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RecID: 59 |
1784 |
Sir William Jones, "A Discourse on the Institution of a Society for Inquiring into the History, Civil and Natural, the Antiquities, Arts, Sciences, and Literature of Asia." |
*India
*Colonialism
*Orientalism |
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RecID: 502 |
1784 |
Pitt's India Act gives the Crown the power to guide Indian politics (as opposed to officers of the East India Company alone).
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*India
*Colonialism
*East India Company |
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RecID: 503 |
1784 |
Beaumarchais, Marriage de Figaro. |
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RecID: 504 |
1784 |
Capt. James Cook, Voyage to the Pacific Ocean in 1776-80. |
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RecID: 506 |
1784 |
William Blake, An Island in the Moon. |
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RecID: 507 |
1784 |
Maria and Harriet Falconar, Poems on Slavery. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 508 |
1784 |
James Ramsay, Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves. (Challenges the notion of racial inferiority.) |
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RecID: 509 |
1784 |
André Modeste Grétry, Richard Coeur-de-Lion (Paris; in Vienna 1802 and 1810). |
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RecID: 1852 |
1784 |
Joanna Baillie, with family, move in with Matthew Baillie (Joanna's brother) in London. |
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RecID: 1938 |
1784 |
Andre Modeste Gretry, Richard Coeur-de-Lion. |
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RecID: 2310 |
1784 |
Sometime in the fall of this year (probably late Sept. or early Oct.), William Wordsworth writes his first poetry. The topic, which is assigned by his schoolmaster at Hawkshead School (William Taylor), is "The Summer Vacation." During Christmas vacation later this year, Wordsworth composes his first "voluntary" poetry on the theme of The Return from School. |
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RecID: 2334 |
1784 |
Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Poems. Volume II, beginning at sonnet 60, was published in 1797, with the assurance that the author cannot be accused of "feigning sorrow for [the sake of seizing] an opportunity of shewing the pathos with which it can be described." This collection went through 10 editions in 17 years, appearing in a two-volume edition in 1800 illustrated with engravings by Thomas Stothard. |
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RecID: 505 |
1784 - 1809 |
Arthur Young, Annals of Agriculture. |
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RecID: 1835 |
Jan 15, 1784 |
India: The Asiatic Society of Bengal is founded with Sir William Jones as president. His address to the committee, "A Dissertation on the Orthography of Asiatick Words in Roman Letters," is published in the Society's Transactions in 1788. |
*India
*Colonialism |
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RecID: 510 |
Dec 13, 1784 |
Samuel Johnson dies. |
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