Date	Event	Topics
Edit RecID: 460	1779	Hannah More, The Fatal Falsehood.
Edit RecID: 461	1779	Frances Burney, Evelina, or, a Young Lady's Entrance into the World (before the end of the year, five editions go out to an intrigued public).
Edit RecID: 1937	1779	Christoph Willibald Gluck, Iphigenie en Tauride.
Edit RecID: 2305	May 1779	William and Richard Wordsworth start at the Hawkshead Free Grammar School, boarding with Ann Tyson.
Edit RecID: 2307	June 18, 1779	James Jackson, schoolmaster at Sawrey, drowns in Esthwaite Lake. His clothes are left on the shore, where they are seen by William Wordsworth, age nine. This becomes the basis of the Drowned Man episode in Wordsworth's The Prelude, 5.450 ff.
Edit RecID: 462	Oct 8, 1779	Blake begins studying at the Royal Academy.
Edit RecID: 463	1780	Mahrattas and Hyder Ali fight against the British until 1804.	*India *Colonialism
Edit RecID: 464	1780	Ireland: Colonial trade opened to Irish goods.	*Ireland *Colonialism
Edit RecID: 465	1780	Until now, only landowners and tenants--freeholders with 40 shillings per annum or more--are allowed to vote, and voting takes place in open poll books. Major Cartwright founds the Society for Constitutional Information, one of the first of the "radical societies" that agitated for voting and parliamentary reform; he publishes Give Us Our Rights, insisting that poor men should be allowed to vote. Christopher Wyvill and the Yorkshire Association lead the fight against Parliament. A committee in the Commons passes Dunning's resolution: "That the power of the Crown . . . ought to be diminished" (Parliament's typical reaction to pressure for electoral reform--blame the king).	*Parliamentary Reform *Radicalism
Edit RecID: 466	1780	Lord Shelburne gathers together the group of rationalists/utilitarians (Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, and Jeremy Bentham) known as the Bowood circle.
Edit RecID: 467	1780	Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, The Education of the Human Race.
Edit RecID: 469	1780	Blake and companions on a sketching trip are arrested for being French spies.
Edit RecID: 468	June 2, 1780 - June 8, 1780	The Gordon Riots: Parliament passes a Roman Catholic relief measure; for days, London is at the mercy of a mob and destruction is widespread. This event "nips the association movement [for Parliamentary reform] in the bud."	*Parliamentary Reform *Radicalism
Edit RecID: 470	1781	The Zong Incident: Luke Colingwood, captain of the slave ship Zong, jettisons 133 slaves into shark-infested waters to collect insurance. This massacre gives further impetus to the Abolition movement in Britain.	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 471	1781	Last major British defeat to U.S.	*American Revolution
Edit RecID: 472	1781	Boulton and Watt produce improved steam engine.	*Industrial Revolution
Edit RecID: 473	1781	Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason.
Edit RecID: 474	1781	Friedrich von Schiller, Die Räuber.
Edit RecID: 475	1781	Anna Letitia Barbauld, Hymns in Prose for Children.
Edit RecID: 476	1781	Franz Joseph Haydn, six String Quartets, Op. 33.
Edit RecID: 2308	1781	The Rev. William Taylor becomes headmaster of Hawkshead School until his death at age 32 in 1786. William Wordsworth, who attends the school, later works Taylor into the character of Matthew in his Matthew poems (e.g., "The Two April Mornings"). In The Prelude, 10.486 ff., Wordsworth recounts visiting Taylor's grave at Cartmel Priory and reading his epitaph.
Edit RecID: 52	1782	The British acquire the Mysore districts in India.	*India *Colonialism
Edit RecID: 477	1782	Ireland: Volunteers call for legislative independence at Dungannon Convention. Catholic Relief Act allows Irish Catholics to own land outside Parliamentary boroughs and gives access to educational rights (dissenters also allowed valid marriage ceremonies).	*Ireland
Edit RecID: 478	1782	Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Liaisons dangereuses.
Edit RecID: 479	1782	Frances Burney, Cecilia.