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year greater than or equals "1796"
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Details 1798 - 1799  Prosecution and imprisonment of Joseph Johnson, the radical printer and bookseller, and Gilbert Wakefield; Fox calls it "a death Blow to the liberty of the press." *Radicalism  
Details 1798 - 1799  Beethoven, Piano Sonato in C minor (Sonate pathetique), Op. 13.  
Details 1798 - 1800  Beethoven, String Quartets in F major, G major, D major, C minor, A major, and B flat major, Op. 18.  
Details Jan 29, 1798  William Godwin publishes the Posthumous Works of Mary Wollstonecraft (including her unfinished novel Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman. A Fragment.) and his own Memoirs of the Author of a Vindication of the Rights of Woman.  
Details Feb 1798 - Oct 1798  Ireland: The Irish Rebellion. 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die. Irish Parliament abolished. *Ireland  
Details Mar 1798  Ireland: United Irish leaders arrested in Dublin; martial law imposed. *Ireland  
Details Mar 6, 1798  In a letter to James Tobin, W. Wordsworth says he has written 1,300 lines of a poem called The Recluse or views of Nature, Man, and Society (maybe "The Ruined Cottage" combined with "The Pedlar"; maybe also "The Discharged Soldier," "The Old Cumberland Beggar"); Coleridge is helping him with the plan.  
Details May 1798  Ireland: Rebellions in Wexford. *Ireland  
Details May 11, 1798  France: the Coup of 22 Floreal, Year VI, vs. Jacobins. *French Revolution  
Details June 1798  Thomas Robert Malthus, Essay on the Principle of Population.  
Details July 13, 1798  W. Wordsworth revisits Tintern Abbey and writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey" quickly enough to have the poem included in Lyrical Ballads. (See also his visit to Tintern Abbey in 1793.)  
Details Aug 1798  Ireland: French forces land at Killala. *Ireland  
Details Sept 1798 - Oct 1798  Lyrical Ballads (1798, vol. 1) (by W. Wordsworth and S. T. Coleridge) is published anonymously. Joseph Cottle prints a few copies in Bristol, then in a confusing series of maneuvers (perhaps motivated by financial difficulties) attempts to pass on his interest in the volume to London publishers--first Longman and then J. Arch. The volume is finally published by J. Arch on Oct. 4. Enroute to Germany, meanwhile, Wordsworth tries futiley to have Cottle transfer the volume to the Joseph Johnson in London, with whom Wordsworth has come to an independent agreement for publication.  
Details Sept 8, 1798  Ireland: French forces surrender at Ballinamuck. *Ireland  
Details Oct 6, 1798  W. Wordsworth goes to Germany with Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth (according to E. P. Thompson, to dodge the draft)--it was during this trip, according to De Selincourt, that Wordsworth's "republican ardour evanesced"; Coleridge at the University at Gottingen.  
Details Nov 3, 1798  Ireland: Wolfe Tone arrested after arriving in Lough Swilly with another French force. *Ireland
*France  
Details Nov 19, 1798  Ireland: Wolfe Tone commits suicide in prison. *Ireland  

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