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RecID: 796 |
1799 |
Commons rejects abolition. Commons passes an African slave coast restriction act. Lords narrowly rejects it. Commons passes a stricter slave-carrying act that narrowly clears the Lords. Sugar prices begin to decline. Britain conquers Surinam. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 797 |
1799 |
William Wordsworth writes the "Two-Part
Prelude" of 1799 (corresponding roughly to books
I and II of the later full Prelude together with the Gibbet Mast and Blasted Hawthorn "spots of time"), "There Was a Boy," "Nutting," "Lucy Gray" and the "Lucy poems," the "Matthew" poems, and many poems for the 1800 volume of Lyrical Ballads. Most of these poems were composed while W. lived with Dorothy Wordsworth in Goslar, Germany, from the latter part of 1798 through the first part of 1799. |
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RecID: 798 |
1799 |
Goethe, Die Propyläe. |
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RecID: 799 |
1799 |
Herder, Understanding and Experience. A Metacritique on the Critique of Pure Reason. |
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RecID: 800 |
1799 |
Hölderlin, Hyperion II. |
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RecID: 801 |
1799 |
Novalis, Die Christenheit, oder Europa. |
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RecID: 802 |
1799 |
F. Schlegel, Lucinde. |
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RecID: 803 |
1799 |
Mary Hays, The Victim of Prejudice. |
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RecID: 804 |
1799 |
Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Education. |
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RecID: 805 |
1799 |
Mary Alcock, Poetical Writer (published posthumously by Joanna Hughs). |
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RecID: 806 |
1799 |
Charles Lloyd slanders Mary Hays, accusing her of improprieties; Coleridge, Lamb, Southey, and Godwin enter the fray. |
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RecID: 807 |
1799 |
William Pitt advocates union between Britain and Ireland. |
*Ireland |
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RecID: 1856 |
1799 |
Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions, Vol. I, second edition. |
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RecID: 1945 |
1799 |
Haydn, two String Quartets, Op. 77. |
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RecID: 1898 |
1799 - 1800 |
Beethoven, First Symphony (C major), Op. 21; Setptet in E flat major, Op. 20. |
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RecID: 1944 |
Mar 19, 1799 |
Haydn's oratorio The Creation performed for the first time. |
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RecID: 808 |
Apr 21, 1799 |
Dorothy and William Wordsworth return to England from Germany. |
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RecID: 809 |
May 1799 |
Blake exhibits his painting The Last Supper at the Royal Academy. |
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RecID: 810 |
May 23, 1799 |
Thomas Hood born in London. |
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RecID: 811 |
July 29, 1799 |
Coleridge returns to Nether Stowey. |
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RecID: 812 |
Oct 1799 - Nov 1799 |
W. Wordsworth and Coleridge go on walking tour of the Lake District. |
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RecID: 813 |
Oct 26, 1799 |
Coleridge meets Sara Hutchinson, whose sister (Mary Hutchinson) W. Wordsworth will marry in 1802. |
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RecID: 814 |
Nov 9, 1799 |
Bonaparte's Coup of 18 Brumaire: Napoleon overthrows the Directory, becomes the First Consul of France, effectively ending the French Revolution. |
*French Revolution |
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RecID: 815 |
Dec 20, 1799 |
William and Dorothy Wordsworth settle into Dove Cottage, Townend, Grasmere. |
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RecID: 817 |
1800 |
No motion is made for abolition. Curacao is captured. |
*Abolition |