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1790 |
Charlotte Lennox, Euphemia. |
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1790 |
Amelia Opie, The Dangers of Coquetry. |
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1790 |
Ann Radcliffe, The Sicilian Romance. |
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1790 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporate and Test Acts. |
*Religious Controversy |
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1790 |
Beethoven, Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II; Cantata on the Elevation of Leopold II to the Imperial Dignity. |
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1790 |
Mozart, Così fan tutte (Vienna). |
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1790 |
Henry James Pye becomes poet laureate. |
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1790 |
Joanna Baillie, Poems; Wherein It Is Attempted to Describe Certain Views of Nature and Rustic Manners and Arnold (a lost play). |
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1790 |
Collection of Testimonies in Favour of Religious Liberty published. |
*Anglo-Jewish History
*Catholics |
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Feb 9, 1790 |
Edmund Burke, "Speech on the Army Estimates." |
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Mar 4, 1790 |
Henry Flood, M.P., proposes Parliamentary Reform; that is, he proposes reforming the system for electing members to the House of Commons. |
*Parliamentary Reform |
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July 12, 1790 |
French Revolution: Civil constitution of the Clergy (the state gets clergy's tithes and property). |
*French Revolution |
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July 13, 1790 |
William Wordsworth arrives in Calais with friend Robert Jones on his first trip to the Continent. The pair arrive just in time for the French Festival of Federation commemorating the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille (July 14) and begin their walking tour of Europe, including the Alps. |
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July 14, 1790 |
French Revolution: Marquis de Lafayette, general who formerly fought with George Washington, presides over the Fête of Federation, the celebration in Paris (and elsewhere in France) commemorating Bastille day of 1789. |
*French Revolution |
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Oct 1790 |
Habeas Corpus Act suspended. |
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Nov 1, 1790 |
Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France. |
*French Revolution
*Revolution Controversy in England |
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Nov 29, 1790 |
Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Men published anonymously. |
*French Revolution |
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Dec 1790 |
George Rous, Thoughts on Government. |
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1791 |
Abolition: Commons approves a charter for Sierra Leone, its company pledged to oppose the slave trade in Africa. Sugar prices rise steeply. |
*Abolition |
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1791 |
French Revolution: The Pope condemns the new French constitution. |
*French Revolution |
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1791 |
James Boswell, Life of Johnson. |
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1791 |
Proofs of Blake, The French Revolution (not published). |
*French Revolution |
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1791 |
William Lisle Bowles, "A Poetical Address to Burke." |
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1791 |
Elizabeth Inchbald, A Simple Story. |
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1791 |
Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest. |
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