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1801 |
Maria Edgeworth, Belinda. |
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1801 |
Helena Maria Williams, Perourou, the Bellow Mender (a satire later adapted for the stage). |
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1801 |
Joanna Southcott, The Strange Effects of Faith. |
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1801 |
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Poems. |
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1801 |
Amelia Opie, Father and Daughter. |
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1801 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, Letters on Education. |
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1801 |
Robert Southey, Thalaba. |
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1801 |
Thomas Moore, Poems by Thomas Little. |
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1801 |
William Lisle Bowles, Sorrows of Switzerland. |
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1801 |
Beethoven, Piano Sonata in C sharp minor (sonata quasi una fantasia), Op. 27 No. 2. Publication of Beethoven's Op. 18. |
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1801 - 1802 |
Beethoven, Piano Sonatas in G major, D minor, and E flat major, Op. 31; Second Symphony, Op. 36. |
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Jan 1, 1801 |
Union with Ireland takes effect by proclamation. George III is now called king of Great Britain (England and Scotland) and Ireland. |
*Ireland
*Scotland |
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Mar 28, 1801 |
First performance of Viago's Die Geschopfe des Prometheus, with music by Beethoven. |
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Apr 13, 1801 |
Park Theatre, New York, production of Joanna Baillie's De Monfort. |
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Apr 24, 1801 |
Haydn's oratorio The Seasons perfromed for the first time. |
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June 1801 |
Beethoven writes to friends about his increasing deafness. |
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Sept 1801 |
Death of Gilbert Wakefield. |
*Methodism |
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Oct 1, 1801 |
Truce between Britain and France. |
*France |
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1802 |
France reoccupies Switzerland. |
*France |
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1802 |
Wilberforce postpones a general abolition motion. Plantation expansion is blocked in Trinidad and St. Vincent. The Peace of Amiens between England and France restores slave colonies to prewar status except for Trinidad, San Domingo, and Louisiana. |
*Abolition
*France
*Colonialism |
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1802 |
Joanna Baillie, Vol. II of Plays on the Passions. Publication of fourth edition of Vol. I of Plays on the Passions. Baillie and family relocate to Hampstead. |
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1802 |
Sir Walter Scott, Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border. |
*Scotland |
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1802 |
Spinoza, Works. |
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1802 |
William Paley, Natural Theology. |
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1802 |
William Hayley, A Series of Ballads with engravings by Blake. |
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