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May 25, 1803 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson born, Boston. |
*United States |
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June 30, 1803 |
Thomas Lovell Beddoes born, Clifton, Somerset. |
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July 23, 1803 |
Ireland: Abortive rising by Robert Emmett. |
*Ireland |
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Aug 18, 1803 |
James Beattie dies, Aberdeen, Scotland. |
*Scotland |
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Sept 20, 1803 |
Ireland: Robert Emmett executed. |
*Ireland |
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1804 |
Commons passes a general abolition bill for the first time since 1792. Lords tables the bill on grounds of late reception. Abolitionists resolve to revive activity, but without mass petitioning. Surinam is recaptured by the British. Sugar prices good. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1804 |
Blake, Jerusalem and Milton dated 1804. |
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1804 |
Hölderlin, translation of Antigone and Oedipus Rex with remarks on Sophocles' tragedies. |
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1804 |
Maria Edgeworth, Popular Tales, 3 vols. |
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1804 |
Mary Hays, Harry Clinton. |
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1804 |
Joanna Baillie, Miscellaneous Plays. |
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1804 |
Eliza Fenwick, The Life of Carlo, the Family Dog of Drury Lane Theatre. |
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1804 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, Agrippina, the Wife of Germanicus. |
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1804 |
Publication of Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37. |
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1804 |
Ferdinando Paer, Leonore ossia l'amore coniugale. |
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1804 |
Charlotte Smith, Conversations Introducing Poetry |
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1804 - 1805 |
Beethoven, Leonore and Piano Sonata in F minor, Op. 57. |
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1804 - 1808 |
Beethoven, Fifth Symphony in C minor, Op. 67. |
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Jan 12, 1804 |
Blake acquitted of sedition in the Scofield affair. |
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Feb 12, 1804 |
Kant dies. |
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Mar 1804 |
Code Napoléon enacted in France. |
*France |
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Apr 1804 |
Pitt becomes Prime Minister for the second time. |
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Apr 9, 1804 |
Coleridge goes to Malta. |
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May 18, 1804 |
Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France. |
*France |
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Dec 12, 1804 |
Spain declares war on Britain. |
*Spain |
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