Timeline Tuesday 8 May 1838

Events on Tuesday 8 May 1838 1

• 1838 The People's Charter Launches the Chartist Movement London radicals publish a six-point program for political reform The London Working Men's Association published the People's Charter, demanding universal male suffrage, secret ballots, and annual parliaments among six core reforms. The document became the founding manifesto of Chartism, Britain's first mass working-class political movement. Chartist petitions to Parliament over the following decade drew millions of signatures.