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1800 |
W. Wordsworth writes The Recluse, Bk. I. ("Home at Grasmere," not published until 1888; as described in his Preface to The Excursion, published 1814, The Prelude, The Excursion, and The Recluse were to be three parts of a projected masterwork.) Wordsworth writes the famous "Preface" to the 1800 (2nd) edition of
Lyrical Ballads. |
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1800 |
Schelling, System of Transcendental Idealism. |
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1800 |
Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent. |
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1800 |
Novalis, Hymn of the Night. |
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1800 |
Thomas Moore, Odes of Anacreon. |
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1800 |
Mary Robinson, Lyrical Tales. |
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1800 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, Memoirs of Modern Philosophers (ridicules Mary Hays). |
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1800 |
Mary Hays writes a tribute to Wollstonecraft appearing in Annual Necrology (1797-98). |
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1800 |
Blake moves to Felpham to live under the patronage of William Hayley. |
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1800 |
Iron-frame printing press patented by Charles Stanhope enables large sheet printing and development of thick advertising fonts. |
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1800 |
Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions, Vol. I, third edition. Baillie is acknowledged as the author. |
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1800 |
Publication of Mozart's Requiem. |
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1800 |
Luigi Cherubini, Les deux jounees. |
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1800 - 1801 |
Beethoven, Sonata in A minor and F major, Op. 23 and 24; music for Vigano's Die Geschopfe des Prometheus, Op. 43. |
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1800 - 1802 |
Beethoven, Third Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37. |
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Apr 2, 1800 |
First performance occurs at Vienna for both Beethoven's First Symphony, Op. 21 and Septet, Op. 20. |
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Apr 3, 1800 |
Joanna Baillie's De Monfort is submitted for licensing by John Philip Kemble. |
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Apr 25, 1800 |
William Cowley dies. |
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Apr 29, 1800 |
Drury Lane production of Joanna Baillie's De Monfort. John Philip Kemble produces and plays De Monfort, while Sarah Siddons plays Jane. |
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Aug 1, 1800 |
Act of the Union with Ireland. |
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Oct 25, 1800 |
Birth of Thomas Babington Macaulay. |
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1801 |
Pitt government resigns on the refusal of George III to assent to Catholic emancipation. |
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1801 |
Abolition: A struggle begins over the sale of St. Vincent and Trinidad crown lands. St. Bartholomew is captured, as are all Danish West Indies. |
*Abolition
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1801 |
Peace preliminaries are signed with France. |
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1801 |
First census puts the population of England and Wales at 9,168,000, of Britain at nearly 11 million (75 per cent rural). |
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