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23 de may. de 2024 · Peterloo Massacre, in English history, the brutal dispersal by cavalry of a radical meeting held on St. Peter’s Fields in Manchester on August 16, 1819. The “massacre” (likened to Waterloo) attests to the profound fears of the privileged classes of the imminence of violent Jacobin revolution in England in the years after the ...
The Peterloo Massacre took place at St Peter's Field, Manchester, Lancashire, England, on Monday 16 August 1819. It was the largest ever political gathering of working class people. Eighteen people died and 400–700 were injured when cavalry charged into a crowd of around 60,000 people who had gathered to demand the reform of ...
20 de ene. de 2021 · Two hundred years ago, on Monday 16 August 1819, a peaceful gathering in Manchester escalated into an indiscriminate slaughter of innocent civilians. How did this event, known as the ‘Peterloo Massacre’, spin so quickly and wildly out of control? Rotten Boroughs and Political Corruption.
16 de ago. de 2022 · On 16 August 1819, thousands of people gathered in Manchester to take part in a peaceful protest to ask Parliament for a fairer political system and more voting rights. But the day ended in...
La masacre de Peterloo supuso un hecho escandaloso y un mazazo para la sociedad británica. Peterloo se convirtió en uno de los símbolos sobre los que se edificarían en las décadas siguientes las reformas sociales y políticas demandadas por dicha sociedad.
7 de ago. de 2023 · On 16 August 1819 60,000 people congregated in St Peter’s Field in Manchester, with demands for the right to vote, freedom from oppression, and justice. We asked PHM’s Researcher Dr Shirin Hirsch to explain how, despite its peaceful beginning, this was a day that would end with a bloody outcome.
31 de oct. de 2018 · In August 1819, 60,000 people marched peacefully to St Peters Field in central Manchester to hear a speech about electoral reform. The orator, Henry Hunt, addressed the crowd at 2pm – twenty minutes later eighteen were dead or dying and more than six hundred injured.
