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- SOME USEFUL DATES
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- 1538 Parish registers instituted
- 1561 Bishop's Transcripts started
- 1598 Bishop's Transcripts required
- 1642 Civil war started
- 1660 Restoration
- 1662 Hearth tax; till 1689
- 1665 Great plague of London
- 1733 Latin finally abolished as official language
- 1752 Calender reformed; September 3rd to 13th 1752 do not exist
- 1754 Hardwicke's marriage act (printed forms for marriages)
- 1812 Rose's act (printed forms for baptisms and deaths)
- 1837 General registration started in England; July
- 1841 Census : June 6th
- 1851 Census: March 30th
- 1855 General registration started in Scotland
- 1858 Wills and Probate records centralised at Somerset House
- 1861 Census: April 7th
- 1864 General registration started in Ireland
- 1871 Census: April 2nd
- 1881 Census: April 3rd
- 1882 Married woman's property act
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