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RecID: 911 |
1806 |
Elizabeth Inchbald, Remarks for the British Theatre. |
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RecID: 912 |
1806 |
Eliza Fenwick, The Class Book, or 365 Reading Lessons Adapted to the Use of Schools. |
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RecID: 913 |
1806 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, Letters Addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman on the Formation of the Religious and Moral Principle. |
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RecID: 914 |
1806 |
William Lisle Bowles, edition of Pope. |
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RecID: 915 |
1806 |
Byron's Fugitive Pieces printed privately and immediately suppressed when the Rev. John Becher objects to some of his poems. |
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RecID: 923 |
1806 |
England begins Peninsular Campaign. |
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RecID: 1863 |
1806 |
Mother of Joanna Baillie dies; Baillie sisters relocate to Bolton House. Plays on the Passions, Vol. I, fifth edition published. Joanna Baillie and Sir Walter Scott meet for the first time. |
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RecID: 1914 |
1806 |
Beethoven, Fourth Symphony in B flat major, Op. 60; Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61; String Quartets in F major, E minor, and C major, Op. 59. Publication of Beethoven's Third Symphony in E flat major (Sinfonia eroica), Op. 55. |
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RecID: 1923 |
1806 |
Luigi Cherubini, Faniska. |
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RecID: 916 |
Jan 23, 1806 |
Death of William Pitt, London. (Legend says that Pitt died upon hearing of Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz.) |
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RecID: 917 |
Feb 11, 1806 |
Lord Grenville becomes Prime Minister. |
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RecID: 918 |
Mar 6, 1806 |
Birth of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, in Durham. |
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RecID: 1922 |
Mar 29, 1806 |
First perforance of Beethoven's Leonore. |
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RecID: 919 |
May 1806 - June 1806 |
Parliament passes a foreign abolition bill in May and a general abolition resolution in June. Parliament also prohibits new ships from entering the slave trade. |
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RecID: 920 |
Aug 1806 |
Coleridge returns to England. |
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RecID: 921 |
Sept 13, 1806 |
Charles James Fox dies, Chiswick, Devon. |
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