1815—1815: Davy develops the safety lamp for miners
18 Jun 1815—18 Jun 1815: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena
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1816
1816—1816: Income tax abolished
1816—1816: For the first time British silver coins were produced with an intrinsic value substantially
below their face value ? the first official 'token' coinage
1816—1816: Climate: the 'year without a summer' ? followed a volcanic explosion of the mountain 'Tambora in Indonesia the previous year the biggest volcanic explosion in 10000 years
1816—1816: Large scale emigration to North America
1816—1816: Trans-Atlantic packet service begins
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1817
1817—1817: March of the Manchester Blanketeers; Habeas Corpus suspended
1817—1817: Constable painted 'Flatford Mill'
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1818
1818—1818: Manchester cotton spinners' strike
20 Oct 1818—20 Oct 1818: 'Convention of 1818' signed between the United States and the United Kingdom
which, among other things, settled the US-Canada border on the 49th parallel for most of its
length