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Details for:
Barnard, H. C. (1961). A History of English Education From 1760. 2nd edition. London: University of London Press Ltd
events
Events:
218 events from this source recorded
1382
Winchester School established
1440
Eton established
1567
Rugby School established
1662
Act of Uniformity
1712
Birth of Rousseau
1733
Birth of Priestley
1737
'Circulating schools' started
1744
Birth of Edgeworth
1748
birth of Day
1757
Warrington Academy
1760
Anderson starts evening classes at Glasgow
1761
Death of Griffith Jones
1762
Rousseau's 'Emile'
1763
La Chalotais' "Essai d' Éducation"
1764
Priestley becomes LL.D.
1765
Priestley's "Essay"
1766
Priestley elected F.R.S.
1768
d'Erceville's "Compe Rendu"
1771
birth of von Fellenberg
1771
birth of Owen
1774
Pestalozzi tries to run farm and opens school at Neuhof
1774
Birth of Butler
1776
Smith's "Wealth of Nations"
1776
Birth of Birkbeck
1778
Birth of Brougham
1778
Death of Rousseau
1778
Priestley's "Observations Relating to Education"
1782
Birth of Froebel
1785
Sunday School society formed
1789
death of Day
1790
Owen becomes cotton spinner in Manchester
1792
Birth of Wilderspin
1793
Birth of Stow
1794
birth of Whewell
1795
Birth of Arnold
1798
Swiss government ask Pestalozzi to open school
1798
The Edgeworths' "Practical Education"
1798
Butler appointed headmaster of Shrewsbury
1799
Pestalozzi takes charge of infant school
1799
von Fellenberg opens school at Hofwyl
1799
Owen buys cotton mills in New Lanark
1799
Birkbeck starts lectures at Glasgow
1800
Royal Institution founded
1802
Health and Morals of Apprentices Bill passed
1803
Lancaster's "Improvements in Education"
1804
Birth of Kennedy
1804
birth of Kay
1804
Death of Priestley
1805
Pestalozzi in charge of school at Yverdon
1805
Trimmer's attack on Lancaster
1805
Birth of Maurice
1806
Birth of J S Mill
1807
"Parochial Schools Bill"
1809
Edgeworth's "Professional Education"
1810
Royal Lancastrian Association formed
1811
National Society formed
1813
Owen's "A New View of Society"
1814
Wordsworth's last 2 books of the "Excursion"
1814
British and Foreign School Society formed
1815
Select Committee on child labour
1815
Death of Whitbread
1816
Stow sets up Sunday school
1816
Parliamentary committee looks at education of 'lower orders'
1817
Death of Edgeworth
1818
Owen meets Pestalozzi
1818
Committee opens school in Westminster
1818
Factory Act passed
1818
Arnold ordained
1819
Hill opens school in Birmingham
1819
Factory Act becomes law
1819
Arnold leaves Oxford
1819
Birth of Ruskin
1820
Committee opens school in Spitalfields
1820
Brougham's Parish Schools Bill
1820
Birth of Spencer
1821
Birth of Thring
1822
Birth of Matthew Arnold
1823
Wilderspin's "On the Importance of Educating the Infant Children of the Poor"
1823
Anderson lectures become Mechanics Institute
1823
Birkbeck helps in setting up of Mechanics Institute in London
1823
Clergy Daughters' School founded
1824
Foundation of London Infant School Society
1825
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge founded
1825
Campbell's letter to The Times
1825
Brougham's "Practical Observations"
1825
Birth of Huxley
1826
Glasgow Infant School Society opened
1827
Headmastership at Rugby becomes vacant
1828
Arnold starts as headmaster at Rugby
1828
College opened in Gower Street
1828
Meeting to discuss alternative to London University
1829
Owen withdrew from cotton mill business
1830
Petition to incorporate University of London
1831
King's College, London opened
1831
Birth of Beale
1832
Reform Act passes in British parliament
1833
Hill's school moves to Tottenham
1833
First British parliamentary grant for education
1833
Government investigation into education provision in Britain
1835
Kay becomes Poor Law Commissioner
1836
Home and Colonial Infant School Society formed
1836
Glasgow Normal Seminary opened
1836
Kennedy headmaster of Shrewsbury
1836
University of London granted charter
1836
Normal School of Design grant
1838
Arnold resigns from Senate of University of London
1839
Death of Butler
1839
Central admin authority set up in Britain
1840
Grammar Schools Act passed
1840
