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RecID: 441 |
1776 |
Jeremy Bentham, Theory of Legislation. |
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RecID: 442 |
1776 |
Richard Price, On Civil Liberty (sold 60,000 copies). |
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RecID: 443 |
1776 |
Major John Cartwright, Take Your Choice, advocating 1) universal male suffrage, 2) vote by ballot (anonymous), and 3) annual Parliaments. |
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RecID: 1849 |
1776 |
Rev. James Baillie becomes professor of divinity, University of Glasgow. |
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RecID: 444 |
1776 - 1788 |
Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
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RecID: 445 |
June 11, 1776 |
John Constable born, East Bergholt, Suffolk. |
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RecID: 446 |
July 4, 1776 |
American Declaration of Independence. |
*American Revolution |
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RecID: 447 |
1777 |
Hannah More, Percy and Essay on Various Subjects, Principally Designed for Young Ladies.
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RecID: 448 |
1777 |
Thomas Chatterton, "Rowley" Poems. |
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RecID: 449 |
1777 |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, School for Scandal. |
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RecID: 450 |
1777 |
Capt. James Cook, Voyage towards the South Pole in 1772-5. |
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RecID: 451 |
1777 |
Samuel Johnson commits to writing prefaces for works of English poets (Lives of the Poets), which are published in ten volumes from 1779 to 1781. |
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RecID: 452 |
1777 |
Henry Mackenzie, Julia de Roubigné. |
*Sensibility |
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RecID: 453 |
1778 |
William Pitt introduces legislation to regulate the slave trade. The case of Knight (a slave) vs. Wedderburn (owner) extends Mansfield ruling to Scotland. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 454 |
1778 |
Anna Letitia Barbauld, Lessons for Children. |
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RecID: 455 |
1778 |
Rousseau, Les Reveries du promeneur solitaire. |
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RecID: 456 |
1778 |
Frances Burney, Evelina. |
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RecID: 457 |
1778 |
Sir Joshua Reynolds, Colonel St. Leger. |
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RecID: 1798 |
1778 |
Clara Reeve, The Old English Baron. |
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RecID: 1806 |
1778 |
Parliament passes the Catholic Relief Act, removing restrictions on land ownership and inheritance. This Act leads to protests and, eventually, the Gordon Riots of 1780. |
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RecID: 1850 |
1778 |
Death of James Baillie, father of Joanna Baillie. Matthew Baillie departs to study medicine at Oxford; the rest of the Baillies return to Lanarkshire. |
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RecID: 2303 |
Mar 1778 |
Ann Wordsworth (nee Cookson), mother of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, dies of illness at the Cookson house, Penrith. She is buried on May 11th. William is age seven at this time. |
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RecID: 458 |
Mar 26, 1778 |
Beethoven's first public concert. |
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RecID: 2304 |
June 13, 1778 |
After the death of her mother, Dorothy Wordsworth leaves at age 7 to live with relatives (William and Elizabeth Threlkeld) in Halifax, Yorkshire. |
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RecID: 459 |
1779 |
Crompton's mule invented (textile production). First iron bridge built over the Severn by John Wilkinson. |
*Industrial Revolution |