1830
APR 12: The French Chamber of Deputies rejects the proposals of Charles X’s government to change inheritance laws.
APR 16: The decline of Charles X’s popularity amongst the French public is evident with his review of the Garde Royale in the Champ de Mars being met by an ‘icy silence’. Many spectators even refuse to remove their hats.
APR 30: Charles X dissolves the National Guard of Paris, on the grounds of behaving in an “offensive manner towards the crown”.
JUL 25: Charles X signs the Ordinances of Saint-Cloud, suspending the free press, dissolving new deputies and reducing the number of deputies in future assemblies.
JUL 26: News of the Ordinances is published in the Moniteur newspaper. Resentment and anger builds up throughout the day.
JUL 27: Military patrols are established and strengthened throughout Paris. Soldiers and rioting Parisians engage in street battles resulting in 21 civilian deaths.
JUL 29: Revolutionary flags fly over many of Paris’ major locations, with the Tuileries falling to the Revolutionaries at 1.30pm.
AUG 2: Charles X abdicates in favour of his son, Grandson, who is crowned Louis XIX of France. Charles X leaves for life in exile in England. Louis XIX’s reign lasts just 20 minutes before he abdicates in favour of his son Henri V.
AUG 9: The National Assembly decrees that the throne should pass to Henri V’s distant cousin the duc d’Orleans, who is subsequently crowned Louis-Philippe I.
1832
JUN 7: The Civil Reform Act is passed at Westminster extending and reforming the voting franchise.
OCT 18: The American Civil Reform Act is passed in Potomac City, modelled on the Westminster act passed earlier in the year.
1833
AUG 23: The Slavery Abolition Act is passed at Westminster, abolishing all slavery throughout the British Empire. The British government provides £20 million in compensation to the slave owners. Despite this many plantations are no longer profitable and shut down at increasing rates. This in turn affects textile industry in Northern England, reliant on cotton from the plantations of the southern CBA.
AUG 31: A Militia calling themselves the ‘Knights of Liberty’ attack Fort Fletchall in South Carolina, killing 5 soldiers.
SEP 12: The Knights of Liberty lay siege to the Royal Bank of America at Slatyford, Georgia. Staff and Customers are held hostage, before the Knights surrender to troops of the King’s Own Georgian Rangers.
1834
APR 1: Southern plantation owners meet at Charleston, South Carolina and form the ‘Charleston Congress’, and declare themselves the ‘government’ of the Free Provinces of America.
MAY 22: Confederate Congress spokesman, Samuel Richards meets with the American Home Secretary, Nathaniel Thomas at Richmond, Virginia for talks on a solution to the crisis. A series of talks continues throughout the year.
SEP 10: Troops disperse pro-slavery supporters, gathering outside Government House in Potomac City.
1835
FEB 12: Following a debate on the slavery crisis, the South Carolina Assembly suggests a sharecropping system as a solution to the crisis. Assemblies in other Southern provinces support the ‘South Carolina proposal’.
APR 23: The ‘South Carolina proposal’ is introduced as a bill at the Confederational Assembly.
JUN 7: The Sharecropping Act is passed by both Westminster and the Confederational Assembly, with the Liberal Government in America widely applauded for resolving the crisis. In a letter to King William IV, American Minister, Martin van Buren informs the monarch that: "Your Majesty's dominion of British America remains indivisible." However, despite slavery being outlawed, Sharecropping proves to be little better than slavery. Although they are afforded voting rights by the Confederational Parliaments, Blacks in the Southern Provinces of the CBA have their rights prevented by the introduction of ‘Black Codes’ and literacy tests.
APR 12: The French Chamber of Deputies rejects the proposals of Charles X’s government to change inheritance laws.
APR 16: The decline of Charles X’s popularity amongst the French public is evident with his review of the Garde Royale in the Champ de Mars being met by an ‘icy silence’. Many spectators even refuse to remove their hats.
APR 30: Charles X dissolves the National Guard of Paris, on the grounds of behaving in an “offensive manner towards the crown”.
JUL 25: Charles X signs the Ordinances of Saint-Cloud, suspending the free press, dissolving new deputies and reducing the number of deputies in future assemblies.
JUL 26: News of the Ordinances is published in the Moniteur newspaper. Resentment and anger builds up throughout the day.
JUL 27: Military patrols are established and strengthened throughout Paris. Soldiers and rioting Parisians engage in street battles resulting in 21 civilian deaths.
JUL 29: Revolutionary flags fly over many of Paris’ major locations, with the Tuileries falling to the Revolutionaries at 1.30pm.
AUG 2: Charles X abdicates in favour of his son, Grandson, who is crowned Louis XIX of France. Charles X leaves for life in exile in England. Louis XIX’s reign lasts just 20 minutes before he abdicates in favour of his son Henri V.
AUG 9: The National Assembly decrees that the throne should pass to Henri V’s distant cousin the duc d’Orleans, who is subsequently crowned Louis-Philippe I.
1832
JUN 7: The Civil Reform Act is passed at Westminster extending and reforming the voting franchise.
OCT 18: The American Civil Reform Act is passed in Potomac City, modelled on the Westminster act passed earlier in the year.
1833
AUG 23: The Slavery Abolition Act is passed at Westminster, abolishing all slavery throughout the British Empire. The British government provides £20 million in compensation to the slave owners. Despite this many plantations are no longer profitable and shut down at increasing rates. This in turn affects textile industry in Northern England, reliant on cotton from the plantations of the southern CBA.
AUG 31: A Militia calling themselves the ‘Knights of Liberty’ attack Fort Fletchall in South Carolina, killing 5 soldiers.
SEP 12: The Knights of Liberty lay siege to the Royal Bank of America at Slatyford, Georgia. Staff and Customers are held hostage, before the Knights surrender to troops of the King’s Own Georgian Rangers.
1834
APR 1: Southern plantation owners meet at Charleston, South Carolina and form the ‘Charleston Congress’, and declare themselves the ‘government’ of the Free Provinces of America.
MAY 22: Confederate Congress spokesman, Samuel Richards meets with the American Home Secretary, Nathaniel Thomas at Richmond, Virginia for talks on a solution to the crisis. A series of talks continues throughout the year.
SEP 10: Troops disperse pro-slavery supporters, gathering outside Government House in Potomac City.
1835
FEB 12: Following a debate on the slavery crisis, the South Carolina Assembly suggests a sharecropping system as a solution to the crisis. Assemblies in other Southern provinces support the ‘South Carolina proposal’.
APR 23: The ‘South Carolina proposal’ is introduced as a bill at the Confederational Assembly.
JUN 7: The Sharecropping Act is passed by both Westminster and the Confederational Assembly, with the Liberal Government in America widely applauded for resolving the crisis. In a letter to King William IV, American Minister, Martin van Buren informs the monarch that: "Your Majesty's dominion of British America remains indivisible." However, despite slavery being outlawed, Sharecropping proves to be little better than slavery. Although they are afforded voting rights by the Confederational Parliaments, Blacks in the Southern Provinces of the CBA have their rights prevented by the introduction of ‘Black Codes’ and literacy tests.