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• Anti-Corn-Law Association was founded. A lecture tour began around Manchester, with little success

• Manchester opted for incorporation under the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. Many members of the Anti-Corn-Law Association were elected to the council
• Anti-Corn-Law Associations were formed at Leeds, Liverpool, Blackburn, Preston and Huddersfield
• The Anti-Corn-Law Association changed its name to the Anti-Corn-Law League

• J.B. Smith, President of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, lost the Walsall by-election by only 27 votes
• Villiers presented the Anti-Corn-Law League petition for repeal to the Commons. It failed.

• Cobden and four other free traders won seats in parliament at the general election
• Peel formed his second ministry and made a speech on the Corn Laws
• the Non-conformist Churches were won over by the Anti-Corn-Law League

• The Manchester Operatives' Anti-Corn-Law Association attracted many Chartists to the League
• Peel's Budget introduced lower tariffs and a new, more effective sliding scale

• The Anti-Corn-Law League set up an office in London, to capture the capital's wealth and support.
• The Anti-Corn-Law League began to appeal to tenant farmers, with some moderate success. Consequently the Anti-League was set up; it attacked the Anti-Corn-Law League.
• The Anti-Corn-Law League set up Registration Societies
• Pattison, a free trader, won a London by-election

• 12 March - Cobden's famous speech in parliament. Peel was unable to answer, and left Sidney Herbert to answer for him
• the Irish Potato Famine began

• Repeal of the Corn Laws. Peel gave the credit for repeal to Cobden

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