1803
Jeremy Bentham (a founder of SA), published a pamphlet titled, A Plea for the Constitution of New South Wales, in which he maintained that agents of the Crown had illegally assumed power over British subjects without authority from the British Parliament.

1817
Robert Owen's new millennium ideas introduced at his New Lanark mill in Scotland

1824
The Canada Company was organised in London as a joint stock company led by John Galt.
Roebuck returns to England from Canada

1825
Reform of the Colonial Office starts
Mass immigration schemes to Canada - (provision for Clergy reserves)
No such reserves were made in South Australia as we were the first colony to be founded with no State aid to Religion
Owen's Edinburgh new town planning and his social experiment at New Harmony in USA

1826
Loudon publishes the Encyclopaedia of gardening

1827
Grosvenor Place Trust Improvement Act allows new town planning
Maslen writes his book Friend of Australia - he advocates belts of parks to surround towns
John Galt plans the towns of Lobo, Goderich and Guelph - the first Canadian inland town, for The Canada Company
These plans included belts of parks, but not surrounding the towns.

1828
Roebuck's ideas for a Public Park Trust - belts of park lands to surround towns - peoples playgrounds - Utilitarian Society debates

1829
Problems with the founding of Swan River, (Perth) Western Australia - no pre-planning of settlement. (Swan River was the first settlement in Australia founded by an Act of Parliament 'authorized' by King George).
The National Colonization Society, formed as a 'think tank' forum to bring about social and political change, brings together the public health pioneers, the green spaces visionaries, education and town planning reformers

1830
King William IV, "the reformer' ascends to the throne - (agitations begin for the reform of Parliament)
Publication of Bentham's Constitutional Code
Royal Geographical Society (RGS) London starts - includes French maritime explorers from Baudin's expedition of 1802-03 as associate members and interviews with Flinders expedition crew members.
April 12th Robert Owen Address on His System delivered at the City of London Tavern
June - The National Colonization Soc meets in the Horticultural Society's Rooms in Regent Street

1831
Prerogatives of the Crown change - the Monarch's powers over Crown Land handed to Parliament through the Privy Council

March - Robert Gouger becomes Secretary of Burdett's Parliamentary Candidate Society.
Other members were Francis Place, Hume, Perry, Roebuck, Daniel Wakefield, E.G. Wakefield, Buller, Rintoul, Chadwick, Beauclerk, Thompson, Graham and John Stuart Mill.
Bentham and Senior both supported the Society.

April 22nd 1831, dissolution of the House of Lords by King William IV