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Sept 1794 |
Coleridge and Robert Southey publish their play, The Fall of Robespierre. |
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Oct 6, 1794 |
The prosecutor for Britain, Lord Justice Eyre, charges the reformers not simply with sedition, but rather with High Treason, defined as any attempt to assassinate the King: he argued that, since reform of parliament would lead to revolution and revolution to executing the King, the desire for reform endangered the King's life and was therefore treasonous. |
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Oct 21, 1794 |
William Godwin's "Cursory Strictures on the Charge Delivered by Lord Justice Eyre" effectively argues that extending the law against treason to apply to reformers (formulating a legal precedent of "constructive treason") would usher in a Reign of Terror in Britain. |
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Oct 28, 1794 |
Treason trials open; Thomas Erskine defends the reformers. |
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Nov 5, 1794 |
After deliberating for 3 hours, the jury acquits for Thomas Hardy; three weeks later, Horne Tooke and Thelwall arre acquitted, and Thomas Holcroft discharged without trial. |
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1795 |
Famine in the British Isles. |
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1795 |
Speenhamland Act says that the Parish is responsible for bringing up the laborer's wage to subsistence level. |
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1795 |
French Revolution: Peace treaties with Prussia, Holland, and Spain; General Napoleon, working under the Directory government, represses a royalist uprising. |
*Spain
*French Revolution
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1795 |
Commons again defeats abolition. British slave islands are attacked by French revolutionary forces. |
*Abolition
*French Revolution |
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1795 |
Maria Edgeworth, Letters for Literary Ladies. |
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1795 |
Paine, The Age Of Reason (Part I). |
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1795 |
Edmund Burke, "Thoughts and Details on Scarcity." |
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1795 |
Schelling, On the I as Principle of Philosophy, or on the Absolute in Human Knowledge. |
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1795 |
Schiller, Letters on Aesthetic Education and On Naive and Sentimental Poetry and On Naive and Sentimental Poetry. |
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1795 |
Charlotte Smith, Montalbert |
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1795 |
Ann Yearsley, The Royal Captives. |
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1795 |
William Blake, The Song of Los, The Book of Los, The Book of Ahania. |
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1795 |
William Blake, series of 12 prints including Newton and Nebuchadnezzar.
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1795 |
Coleridge's Bristol lectures, including "On the Slave Trade" (June 16). |
*Abolition |
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1795 |
Joseph Fawcett, The Art of War. |
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1795 |
Hannah More begins publishing her Cheap Repository Tracts, that is, pamphlets instructing common people in matters of
conduct that appeared in the series called, "The Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts." "The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain" published this year as one of the Cheap Repository Tracts. |
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1795 |
Eliza Fenwick, Secresy, or Ruin on the Rock. |
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1795 |
Ann Radcliffe, A Journey Made in the Summer in the Summer of 1794 Through Holland and the Western Frontier of Germany . . .
Observations . . . of the Lakes. |
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1795 |
Beethoven's Op. 1 (the E flat major, G major, and C minor trios for piano, violin, and cello) composed in 1793-4, is published. Beethoven composes Piano Sonatas in F minor, A major, and C major, Op. 2 (published in 1796). |
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1795 |
Birth of Thomas Carlyle. |
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