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1796 |
More treason trials; leading radicals emigrate. |
*The Two Bills |
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1796 |
Wolfe Tone arrives in France. |
*Ireland
*French Revolution |
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1796 |
Napoleon Bonaparte's Italian victories. |
*French Revolution |
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1796 |
Commons narrowly defeats abolition. The Dolben act is not renewed because of oversight. British troops retake slave islands from French. |
*Abolition |
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1796 |
W. Wordsworth composes The Borderers. A Tragedy mostly between fall 1796 and spring 1797, culminating in the Early Version of 1799 (the first surviving manuscript of the complete play). |
*Romantic Drama |
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1796 |
Thomas Paine, The Age Of Reason (Part II) and Agrarian Justice. |
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1796 |
Frances Burney, Camilla. |
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1796 |
Maria Edgeworth, The Parent's Assistant. |
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1796 |
Elizabeth Inchbald, Nature and Art |
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1796 |
Matthew G. Lewis, The Monk |
*The Gothic |
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1796 |
Goethe, Wilhelm Meister (Pt. I). |
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1796 |
Denis Diderot, Jacques le fataliste. |
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1796 |
Mary Hays, Memoirs of Emma Courtney. |
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1796 |
Charlotte Smith, Marchmont. |
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1796 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, Letters of a Hindoo Rajah. |
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1796 |
Beethoven, Sonatas in F major and G minor, Op. 5; Adelaide, Op. 46. He also tours Prague, Dresden, Leipzig, and Berlin. |
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1796 |
Charlotte Smith, Rambles Farther: a continuation of Rural Walks . . . for the use of Young Persons (juvenile fiction, in dialogues) |
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Jan 9, 1796 |
Coleridge tours the Midlands to sell The Watchman. He gives "sermons" (i.e., political lectures, sometimes wearing black like a priest: "Preaching spread a sort of sanctity over my Sedition". |
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Feb 6, 1796 |
John Binns and John Gale Jones, missionary delegates from the London Corresponding Society, are sent to rural reform societies to explain how to evade and not challenge the "Gagging Acts" or "Two Bills." |
*Radicalism
*The Two Bills |
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Feb 24, 1796 |
Edmund Burke, "A Letter to a Noble Lord": Burke's virtuosic answer to the Duke of Bedford, who attacked him for having accepted a large pension from the King. |
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Mar 1796 |
The Insurrection Act (curfews, arms searches, the death penalty for oath taking). |
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Mar 1, 1796 |
Coleridge, The Watchman, first issue. It runs until 13 May, 1796. Motto: "That All may know the TRUTH / And that the TRUTH may make us FREE!" |
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Mar 11, 1796 |
John Binns and John Gale Jones are arrested and imprisoned in Birmingham; Francis Place is sent to defend them; they will be tried for violating the "Two Bills" (for the government and the radicals, a test case). Binns is acquitted in Aug. 1800, but Jones is convicted of sedition in April 1799, although never sentenced. The cost of defending them, bail, and the missions themselves contribute to downfall of the London Corresponding Society. |
*Radicalism
*The Two Bills |
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Apr 16, 1796 |
Coleridge, Poems on Various Subjects. |
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July 1, 1796 |
London Corresponding Society's Moral and Political Magazine is published monthly until May 1797. |
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