Date	Event	Topics
Edit RecID: 547	1789	William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Book of Thel are dated 1789.
Edit RecID: 550	1789	The rest of Rousseau's Confessions (See first part of the Confessions.)
Edit RecID: 551	1789	Ann Radcliffe, The Castles of Athlyn and Dunbane.	*The Gothic
Edit RecID: 552	1789	Charlotte Smith, Ethelinda, or The Recluse of the Lake.
Edit RecID: 553	1789	Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano. (It becomes a bestseller, aiding the cause of abolition.)	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 1784	1789	William Lisle Bowles, Fourteen Sonnets, Elegiac and Descriptive. Written During a Tour.
Edit RecID: 101	1789 - 1791	Erasmus Darwin writes his long poem in heroic couplets titled, The Botanic Garden. The poem's first part, The Loves of the Plants is published first in 1789. Part II, The Economy of Vegetation appears in 1791. Erasmus Darwin is grandfather of Charles Darwin.
Edit RecID: 545	1789 - 1799	France: The French Revolution, ending with the overthrow of the Directory by Napoleon Bonaparte.	*France *French Revolution
Edit RecID: 554	May 1789	Louis XVI attempts limited economic reforms.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 555	June 17, 1789	The Third Estate--representatives of the French people who are neither aristocrats (First Estate) nor clergy (Second Estate)--names itself the National Assembly (the equivalent of the English House of Commons or the U.S. House of Representatives breaking off from the rest of the government and legislating on their own).	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 556	June 20, 1789	The oath of the Jeu de Paume (the Tennis Court where the National Assembly is now meeting; they resolve not to adjourn until they have established a constitution for the kingdom).	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 557	June 22, 1789	The clergy joins the Third Estate.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 558	July 14, 1789	Fall of the Bastille: A Paris mob storms the Bastille prison; aristocracy begins to emigrate.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 559	Aug 1789	Constituent Assembly (formerly the National Assembly) ratifies The Declaration of the Rights of Man, abolished Feudalism, and drafts a constitution limiting the monarchy. Jacobins, at first the liberal, then increasing radical wing of the assembly, gain power.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 2317	Sept 1789 - Oct 1789	William Wordsworth visits Hawkshead probably between mid Sept. and mid Oct.; he probably at this time meets the discharged soldier referred to in The Prelude, 4.400 ff.
Edit RecID: 560	Oct 5, 1789 - Oct 6, 1789	"October days": Parisian women, unable to get bread, march to Versailles and bring the royal family back to Paris.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 561	Nov 1789	Land owned by the church is nationalized.	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 562	Nov 4, 1789	At the second annual meeting of the London Revolution Society, a radical or reform society celebrating the anniversary of the Glorious Revolution, the Rev. Dr. Richard Price gives his sermon, Discourse on the Love of Our Country; the sermon infuriates Edmund Burke.	*Revolution Controversy in England
Edit RecID: 537	1790	Hannah More, The Slave Trade (a retitled version of the 1788 poem), An Estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World.	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 563	1790	Beginning of the Revolution Controversy (the pamphlet war set off by Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France).	*French Revolution
Edit RecID: 564	1790	Select Committee of Commons hears testimony on the slave trade.	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 565	1790	Death of Adam Smith.
Edit RecID: 566	1790	Kant, The Critique of Judgement.
Edit RecID: 567	1790	Blake's Marriage of Heaven and Hell. (The poem was dated by Blake 1790, but until recently various critics have believed that he did not finish etching the plates for this work until 1792 or alternately 1793; recent evidence confirms the 1790 date.)
Edit RecID: 568	1790	Helen Maria Williams, Julia: a Novel, "Sonnet to Hope," and Letters from France.