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RecID: 419 |
1773 |
The Boston Tea Party staged by American colonials. |
*American Revolution
*Boston Tea Party |
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RecID: 420 |
1773 |
Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer.
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RecID: 422 |
1773 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, with John Aikin, Miscellaneous Pieces in Prose (September). Barbauld's Poems, actually published in December 1772 though dated 1773, goes through five editions. |
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RecID: 423 |
1773 |
Hannah More, The Search After Happiness. |
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RecID: 424 |
1773 |
Thomas Day, "The Dying Negro." |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 425 |
1773 |
Henry Mackenzie, The Man of the World. |
*Sensibility |
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RecID: 426 |
1773 |
William Blake, earliest picture "Joseph of Arimathea." |
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RecID: 421 |
1773 - 1792 |
Lord Monboddo, Origin and Progress of Languages. |
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RecID: 2301 |
Jan 6, 1773 |
John Wordsworth, younger brother of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. |
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RecID: 427 |
1774 |
Warren Hastings becomes the first Governor General of India. |
*India |
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RecID: 428 |
1774 |
Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther. |
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RecID: 429 |
1774 |
Thomas Warton, History of English Poetry. |
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RecID: 430 |
1774 |
Hannah More, The Inflexible Captive. |
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RecID: 431 |
1774 |
John Wesley, Thoughts upon Slavery (an
abolition tract). |
*Abolition
*Methodism |
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RecID: 432 |
1774 |
Christoph Willibald Gluck, Iphigénie en Aulide (Paris; in Vienna 1808).
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RecID: 2342 |
1774 |
Donaldson v. Becket: the decision made in Millar v. Taylor is here reversed -- copyrights are now seen as more like patents, and hence of limited duration, as conceived in the Statute of Queen Anne. |
*copyright |
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RecID: 2302 |
June 9, 1774 |
Christopher Wordsworth, younger brother of William and Dorothy Wordsworth, born in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. |
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RecID: 433 |
1775 |
War with American Colonies begins. |
*American Revolution
*Colonialism |
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RecID: 434 |
1775 |
Joseph Priestley, Hartley's Theory of the Human Mind. (Coleridge uses this edition.)
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RecID: 435 |
1775 |
Samuel Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. |
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RecID: 436 |
Apr 19, 1775 |
Hannah More's The Inflexible Captive (1774) staged at Bath. |
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RecID: 437 |
Apr 23, 1775 |
Joseph Mallord William Turner born, London. |
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RecID: 438 |
1776 |
First comprehensive bill for parliamentary reform, proposed by Wilkes, rejected. |
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RecID: 439 |
1776 |
Hannah More, "Ballad of Bleeding Rock," Sir Eldred of the Bower. |
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RecID: 440 |
1776 |
Adam Smith, Enquiry into the Wealth of Nations. |
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