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1645 Lords
pass Self-Denying Ordinance.
1649 The House of Commons
pass an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring that it is ''"useless and dangerous to the people of England"''.
1742 Robert Walpole
was elevated to the peerage and thus moved from the House of Commons
to the House of Lords, effectively ending his reign as Prime Minister
of the United Kingdom
(see February 16, above).
1812 Poet
Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
1910 In the United Kingdom
, General Election held in response to House of Lords rejection of the (1909) budget results in reduced Liberal Party
majority (Liberals, 275 seats; Labour
, 40; Irish Nationalists, 82; Unionists (the title then preferred by the British Conservative Party
), 273).
1910 British Prime Minister
Asquith makes second appeal in the same year to the electorate to resolve battle of wills with the House of Lords (Liberals, 272; Labour
, 42; Irish
Nationalists, 84; Unionists, 272 - making a majority of 126 for restriction of the powers of the Lords and for Irish Home Rule).
1913 House of Lords rejects Irish Home Rule Bill
1914 The House of Lords completed the recasting of the Amendment Bill.
1956 British House of Lords defeats the abolition of death penalty.
1966 Lord Gardiner issues the Practice Statement in the House of Lords, stating that the House is not bound to follow its own previous precedent.
2004 The House of Lords rules that the British Government breaches human rights
legislation by detaining without trial foreign nationals suspected of being terrorists.
2005 In the UK
, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is finally given Royal Assent
after one of the longest ever sittings by the House of Lords.
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