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1807 |
Charlotte Smith, Beachy Head, published posthumously in Beachy Head, Fables, and Other Poems. |
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1807 |
France invades Spain and Portugal. |
*France
*Spain |
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1807 |
Sierra Leone becomes a crown colony. Sugar prices continue downward. Madeira, Curacao, and the Danish West Indies are captured by the British. |
*Colonialism |
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1807 |
W. Wordsworth, Poems, in Two Volumes
("Ode. Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
ends the last volume). |
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1807 |
Thomas Moore, Irish Melodies. |
*Ireland |
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1807 |
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Lays of an Irish Harp. |
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1807 |
Charles and Mary Lamb, Tales from Shakespeare. |
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1807 |
Robert Southey, Letters from England by Don Espriella. |
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1807 |
Byron, Hours of Idleness. |
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1807 |
Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit. |
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1807 |
Germaine de Staël, Corinne, ou l'Italie translated anonymously into English and is an immediate international success. |
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1807 |
William Wilberforce, A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade. |
*Abolition |
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1807 |
H.G. Schreiter (Altenberg) translates Joanna Baillie's Basil: A Tragedy (from Plays on the Passions, Vol. I). |
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1807 |
Beethoven, Mass in C major, Op. 86; Overture to von Collin's Coriolan, Op. 62. Beethoven's Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 57 published. |
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1807 |
Etienne Nicolas Mehul, Joseph. |
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1807 |
Gaspare Spontini, Las vestale. |
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1807 - 1808 |
Beethoven, Sixth Symphony in F major (Sinfonia pastorale), Op. 68. |
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Mar 25, 1807 |
The Abolition of the Slave Trade Act: Parliament passes an act abolishing slave trading and the importation of slaves from 1808 but does not prohibit colonial slavery. |
*Abolition |
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Aug 11, 1807 |
Birth of George Augustus Frederick Lamb, son of Lady Caroline Lamb and the Hon. William Lamb (later Lord Melbourne) |
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1808 |
The Abolition Act takes effect. Sugar prices continue to be very low. Mariegalante and Desirade are captured by the British. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1808 |
Widespread uprisings in Spain; British troops land in Portugal. |
*Spain |
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1808 |
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion.
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1808 |
Goethe, Faust pt. I. |
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1808 |
Byron, Poems Original and Translated (2nd. ed., see Hours 1807). |
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1808 |
Felicia Browne (Hemans), Poems, England and Spain; or, Valour and Patriotism, a poem celebrating Britain's re-engagement with Republican values. |
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