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RecID: 525 |
Feb 1787 |
Robert Blake (brother of William Blake) dies of consumption. |
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RecID: 2313 |
Apr 1, 1787 |
Probably on this date William Wordsworth publishes his first poem, "Sonnet, on Seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress." It is signed "Axiologus" and appears in the March issue of The European Magazine. |
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RecID: 2314 |
Oct 30, 1787 |
William Wordsworth probably arrives in Cambridge on this day, where he becomes a student in St. John's College (Cambridge U.). He is a student at Cambridge until January 1791. |
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RecID: 526 |
1788 |
King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis: Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox attack the ministry of William Pitt the Younger by trying to obtain full regal powers for the Prince of Wales. |
*The Regency Crisis
*House of Hanover |
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RecID: 527 |
1788 |
Child Labor: Law is passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old (not enforced). |
*Child Labor |
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RecID: 528 |
1788 |
Manchester launches a mass abolition petition campaign. Privy Council Committee for Trade and Plantations reports on the slave trade. Abolition is raised in Parliament. First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade, stipulating more humane conditions on slave ships. Mass propaganda campaigns begin. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 530 |
1788 |
Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary, a Fiction (a jacobin novel) and Original Stories from Real Life (for children). |
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RecID: 531 |
1788 |
Charlotte Smith, Emmeline. |
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RecID: 532 |
1788 |
Blake, Annotations to Lavater's Aphorisms. |
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RecID: 533 |
1788 |
Hannah More, Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society. |
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RecID: 534 |
1788 |
John Newton, Thoughts Upon the African Slave Trade. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 535 |
1788 |
Thomas Clarkson, Impolicy of the Slave Trade. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 536 |
1788 |
Hannah More, Slavery, A Poem (see also
1790). |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 538 |
1788 |
Ann Yearsley, A Poem on the Inhumanity of the Slave-Trade. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 539 |
1788 |
William Roscoe, Unitarian reformer and future lawyer/banker in Liverpool, writes part I of his
"The Wrongs of Africa," numerous poems, pamphlets, and petitions on abolition, peace, and reform. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 540 |
1788 |
Blake invents "relief etching" (the method he attributed to the dictation by brother Robert's
spirit), producing, All Religions Are One and There is No Natural Religion.
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RecID: 548 |
1788 - 1789 |
Blake's Tiriel written and illustrated, but never illuminated, never "published." |
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RecID: 2316 |
1788 - 1789 |
William Wordsworth composes most of An Evening Walk. The poem is not published until Jan. 29, 1793, when it appears together with another locodescriptive work composed mostly in 1791, Descriptive Sketches. |
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RecID: 522 |
1788 - 1792 |
Usually considered the period of mass abolitionist agitation, led by Clarkson, Wilberforce, and Pitt. The West Indian port system is renewed and expanded (through 1792). Government seeks to expand British colonial cotton growth. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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RecID: 529 |
1788 - 1792 |
Sugar prices begin a general rise. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 541 |
Jan 22, 1788 |
George Gordon, Lord Byron born, London. |
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RecID: 542 |
Feb 1788 |
King George III recovers from madness, leaving Pitt's ministry safe. |
*The Regency Crisis
*House of Hanover |
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RecID: 543 |
May 1788 |
Analytical Review begins publication. |
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RecID: 544 |
May 9, 1788 |
Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces legislation to regulate the slave trade. |
*Abolition |
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RecID: 546 |
1789 |
William Wilberforce introduces resolutions on the
slave trade in Parliament. Commons agrees to hear evidence. The Dolben act is now renewed annually.
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*Abolition |