Chronological Estimate

 Of the Fall and Rise of Popular Liberty, especially in England, beginning with that conquest under which England is still degraded.

1066 (Vulgar era)—William (the Norman) conquered England, parcelled its lands among his soldiers, and introduced a corrupt Clergy, under which tyranny in England has had a gradual growth.
1116—First Parliaments of Lords and Commons; nothing but a Parliament of the Representatives of the people, the Commons, or Wittenagemote, having been previously known in England.
1185— Ireland subdued by the new tyranny introduced into England.
1304—Scotland reduced by Edward I.
1304—First blow at the Clergy ; Wickliffe began the Reformation.
1492— Columbus discovered America.
1584— Virginia discovered by Sir Walter Raleigh, a new Colony founded,and an asylum formed for the new martyrs to religious persecution.
1600— Commons of England begin to wrestle with the power of the King and the Lords.
1640— The Established Church and House of Lords abolished, and the King (Charles I.)beheaded, within fifty years.
1660— Oliver Cromwell Protector, the Commonwealth destroyed, and Charles II. restored, for want of Annual Parliaments. Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot.
1679— The Habeas Corpus Act passed.
1688—A bad exchange of Kings—William for James ; falsely called a Glorious Revolution.
1782— Thomas Paine born.
1775— First budding of Republicanism, since the conquest of England, In the Colonies formed in North America.
1776— "Common Sense," by Thomas Paine, first published, and the Independence of America
1783— End or the Eight Years' War with the American Colonies, and dawn of the Question of Reform in England.
1780— First symptoms of Revolution in France ; the Bastille taken and destroyed by the people of Paris.
1782— "Rights of Man," preparatory to Reform in England, written and published by Thomas Paine.
1793— King and Queen of France beheaded, and a Republic declared.
1796 —The French Republic destroyed by Political Clubs, for the want of Annual Parliaments, Universal Suffrage, and Vote by Ballot, after the French arms had been every where successful.
1799— Napoleon Buonaparte declared First Consul for Life, after a succession of executive abortions without legislative representation of the French people.
1809—Thomas Paine died.
1815—Military despotism of France, for fifteen years, under Napoleon Buonaparte, ended with the battle of Waterloo.
—— Napoleon Buonaparte banished to the Island of St. Helena, where he died, 1822.
1830— New struggles for Reform in England, produce an Administration pledged to Reform,
——— The bourbons restored to France, and supported by foreign bayonets, grow in tyranny and insolence, and produce their second expulsion by the People of Paris, in the three glorious days of July. The liberty of France still not secured for want of Annual Parliaments, Universal suffrage, and Vote by Ballot.
1831 —A Reform Bill, introduced by the English Administration on the 1st of March, struggles through the House of Commons until tho middle of September, and is thrown out of the House of Lords on the 8th of October, twenty-one Bishops giving the casting vote.

Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston, 1835, ) http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65951086