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BURNS, William

BURNS, William

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   Date  Event(s)
1 1844 
  • 1844: Charles Darwin wrote, but didn't publish, an essay presaging the theory of the origin of species.
  • 1844: Samuel Finley Breese Morse demonstrates a telegraph, using a code of his own invention
  • 1844: Parliament passes the Bank Charter Act. Foundation of the Rochdale Co-Operative Society and the Royal Commission on the Health of Towns
  • 1844: Two years of railway mania begins across Britain. Massive investment and speculation leads to the laying of 5,000 miles of track
2 1845 
  • 1845: Irish Potato Famine kills more than a million people in two years
  • 1845: Engels publishes 'The Condition of the Working Class in England'
  • 1845: There are reckoned to be 210 accountants in London

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