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RecID: 382 |
1766 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Laokoon. |
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RecID: 383 |
1766 |
Charlotte Lennox, The History of Eliza. |
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RecID: 384 |
1766 |
Oliver Goldsmith, The Vicar of Wakefield. |
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RecID: 2297 |
June 22, 1766 |
Marie-Anne Vallon (Annette Vallon) born in Blois, France. |
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RecID: 385 |
1767 |
First iron railroads built for mines by John Wilkinson. |
*Industrial Revolution |
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RecID: 386 |
1767 |
Thomas Gainsborough, The Harvest Wagon. |
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RecID: 51 |
1767 - 1799 |
Anglo-Mysore Wars. |
*India
*Colonialism |
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RecID: 387 |
1768 |
John Wilkes returns from flight to France and is elected to Parliament but expelled by the government. |
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RecID: 388 |
1768 |
Conversation club formed in Liverpool debates on the ballot box as opposed to open-book voting. Secret ballots are not actually implemented in England until 1872. |
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RecID: 390 |
1768 |
Oliver Goldsmith, The Good-Natured Man. |
*Sensibility |
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RecID: 391 |
1768 |
Laurence Sterne, A Sentimental Journey. |
*Sensibility |
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RecID: 1820 |
1768 |
Immigration wave from Eastern Europe, increasing the Jewish population in England an estimated threefold. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
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RecID: 2333 |
1768 |
Sir Joshua Reynolds is elected first President of the Royal Academy. |
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RecID: 2338 |
1768 |
The Coal Heavers' Case: a group of seven coal-heavers in Shadwell lays seige, with guns, for many hours of the night to the house of a man responsible for reducing their wages. Those who survived the violent attack are sentenced to death under the authority of the Black Act. |
*Economics |
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RecID: 389 |
1768 - 1771 |
Encyclopædia Britannica. |
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RecID: 2306 |
Aug 19, 1768 |
Richard Wordworth, older brother of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. |
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RecID: 392 |
1769 |
Arkwright invents water frame (textile production). James Watt invents the Steam Engine. |
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RecID: 393 |
1769 |
Anonymous, Letters of Junius. |
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RecID: 394 |
1769 |
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Discourses on Art. |
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RecID: 1847 |
1769 |
James Baillie, father of Joanna, becomes minister of collegiate church in Hamilton. The Baillie family relocates to Hamilton. |
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RecID: 2341 |
1769 |
Millar v. Taylor was a landmark case, a victory for London booksellers: Court of King's Bench rules that authors are indeed proprietors of their own works by common-law right, giving booksellers perpetual copyright, as opposed to a shortened term of copyright ownership based on equating authorship of texts to authorship of patents. This case reverses the Statute of Anne, but only temporarily: the ruling was overturned in Donaldson v. Becket |
*copyright |
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RecID: 396 |
1769 - 1773 |
Diderot writes Le Paradoxe sur le comédien (published in 1830). |
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RecID: 395 |
Aug 15, 1769 |
Napoleon Bonaparte born, Ajaccio, Corsica. |
*France |
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RecID: 398 |
1770 |
Hargreaves's jenny invented (textile production).. |
*Industrial Revolution |
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RecID: 399 |
1770 |
Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Jonathan Buttall (The Blue Boy). |
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