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8. 00
| About 6,000 reformers at Middleton assemble to hear a speech from Samuel Bamford. |
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8. 30
| The 15th Hussars parade in Manchester. |
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9. 00
| Oldham Reform groups begin march to Manchester. |
| Cheshire Yeomanry assemble on Sale Moor. Begin march to their agreed position at St. John Street. |
| First people begin to gather at St. Peter's Field. |
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10. 00
| The 15th Hussars take up their positions in Byrom and Lower Mosley Streets. |
| Magistrates meet at the Star Inn. |
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10. 30
| George Swift and a group of men start erecting the hustings. |
| John Tyas of The Times estimates the crowd to be about 250 people. |
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11. 00
| Magistrates move to Mr. Buxton's house in Mount Street overlooking St. Peter's Field. |
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11. 30
| An estimated 5,000 marchers from Stockport arrive at St. Peter's Field. |
| Members of the Manchester & Salford Yeomanry seen drinking in nearby public houses. |
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Midday
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| Henry Hunt and a large number of reformers leave Joseph Johnson's Smedley Cottage. |
| John Tyas of The Times estimates that there is now 80,000 people in St. Peter's Field. |
| George Swift and Robert Wild address the crowd. |
| About 400 constables march into St. Peter's Field. They form two continuos lines between the hustings |
| and Mr. Buxton's house. |
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12. 30
| Another cart, with planks and a large chair, is brought forward and added to the hustings. |
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1. 20
| Henry Hunt, Richard Carlile, John Knight, Joseph Johnson and Mary Fildes arrive at the hustings. |
| Elizabeth Gaunt is taken ill in the crowd and is lifted onto the hustings. |
| John Tyas of The Times, Edward Baines of the Leeds Mercury and John Smith of the Liverpool |
| Mercury join the speakers on the hustings. |
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1. 30
| Joseph Moorhouse from Stockport arrives at the hustings. |
| Magistrates decided to arrest Henry Hunt, John Knight, Joseph Johnson and John Moorhouse. |
| Messages are sent to Major Thomas Trafford and Colonel L'Estrange. |
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1. 35
| Rev. Charles Ethelston reads the Riot Act from Mr. Buxton's window. |
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1. 40
| Henry Hunt begins to address the crowd. |
| Blackburn reform group arrives at St. Peter's Field. |
| The Manchester & Salford Yeomanry knock down Ann Fildes and her two-year old son William, on |
| the way to St. Peter's Field. William Fildes is killed and his mother is badly injured. |
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1. 45
| Major Trafford orders Captain Birley and the Yeomanry to arrest the four leaders on the hustings. |
| Richard Carlile, John Smith and Edward Baines see the Yeomanry approaching and leave the hustings. |
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1. 50
| Colonel L'Estrange and the 15th Hussars are ordered to rescue the Yeomanry from the crowd. |
| Captain Birley arrests Hunt, Johnson, Swift, Knight, Saxton, Moorhouse, Tyas, Gaunt and Wild. |
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2.00
| Except for the dead and wounded the crowd have left St. Peter's Field. |
