Date	Event	Topics
Edit RecID: 62	1785	Warren Hastings returns from India to England; Governor-Generals Cornwallis and Wellesley take over.	*India
Edit RecID: 63	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
Edit RecID: 64	1785	William Pitt the Younger introduces Bill for Parliamentary reform, which seems to bode well for the future of the reform movement.	*Parliamentary Reform
Edit RecID: 65	1785	Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrolls more than 2 million).
Edit RecID: 66	1785	William Cowper, The Task
Edit RecID: 67	1785	Della Crusca (Robert Merry), The Florence Miscellany
Edit RecID: 511	1785	Sir William Jones, "A Hymn to Na'ra'yena."
Edit RecID: 512	1785	James Boswell, Tour to the Hebrides.
Edit RecID: 513	1785	William Paley, Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy (challenges scriptural and economic justifications; advocates gradual emancipation and abolition).	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 49	1786	Warren Hastings, Memoirs Relative to the State of India	*India *Colonialism
Edit RecID: 514	1786	Hannah More, "The Bas Bleu; or Conversation" (brings into public notice the "bluestockings"; a circle of intellectual women).
Edit RecID: 515	1786	Robert Burns, Poems Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect.	*Scotland
Edit RecID: 516	1786	William Beckford, Vathek.	*The Gothic
Edit RecID: 517	1786	Thomas Clarkson, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species argues for abolition.	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 519	1786	Antonio Sacchini, Oedipe à Colone (Versailles; in Vienna 1802)
Edit RecID: 520	1786	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro (Vienna).
Edit RecID: 518	1786 - 1787	John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery exhibits pictures of actors performing in Shakespeare's plays.
Edit RecID: 53	1786 - 1794	Impeachment proceedings against Warren Hastings.	*India
Edit RecID: 2311	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."
Edit RecID: 521	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
Edit RecID: 523	1787	Mozart, Don Giovanni (Prague).
Edit RecID: 524	1787	Antonio Salieri, Tarare.
Edit RecID: 1807	1787	Lord George Gordon (namesake of the 1780 Gordon Riots) converts to Judaism.	*Anglo-Jewish History
Edit RecID: 1808	1787	Lord George Gordon is arrested for libel in London's Jewish Quarter and imprisoned in the Tower.
Edit RecID: 2312	1787	William Wordsworth composes most of The Vale of Esthwaite in spring and summer of this year.