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1833 |
Schleiermacher, On the Worth of Socrates as a Philosopher (translated). |
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1833 |
Maria Jane Jewsbury dies of cholera in India. |
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1833 |
"Oxford movement" begins ("High Church" movement within the Church of England). |
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1833 |
Rise of the Disciplines: Coleridge, attending a meeting of the British Society for the Advancement of Science, prompts use of word "scientist" (Cambridge). |
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1833 |
Alfred Bunn gets control of both Drury Lane and Covent Gardens. |
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1833 |
Founding of the Manchester Statistical Society. |
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1833 |
Leitch Ritchie begins a Library of Romance series (Smith and Elder). |
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1833 |
Abolition: Mary Anne Rawson's anti-slavery anthology, The Bow in the Cloud. |
*Abolition |
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1833 |
Death of Arthur Henry Hallam. |
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1833 |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, England and the English. |
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1833 |
William Carleton, Traits and Stories. |
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1833 |
Thomas Arnold, Principles of Church Reform. |
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1833 |
Mendelssohn, Italian Symphony. |
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1833 |
Establishment of the Committee on Open Spaces. |
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1833 |
Ireland: Irish Chruch Temporalities Act reorganizes the Church of Ireland. Irish Church Bill is introduced in Parliament--the bill would disestablish Irish churches. |
*Ireland |
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1833 |
Francis Goldsmid becomes first Jewish barrister. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
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July 10, 1833 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Speech Delivered in the House of Commons on the Government of India. |
*India |
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July 31, 1833 |
Abolition of Colonial Slavery: The British Emancipation Act prohibits slavery in British Colonies, with provision for a 6-year "apprenticeship"; 800,000 slaves freed; owners compensated with over 20 million pounds. The Bill took effect in 1834. Unfortunately, the Act included a clause requiring slaves to serve an apprenticeship to their former owners, a clause which was first abolished in various colonies and then revoked entirely in the Immediate Abolition Act of 1838. |
*Colonialism
*Abolition |
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Dec 1833 |
Charles Dickens, A Dinner at Poplar Walk in Monthly Magazine. |
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1834 |
Felicia Hemans, paper on Goethe's Tasso in New Monthly. |
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1834 |
Felicia Hemans, National Lyrics and Songs for Music, Scenes and Hymns of Life with Other Religious Poems (dedicated to W. Wordsworth), Hymns for Childhood. (See 1827.) |
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1834 |
New Poor Law argues that indiscriminate relief demoralizes beneficiaries, abolishes outdoor relief, and maintains workhouse inmates at salary level below lowest paid workers. |
*Poor Law
*Economics |
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1834 |
Height of the trade union struggles during good economic times. |
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1834 |
Reform Movement: Lord Lyndhurst declares Poor Man's Guardian not a newspaper and thus legal. |
*Parliamentary Reform
*Radicalism
*Poor Law |
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1834 |
Benjamin Disraeli defeated at High Wycombe by the election of a Tory. |
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