by Michael Turner | 14 October 18 | 1800-1810, Historical events
The law that abolished the slave trade entered the statute books of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on the 25 March 1807. This made it illegal to engage in the slave trade in the British Colonies. Despite this trafficking, between the Caribbean...
by Michael Turner | 13 October 18 | 1800-1810
The Battle of Trafalgar 21 October 1805 A famous battle indeed. Won under the leadership of Admiral Lord Nelson who lost his life in the battle. Nevertheless the British fleet with twenty seven ships of the line with six others defeated the combined forces of the...
by Michael Turner | 13 October 18 | 1800-1810
The Acts of Union 1801 was an agreement that united England, Scotland and Ireland under the name of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.