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Events on Thursday 23 March 1815 1
1815Corn Laws Enacted in BritainProtectionist grain tariffs imposedThe British Parliament passed the Corn Laws, imposing tariffs on imported grain to protect domestic landowners from falling prices after the Napoleonic Wars. The laws raised the cost of bread and provoked decades of political controversy until their repeal in 1846.