshire, an uninhabited hill which until 1832 elected two Members of Parliament. Painting by John Constable, 1829. A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorate and could be used by a ...

  7. Days of May - Wikipedia

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    A meeting of the Birmingham Political Union during May 1832, painted by Benjamin Haydon. The Days of May was a period of significant social unrest and political tension in the United Kingdom in May 1832, after the Tories [a] blocked the Third Reform Bill in the House of Lords, which aimed to extend parliamentary representation to the middle and working classes as well as the newly ...

  8. Why are flags at half-staff in Tennessee today? - AOL

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    The flag can be ordered to fly at half-staff by the president, a state governor or the mayor of the District of Columbia. Here are the events that usually trigger it: The death of a government ...

  9. List of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1832

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    An Act for the Relief of His Majesty's Subjects in Ireland being Protestants of the Established Church, and to repeal an Act passed in the Parliament of Ireland in the Thirty-third Year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third, intituled An Act to remove some Doubts respecting Persons in Office taking the Sacramental Test.