Timeline March 1834

Events in March 1834 2

• 1834 Tolpuddle Martyrs Convicted and Sentenced to Transportation Dorset farm labourers sentenced for forming a union Six Dorset farm labourers were convicted under an obscure law for administering secret oaths after forming a friendly society to resist wage cuts. They were sentenced to seven years of transportation to Australia. The case became a rallying point for the British trade union movement, and the men were later pardoned.
• 1834 US Senate Censures President Andrew Jackson Censure over removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States The United States Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for removing federal deposits from the Bank of the United States without congressional authorization. It was the first, and at the time only, censure of a sitting American president. The Senate expunged the censure from its records three years later after Jackson's allies regained a majority.