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RecID: 337 |
1757 |
The Nawab of Bengal tries to expell the British, but is defeated at the battle of Plassy; the East India Company forces are led by Robert Clive, who then sets up a puppet as Nawab and changes money and land for the services of the East India Company army. |
*India
*Colonialism |
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RecID: 338 |
1757 |
Edmund Burke, Philosophical Enquiry in the Origin of our Ideas on the Sublime and the Beautiful. |
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RecID: 339 |
1757 |
Diderot's Fils Naturel published, followed by Entretiens avec Dorval (birth of Melodrama).
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RecID: 340 |
1757 |
David Hume, "Of Tragedy." |
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RecID: 341 |
1757 |
Sarah Fielding, Cleopatra and Octavia. |
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RecID: 342 |
1757 |
Samuel Johnson, "Review of Soame Jenyns' A Free Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Evil." |
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RecID: 343 |
Nov 28, 1757 |
William Blake born, London. |
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RecID: 344 |
1758 |
India stops being merely a commercial venture; England begins dominating it politically. The
East India Company retains its monopoly although it ceased to trade.
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*India
*Colonialism
*East India Company |
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RecID: 345 |
1758 |
David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. |
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RecID: 346 |
1758 |
Rousseau, Lettre á d'Alembert sur les spectacles. |
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RecID: 347 |
1758 |
Diderot, Père du famille followed by Discours sur la poésie dramatique.
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RecID: 349 |
1758 |
Charlotte Lennox, Henrietta. |
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RecID: 348 |
1758 - 1760 |
Thomas Gainsborough, The Painter's Daughters with a Cat. |
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RecID: 350 |
1758 - 1760 |
Samuel Johnson publishes the periodical The Idler. |
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RecID: 351 |
1759 |
Samuel Johnson, Rasselas. |
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RecID: 352 |
1759 |
Voltaire, Candide. |
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RecID: 353 |
1759 |
Edward Young, "Conjectures on Original Composition." |
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RecID: 354 |
1759 |
Oliver Goldsmith, On the Present State of Polite Learning. |
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RecID: 355 |
1759 |
Sarah Fielding, The Countess of Dellwyn. |
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RecID: 356 |
1759 |
Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments. |
*Sensibility |
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RecID: 357 |
1759 |
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Letters on Literature (1759-65). |
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RecID: 358 |
Jan 25, 1759 |
Robert Burns born, Alloway, Ayrshire, Scotland. |
*Scotland |
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RecID: 359 |
1760 |
The date conventionally marking the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (the so-called "First Industrial Revolution"). Jonas Hanway and D. Porter campaign against the exploitation of children as Chimney Sweeps. |
*Economics
*Industrial Revolution
*Child Labor |
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RecID: 360 |
1760 |
George Lyttleton, Dialogues of the Dead. |
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RecID: 362 |
1760 |
Sarah Fielding, Ophelia. |
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