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Digital Stroud Timeline
Pre 12001201 - 15001501 - 18001801 - 18501851 - 19001901 - 19501951 - Today

 

1801-1850
1807 Last duel
1814 New turnpike road from Stroud to Cirencester and London
1825 Foundation of Stroud Improvement Commission (first local authority)
1825 Stroudwater Riots (magistrates met at The George, troops quelled riot)
1830 Lawnmower invented by Budding
1832 Stroud became a Parliamentary Borough (2 MPs)
1833 Opening of Subscription Rooms
1833 Gas street lighting
1834 Memorial Arch, Paganhill built commemorating the abolition of slavery
1845 Coming of the railway
1848 First Stroud newspaper
1849 Adoption of Stroud time