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1785 |
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Warren Hastings returns from India to England; Governor-Generals Cornwallis and
Wellesley take over. |
*India |
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1785 |
Ireland: First meeting of Irish Academy (Royal Irish Academy from 1786 on). Bill to regulate Anglo-Irish trade, adapted from William Pitt (the Younger)'s original free-trade proposals, introduced at College Green but later
abandoned. |
*Ireland |
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1785 |
William Pitt the Younger introduces Bill for Parliamentary reform, which seems to bode well for the future of the reform movement. |
*Parliamentary Reform |
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1785 |
Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrolls more than 2 million). |
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1785 |
William Cowper, The Task |
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1785 |
Della Crusca (Robert Merry), The Florence Miscellany |
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1785 |
Sir William Jones, "A Hymn to Na'ra'yena." |
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1785 |
James Boswell, Tour to the Hebrides. |
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1785 |
William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (challenges scriptural and economic justifications; advocates gradual emancipation and abolition). |
*Abolition |
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1786 |
Warren Hastings, Memoirs Relative to the State of India |
*India
*Colonialism |
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1786 |
Hannah More, "The Bas Bleu; or Conversation" (brings into public notice the "bluestockings";
a circle of intellectual women). |
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1786 |
Robert Burns, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. |
*Scotland |
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1786 |
William Beckford, Vathek.
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*The Gothic |
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1786 |
Thomas Clarkson, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species argues for abolition. |
*Abolition |
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1786 |
Antonio Sacchini, Oedipe à Colone (Versailles; in Vienna 1802) |
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1786 |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro (Vienna). |
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1786 - 1787 |
John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery exhibits pictures of actors performing in Shakespeare's plays. |
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1786 - 1794 |
Impeachment proceedings against Warren Hastings. |
*India |
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June 12, 1786 |
The Rev. William Taylor, schoolmaster at Hawkshead School (attended by William Wordsworth), dies at age 32. The epitaph on his tombstone in Cartmel Priory, which Wordsworth later mentions at a pivotal moment in The Prelude, 10.495-99, is adapted from the last four lines of Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." |
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1787 |
Formation of a Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade in London and some provincial cities. Thomas Clarkson travels to get evidence on the trade. William Pitt the Younger and William Wilberforce attempt to initiate an Anglo-French suspension of the slave trade. |
*Abolition |
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1787 |
Mozart, Don Giovanni (Prague). |
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1787 |
Antonio Salieri, Tarare. |
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1787 |
Lord George Gordon (namesake of the 1780 Gordon Riots) converts to Judaism. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
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1787 |
Lord George Gordon is arrested for libel in London's Jewish Quarter and imprisoned in the Tower. |
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1787 |
William Wordsworth composes most of The Vale of Esthwaite in spring and summer of this year. |
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