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Details Feb 1787  Robert Blake (brother of William Blake) dies of consumption.  
Details Apr 1, 1787  Probably on this date William Wordsworth publishes his first poem, "Sonnet, on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress." It is signed "Axiologus" and appears in the March issue of The European Magazine.  
Details Oct 30, 1787  William Wordsworth probably arrives in Cambridge on this day, where he becomes a student in St. John's College (Cambridge U.). He is a student at Cambridge until January 1791.  
Details 1788  King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis: Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox attack the ministry of William Pitt the Younger by trying to obtain full regal powers for the Prince of Wales. *The Regency Crisis
*House of Hanover  
Details 1788  Child Labor: Law is passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old (not enforced). *Child Labor  
Details 1788  Manchester launches a mass abolition petition campaign. Privy Council Committee for Trade and Plantations reports on the slave trade. Abolition is raised in Parliament. First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade, stipulating more humane conditions on slave ships. Mass propaganda campaigns begin. *Abolition  
Details 1788  Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, a Fiction (a jacobin novel) and Original Stories from Real Life (for children).  
Details 1788  Charlotte Smith, Emmeline.  
Details 1788  Blake, Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms.  
Details 1788  Hannah More, Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society.  
Details 1788  John Newton, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade. *Abolition  
Details 1788  Thomas Clarkson, Impolicy of the Slave Trade. *Abolition  
Details 1788  Hannah More, Slavery, A Poem (see also 1790). *Abolition  
Details 1788  Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade. *Abolition  
Details 1788  William Roscoe, Unitarian reformer and future lawyer/banker in Liverpool, writes part I of his "The Wrongs of Africa," numerous poems, pamphlets, and petitions on abolition, peace, and reform. *Abolition  
Details 1788  Blake invents "relief etching" (the method he attributed to the dictation by brother Robert's spirit), producing, All Religions Are One and There is No Natural Religion.  
Details 1788 - 1789  Blake's Tiriel written and illustrated, but never illuminated, never "published."  
Details 1788 - 1789  William Wordsworth composes most of An Evening Walk. The poem is not published until Jan. 29, 1793, when it appears together with another locodescriptive work composed mostly in 1791, Descriptive Sketches.  
Details 1788 - 1792  Usually considered the period of mass abolitionist agitation, led by Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Pitt. The West Indian port system is renewed and expanded (through 1792). Government seeks to expand British colonial cotton growth. *Abolition
*Colonialism  
Details 1788 - 1792  Sugar prices begin a general rise. *Abolition  
Details Jan 22, 1788  George Gordon, Lord Byron born, London.  
Details Feb 1788  King George III recovers from madness, leaving Pitt's ministry safe. *The Regency Crisis
*House of Hanover  
Details May 1788  Analytical Review begins publication.  
Details May 9, 1788  Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces legislation to regulate the slave trade. *Abolition  
Details 1789  William Wilberforce introduces resolutions on the slave trade in Parliament. Commons agrees to hear evidence. The Dolben act is now renewed annually. *Abolition  

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