A People's Calendar
A People's Calendar (aPC) is an open-source project that seeks to promote the worldwide history of working class movements and liberation struggles in the form of a searchable "On This Day" style calendar.
Event of the Day
Tolpuddle Martyrs Arrested (1834)Feb 24th, 1834
On this day in 1834, six workers in the English village of Tolpuddle were arrested and sentenced to penal labor in Australia after forming a union. Their case became a cause célèbre for the working class, and the men were pardoned.
Image: A contemporary illustration of the Martyrs, 1838