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1796  More treason trials; leading radicals emigrate. *The Two Bills  
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1796  Wolfe Tone arrives in France. *Ireland
*French Revolution  
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1796  Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian victories. *French Revolution  
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1796  Commons narrowly defeats abolition. The Dolben act is not renewed because of oversight. British troops retake slave islands from French. *Abolition  
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1796  W. Wordsworth composes The Borderers. A Tragedy mostly between fall 1796 and spring 1797, culminating in the Early Version of 1799 (the first surviving manuscript of the complete play). *Romantic Drama  
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1796  Thomas Paine, The Age Of Reason (Part II) and Agrarian Justice.  
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1796  Frances Burney, Camilla.  
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1796  Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant.  
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1796  Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art  
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1796  Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk *The Gothic  
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1796  Goethe, Wilhelm Meister (Pt. I).  
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1796  Denis Diderot, Jacques le fataliste.  
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1796  Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney.  
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1796  Charlotte Smith, Marchmont.  
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1796  Elizabeth Hamilton, Letters of a Hindoo Rajah.  
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RecID: 1893
1796  Beethoven, Sonatas in F major and G minor, Op. 5; Adelaide, Op. 46. He also tours Prague, Dresden, Leipzig, and Berlin.  
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1796  Charlotte Smith, Rambles Farther: a continuation of Rural Walks . . . for the use of Young Persons (juvenile fiction, in dialogues)  
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Jan 9, 1796  Coleridge tours the Midlands to sell The Watchman. He gives "sermons" (i.e., political lectures, sometimes wearing black like a priest: "Preaching spread a sort of sanctity over my Sedition".  
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Feb 6, 1796  John Binns and John Gale Jones, missionary delegates from the London Corresponding Society, are sent to rural reform societies to explain how to evade and not challenge the "Gagging Acts" or "Two Bills." *Radicalism
*The Two Bills  
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Feb 24, 1796  Edmund Burke, "A Letter to a Noble Lord": Burke's virtuosic answer to the Duke of Bedford, who attacked him for having accepted a large pension from the King.  
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Mar 1796  The Insurrection Act (curfews, arms searches, the death penalty for oath taking).  
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Mar 1, 1796  Coleridge, The Watchman, first issue. It runs until 13 May, 1796. Motto: "That All may know the TRUTH / And that the TRUTH may make us FREE!"  
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Mar 11, 1796  John Binns and John Gale Jones are arrested and imprisoned in Birmingham; Francis Place is sent to defend them; they will be tried for violating the "Two Bills" (for the government and the radicals, a test case). Binns is acquitted in Aug. 1800, but Jones is convicted of sedition in April 1799, although never sentenced. The cost of defending them, bail, and the missions themselves contribute to downfall of the London Corresponding Society. *Radicalism
*The Two Bills  
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Apr 16, 1796  Coleridge, Poems on Various Subjects.  
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July 1, 1796  London Corresponding Society's Moral and Political Magazine is published monthly until May 1797.  
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July 21, 1796  Robert Burns dies in Dumfries, Dumfriesshire.  
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Aug 21, 1796  William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft become lovers.  
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Sept 1796  Ireland: United Irish leaders arrested in Belfast. *Ireland  
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Sept 19, 1796  Hartley Coleridge born (see Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Frost at Midnight").  
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Dec 1796  Coleridge moves to Nether Stowey.  
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Dec 1796  Failed attempt by French (with Wolfe Tone) to invade Ireland at Bantry Bay, West Cork. *French Revolution
*Ireland  
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1797  Napoleon negotiates treaty with Austria  
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1797  Commons rejects abolition. The Dolben act is renewed. A West Indian-sponsored parliamentary resolution for colonial amelioration of slavery is passed. Trinidad is captured; the British withdraw troops from the West Indies (they are pushed from St. Domingue by Tousaint L'Ouverture). *Abolition  
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1797  Tax on English newspapers (including cheap, topical journals) is increased to repress radical publications. *Radicalism  
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1797  W. Wordsworth's intimacy with Coleridge spurs poetic activity (annus mirabilis).  
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1797  Coleridge drafts Osorio which remains unpublished until revised 1812 as Remorse. *Romantic Drama  
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1797  Friedrich von Schlegel, Critical Fragments (in the journal Lyceum).  
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1797  Schelling, Ideas on the Philosophy of Nature.  
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1797  Hölderlin, Hyperion I.  
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1797  A new edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts with pictures engraved by William Blake  

 

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