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RecID: 400 |
1770 |
Oliver Goldsmith, "The Deserted Village."
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RecID: 401 |
1770 |
Raynal, Histoire des deux Indes. |
*Colonialism |
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RecID: 402 |
1770 |
Thomas Chatterton commits suicide.
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RecID: 397 |
1770 - 1782 |
Frederick North (Lord North) rules as Prime Minister. |
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RecID: 403 |
Apr 7, 1770 |
William Wordsworth born, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. He is the second child of John Wordsworth, Sr., attorney and law-agent of Sir James Lowther, and Ann Wordsworth (nee Cookson). |
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RecID: 2298 |
Apr 13, 1770 |
William Wordsworth baptized in Cockermouth. |
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RecID: 404 |
Aug 27, 1770 |
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel born, Stuttgart. |
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RecID: 405 |
Dec 16, 1770 |
Ludwig van Beethoven born, Bonn, Germany. |
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RecID: 407 |
1771 |
Arkwright's first spinning-mill. |
*Industrial Revolution |
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RecID: 408 |
1771 |
Tobias Smollett, Humphrey Clinker. |
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RecID: 409 |
1771 |
James Beattie, "The Minstrel; or, The Progress of Genius" (second part published in 1774). |
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RecID: 410 |
1771 |
Henry Mackenzie, The Man of Feeling. |
*Sensibility |
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RecID: 2299 |
Dec 25, 1771 |
Dorothy Wordsworth born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. |
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RecID: 50 |
1772 |
Warren Hastings becomes Governor of Bengal. |
*India
*Colonialism |
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RecID: 411 |
1772 |
Herder, On the Origin of Language. |
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RecID: 412 |
1772 |
Sir William Jones, Poems from Asiatick Languages. |
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RecID: 413 |
1772 |
Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England (contains commentary on the Mansfield decision; see 14 May
1772). |
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RecID: 414 |
1772 |
William Blake apprenticed to James Basire. |
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RecID: 1848 |
1772 |
Joanna Baillie sent to Miss McDonald's boarding school, Glasgow, Scotland. |
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RecID: 2329 |
1772 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Poems, published in December but dated "1773." |
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RecID: 416 |
1772 - 1773 |
James Burgh, Political Disquisitions, leads a group who want to replace Parliament with a U.S.-style assembly. |
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RecID: 417 |
1772 - 1776 |
Rousseau writes Dialogues: Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques. |
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RecID: 2300 |
Jan 18, 1772 |
Dorothy Wordsworth baptized, Cockermouth. Both Dorothy and William Wordsworth are christened on this day. |
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RecID: 415 |
May 14, 1772 |
The Mansfield Decision: Judge William Murray (Lord Mansfield) rules that there is no legal basis for slavery in England, giving great stimulus to the Abolition movement which was the movement to abolish the slave trade and slavery in the colonies. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 418 |
1773 |
The Regulating Act of Lord North regulates the East India Company's powers and institutes a system of dual control of India (company/crown).
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*India
*East India Company |