Civilisation anglaise

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civi anglaise

1714-1837
Hanover - George I - 1727
-> Hanoverian

-> Jacobite rebellions : 1715 - 1745
Georges II 1727 - 1760 (dementia)
Georges III 1760 - 1820
1810 - 1820 Regency Prince Regent
Georges IV 1820 - 1830
-> Brother
William IV 1830 - 1837
-> 64 yo
Victoria 1837 - 1876

Foreing Policy & Colonial expansion
Seven Years War : 1756 - 1763
Brit & Prussia VS France & Spain.
- N. America, S. America, India, West Africa .. "13 colonies" ; "French & Indian War"
        1763 - Treaty of Paris
American Independance War
Triangular trade
French Revolutionnary War 1793 - 1801
Napoleonic War 1802 - 1815
Trafalgar Battle 1805
Waterloo 1815
Dissolution of Irish parliament 1800
Act of Union 1801

1714 - 1837 : Indice - moghul Empire
        -> East India Company   - Its own
                                - Could raise taxes        } Governor general
                                - could sign treaties                Bi parliament

1807 Abolution of slave trade        - humanitarian
                                - Economic
Explanation of the Pacific ( New South Wales)

The victorian era 1837 - 1901

I - The Empire
        A/ India 1857

Indian muting.
During 2 years, there were a lot of social unrest (1st in the army, then in the civilian populztion)

Theu supresed the East Indian company.
        The British government takes control of India -> The British Raj (Viceroy of India)
-> Act like the king of India.
India is very important to the British

        B/ South Africa

The English weren't the only ones that colonized South Africa
S.A speaks Afrikaans
1877 - annexation of the Britishs.
Transvaal, Orange Free state -> White colonies
"Boer Wars"

        C/ Africa

Source of Nile
David Livingstone
1849 - Kalahari Desert
1851 - 56 - crossed the Continent
1855 - Victoria Falls
Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness

        D/ Ireland

1801 - Act of Union -> Westminster (London)
Seaserus Heaney "Act of Union"
MP - Land owners
        -> "Absente landlords"
1845 - potato blight (Wheat, potatoes)
        they use Wheat to pay their rent.

Census :         1841 : 8M peoples
                 1851 : 4.5M peoples
        -> Starvation; emigration
"Irish Famine"

II - Social condition

* "The poor law" -> Parishes
"Laziness" ; "idleness"
1834 - Poor law amendment Act
        -> creation : "Workhouses" , "Poorhouses"
Charles Dickens - Olivier Twist 1837-39
* Reform?
Chartist movement 1838 - 1848
        -> vote H > 21
        secret ballet
        no proprety qualification to become member of parlement
        annual election
        equal constituencies
        

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