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Events on Monday 4 November 1839 1
1839Newport RisingChartists stage an armed uprising in WalesSeveral thousand Chartist supporters marched on Newport, Wales, intending to seize the town and spark a wider rising for political reform. British troops met the marchers at the Westgate Hotel and opened fire, killing more than twenty people. The rising's leaders, including John Frost, were later sentenced to transportation.