Battersea Normal School opens
1840
Maurice becomes a C of E clergyman
1841
Arnold Modern History professor at Oxford
1841
Death of Birkbeck
1841
St. Mark's college founded
1841
Cheltenham College founded
1842
Death of Arnold
1842
Government grant to Norwood school
1843
Graham's Factory Bill
1843
Governesses' Benevolent Institution founded
1844
death of von Fellenberg
1845
Whewell's "Of a Liberal Education in General"
1845
Royal College of Chemistry opened
1846
Hook's "Education of the People"
1846
Committee of Council on Education scheme announced
1846
Thring ordained
1846
College of Perceptors founded
1847
Grant for Kay-Shuttleworth's training scheme
1848
Post-grad science tripos introduced at Cambridge
1848
Grant for Kay-Shuttleworth's training scheme
1848
Queen's College founded
1849
Kay retires
1849
Bedford College founded
1849
College of Perceptors incorporated
1850
National Public Schools Association founded
1850
Education Bill introduced to British Parliament
1851
School of Mines and Science established
1851
Arnold works as Schools Inspector
1851
College opens in Manchester
1852
Death of Froebel
1853
Cheltenham Ladies' College founded
1854
Spencer's magazine articles
1854
Working Men's College founded
1854
Froebel disciple starts Kindergarten
1856
Order to establish Education Department
1858
death of Owen
1858
New charter for London University
1858
Newcastle Commission
1858
Oxford and Cambridge local exams for secondary school first given
1858
Thring examiner at Cambridge
1858
Beale becomes headmistress of Cheltenham's Ladies' College
1859
Lowe becomes Vice-President of Education Department
1859
Mill's "On Liberty"
1861
BFSS female teacher training facility moves to Stockwell
1861
Clarendon chairs Royal Commission
1861
Arnold's "Popular Education in France"
1861
Spencer's "Education - Intellectual, Moral and Physical"
1862
Revised Code document
1862
Attempt to open London University to women
1863
Arnold starts to criticise Revised Code
1864
Death of Stow
1864
Clarendon Commission report published
1864
Taunton Commission
1864
Arnold's "A French Eton"
1864
Thring's "Education and School"
1866
Death of Wilderspin
1866
death of Whewell
1867
2nd Reform Act passed
1867
J S Mill's "Inaugural Address"
1868
Death of Brougham
1868
Public Schools Act passed
1868
Taunton Commission report published
1868
Arnold's "Higher Schools and Universities in Germany"
1869
Endowed Schools Act passed
1869
Headmasters conference at Uppingham
1869
Woman-only Cambridge University exam
1869
Women's college started at Hitchen
1870
Education Act passed
1870
Forster introduces Education Bill
1870
Duke of Devonshire Commission
1870
National Union of Elementary Teachers formed
1872
Death of Maurice
1873
Death of J S Mill
1873
College at Hitchen moves to Girton
1873
1st professorship in education in England
1874
Factory Act passed
1874
Froebel Society founded
1875
Newnham College opened
1876
Uppingham relocated to Borth
1876
1st university chairs of education in the UK
1877
death of Kay
1877
Livery Companies of London committee
1879
Teachers' Training Syndicate founded
1879
Headmistresses association founded
1880
Hogg's polytechnic moves to Regent St.
1883
Thring's "Theory and Practice of Teaching"
1883
Finsbury Technical College opened
1883
Independent Schools Association founded
1884
Royal Commission on Technical Instruction report published
1884
Association of assistant mistresses
1885
Cambridge Training College for Women founded
1886
Royal Commission on elementary education appointed
1887
Death of Thring
1888
Death of Matthew Arnold
1888
Cross Commission issues reports
1889
NUET drops Elementary from title
1890
BFSS teacher training facility moves to Isleworth
1890
Day training colleges established in British universities
1890
Headmasters' Association founded
1891
Association of assitant masters founded
1894
Royal Commission on Secondary Education appointed
1895
Death of Huxley
1895
Royal Commission on Secondary Education's report
1900
Death of Ruskin
1902
Education Act
1903
HCISS moves to Wood Green
1903
Death of Spencer
1906
Death of Beale
1961
2nd edition of Barnard's "History of English Education"