The Bristol Riots of 1831 take place…
October 1831 CE
Bristol had been represented in the House of Commons since 1295, but by 1830 only six thousand of the population of one hundred and four thousand have the vote.
Local magistrate Sir Charles Wetherell, a strong opponent of the Bill, visits Bristol to open the new Assize Courts on October 29.
He threatens to imprison participants in a disturbance going on outside, and an angry mob chases him to the Mansion House in Queen Square.
The magistrate escapes in disguise but the mayor and officials are besieged in the Mansion House.