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Date
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Event
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Topics
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1792 |
India: Treaty of Seringapatam..
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*India |
| Details |
1792 |
Reform: violence in France; repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press). Fox gets Libel Act through Parliament; the act requires a jury and not a judge to determine libel (this act saves reformers in 1794). |
*French Revolution
*Parliamentary Reform |
| Details |
1792 |
Mass petition compaign for abolition. Commons resolves on gradual abolition by 1796. Lords delay action in favor of preliminary hearings. Boycott of sugar begins. French Revolution begins to affect mass agitation. Sierra Leone settlement renewed. Denmark decrees gradual abolition by
1803. |
*Abolition
*French Revolution |
| Details |
1792 |
Ireland: Catholic Relief Act allows Catholics to practice law. Wolfe Tone appointed to the Catholic Committee. |
*Ireland |
| Details |
1792 |
William Blake, "Motto to the Songs of Innocence and of Experience" (dated 1792). |
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1792 |
Charlotte Smith, Desmond. |
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| Details |
1792 |
Friedrich von Schiller, On the Ground of Pleasure in the Tragic Object. |
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| Details |
1792 |
Abolition: Coleridge, his Greek Sapphic Ode "Ode on the Slave Trade," written during freshman year at Cambridge. |
*Abolition |
| Details |
1792 |
Abolition: Edmund Burke, Sketch of a Negro Code (proposes a plan
for orderly abolition and emancipation). |
*Abolition |
| Details |
1792 |
Religious Controversy: Mary Hays, Cursory Remarks on an Enquiry into the Expediency and Propriety of Public or Social Worship (vs. Gilbert Wakefield, signed "Eusebia"). |
*Methodism
*Religious Controversy |
| Details |
1792 |
William Blake, engravings for John Gabriel Stedman, Narrative, of a five years' expedition, against revolted Negroes of Surinam. |
*Abolition |
| Details |
1792 |
Religious Controversy: Anna Laetitia Barbauld,
Remarks on Mr. Gilbert Wakefield's Enquiry. |
*Religious Controversy |
| Details |
1792 |
Janet Little, The Poetical Works of Janet Little, the Scotch Milkmaid. |
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| Details |
1792 |
Benjamin and Abraham Goldsmid enter the British financial world, restoring a sense of order. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
| Details |
Jan 1792 |
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. |
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| Details |
Jan 25, 1792 |
Shoemaker Thomas Hardy starts the London Corresponding Society; the group debates for five nights--"Have we who are Tradesman, Shopkeepers and mechanics any right to seek to obtain a parliamentary reform?" |
*Parliamentary Reform |
| Details |
Mar 1792 |
Girondins come to power, advocating a constitutional monarchy, overthrow of the clergy, and the aggressive export of the French Revolution across Europe. |
*French Revolution |
| Details |
Apr 11, 1792 |
Radical Whigs declare themselves "The Society of the Friends of the People." |
*Whig Party |
| Details |
Apr 20, 1792 |
France declares war against Austria. |
*French Revolution |
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May 1792 |
Society for Constitutional Information prints as a pamphlet and cheaply distributes Paine's The Rights Of Man. |
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May 21, 1792 |
George III issues a Royal Proclamation vs. seditious writings: The Rights Of Man banned; Paine charged with sedition. |
*House of Hanover |
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May 24, 1792 |
Arthur Young, Travels (pro-France). |
*France |
| Details |
July 1792 |
Haydn meets Beethoven in Bonn and accepts him as a pupil. |
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| Details |
July 1792 |
French Revolution: Girondins (moderates, advocating a constitutional monarchy) under attack from Jacobins (radicals, advocating a Republic). |
*French Revolution |
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Aug 1792 |
French Revolution: Lafayette, leader of the French National Guard, deserts; he flees to Austria after failing to control the Jacobins. |
*French Revolution |
