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1808 |
Robert Southey, The Chronicle of the Cid. |
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1808 |
Ackermann, Microcosm of London. |
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1808 |
Elizabeth Inchbald, The British Theatre, or a Collection of Plays. |
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1808 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, The Cottagers of Glenburnie. |
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1808 |
Thomas Clarkson, The History of . . . The Abolition of the African Slave
Trade by the British Parliament. |
*Abolition |
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1808 |
Blake's watercolors Jacob's Dream and Christ in the Sepulchre exhibited at Royal Academy. |
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1808 |
Leigh Hunt becomes editor of The Examiner. |
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1808 |
Convention of Cintra, supervising French
withdrawal, signed. |
*France |
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1808 |
Susan Evance, Poems. |
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1808 |
Jose Blanco White emigrates to England, seeking asylum from the French invasion and the Spanish Junta. |
*France
*Spain |
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1808 |
Production of Joanna Baillie's Constantine Paleologus at Liverpool's Theatre Royal. Also performed as Constantine and Valeria at London's Surrey Theatre. Joanna and Agnes Baillie tour Scotland's Western Highlands and Glasgow. |
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1808 |
Publication of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto in G major, Op. 58; 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. |
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1808 |
Beethoven, Trios in D major and E flat major, Op. 70. Publication of Beethoven's overture to H.J. von Collin's Coriolan, Op. 62. |
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1808 |
Benjamin Goldsmid commits suicide. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
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Jan 1, 1808 |
Mary Godwin (Shelley), Mounseer Nongtonpow. |
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May 1808 |
Uprisings in Spain. |
*Spain |
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May 1808 |
In Grasmere, Dorothy and William Wordsworth leave Dove Cottage, where they had lived since 1799, for Allan Bank house. |
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Dec 22, 1808 |
Performance of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto, portions of the Mass in C major, et al. |
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1809 |
Abolition: Sugar prices rise. Senegal, Marinique, and Cayenne captured by the British. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1809 |
Coronation of Joseph Bonaparte in Madrid, Spain. Wellesley in command in Portugal. |
*Spain |
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1809 |
France: Napoleon defeated by the Austrians. |
*France |
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1809 |
Death of Joseph Johnson. |
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1809 |
Schlegel, On Dramatic Art and Literature, |
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1809 |
Maria Edgeworth, Tales of Fashionable Ladies (the last volume, The Absentee, will be published in 1812). |
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1809 |
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), Ida of Athens, The Missionary. |
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