Date	Event	Topics
Edit RecID: 480	1782	Hannah More, the essay "Sensibility," with Sacred Dramas.	*Sensibility
Edit RecID: 481	1782	Posthumous publication of the first part of Rousseau's Confessions. (See second part of the Confessions.)
Edit RecID: 482	1782	Samuel Johnson, "On the Death of Dr. Robert Levet."
Edit RecID: 483	1782	Fuseli's painting The Nightmare exhibited.
Edit RecID: 484	1782	Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail.
Edit RecID: 486	1782	Gilbert's Act established outdoor poor relief.	*Radicalism *Poor Law
Edit RecID: 1834	1782	Abolition: Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, an African. Sancho was born a British slave and became a servant for the aristocracy before he began his letter writing. A memoir of Sancho's early life was prefixed to the Letters by Josephy Jekyll.	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 493	1782 - 1783	Beethoven, Piano Sonatas in E flat major, F minor, and D major (also called the "Kurfürst" sonatas), (see March below).
Edit RecID: 485	Nov 30, 1782	American War of Independence ends.	*American Revolution
Edit RecID: 487	1783	Olaudah Equiano brings the Zong incident (see 1781) to the attention of the abolition movement and it is brought to trial; Mansfield presides over the insurance trial and rules for the captain. British Quakers organize committees to publicize and to petition against the slave trade. A petition is presented to Parliament and received without further action.	*Abolition
Edit RecID: 488	1783	Herder, Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind.
Edit RecID: 489	1783	George Crabbe, The Village.
Edit RecID: 490	1783	Hugh Blair, Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres.
Edit RecID: 491	1783	William Blake, Poetical Sketches is printed but not sold; at the Mathew salon, Blake sings some of his Songs of Innocence to tunes he composed.
Edit RecID: 492	1783	Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (in Bonn; originally performed in 1782).
Edit RecID: 1851	1783	William Hunter, uncle of Joanna Baillie, dies. Matthew Baillie, brother of Joanna, inherits most of the estate.
Edit RecID: 494	Mar 2, 1783	Cramer's Magazin der Musik announces that, if supported, Beethoven "would certainly become a second Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart."
Edit RecID: 495	Apr 2, 1783	Fox-North Coalition formed under Duke of Portland.
Edit RecID: 496	June 17, 1783	Samuel Johnson suffers stroke, temporarily loses his ability to speak.
Edit RecID: 497	Aug 15, 1783	Duke of Richmond's letter to Sharman (a blueprint for parliamentary reform).
Edit RecID: 498	Aug 15, 1783	Duke of Richmond's letter to Sharman (a blueprint for parliamentary reform).
Edit RecID: 499	Sept 3, 1783	Treaty of Versailles between England and the U.S.	*American Revolution
Edit RecID: 500	Dec 18, 1783	Fall of Fox-North Coalition.
Edit RecID: 501	Dec 19, 1783	William Pitt the Younger becomes Prime Minister and remains so intermittently until 1806 (his ministries span 1783-1801, 1804-06).
Edit RecID: 2309	Dec 30, 1783	William Wordsworth's father (John Wordsworth Sr.) dies while William and his brothers Richard and John are home in Cockermouth during Christmas break from Hawkshead School. William is age 13.