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1805 |
Commons narrowly defeats abolition. An order-in-council ends the African trade to conquered slave areas by 1807 and immediately reduces annual "imports" to 3 percent of the existing slave population. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1805 |
William Hazlitt, Principles of Human Action. |
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1805 |
Sir Walter Scott, Lay of the Last Minstrel. |
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1805 |
Robert Southey, Madoc. |
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1805 |
Richard Payne Knight, Principles of Taste. |
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1805 |
Maria Edgeworth, The Modern Griselda. |
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1805 |
Jane and Ann Taylor, Original Poems for Infant Minds. (The collection contains Jane Taylor's poem "Star," which begins "Twinkle, twinkle, little star....") |
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1805 |
Mary Tighe, Psyche. |
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1805 |
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), The Novice of St. Dominick. |
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1805 |
Amelia Opie, Adeline Mowbray. |
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1805 |
Blake, drawings for Blair's Grave, William Hayley's Ballads, Thomas Gray's Poems; also Biblical watercolors for Thomas Butts. |
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1805 |
Laura Sophia Temple, Poems. |
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1805 |
Joanna Baillie, Miscellaneous Plays, second edition. |
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1805 |
Publication of Beethoven's Sonata in A major for piano and violin, Op. 47; Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 53. |
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1805 - 1806 |
Beethoven revises Leonore and writes the Fourth Piano Concerto in G major, Op. 58. |
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Feb 5, 1805 |
William Wordsworth's brother John drowns in the shipwreck of the Earl of Abergavenny, which he captained. As attested in Wordsworth's grieving letters at the time ("Our loss is one which never can be made up," "my loss is great, and irreparable," "there is something cut out of my life which cannot be restored," "the set is now broken") and "Elegiac Stanzas" (composed summer 1806), this was one of the defining moments in his personal and poetic life. |
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May 1805 |
William Wordsworth 1805 version of The
Prelude finished. |
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Oct 21, 1805 |
Nelson's victory at Trafalgar. |
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Dec 2, 1805 |
Napoleon defeats Austrians and Russians at Austerlitz. |
*France |
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1806 |
End of the Holy Roman Empire. |
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1806 |
The new Grenville-Fox ministry supplanting Pitt's aids the abolition. Sugar prices fall. |
*Abolition |
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1806 |
Maria Edgeworth, Leonora. |
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1806 |
Amelia Opie, Simple Tales. |
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1806 |
Sir Walter Scott, Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. |
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1806 |
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), The Wild Irish Girl. |
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