 1787 - 1790 (3 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1787 | - 1787: MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) established at Thomas Lord's ground in London
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| 2 | 1788 | - 1788: First steamboat demonstrated in Scotland
- 1788: Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old (not
enforced)
- 1788: First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade stipulates
more humane conditions on slave ships
- 1788: King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis Edmund Burke and
Charles James Fox attack ministry of William Pitt trying to obtain full regal powers for the
Prince of Wales
- 1788: Gibbon completes "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
- 26 Jan 1788: First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales (left Portsmouth 13
May 1787) the 'First Fleet'; eleven ships commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip
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| 3 | 1789 | - 28 Apr 1789: Mutiny on HMS Bounty Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift
and the rebel crew ends up on Pitcairn Island
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| 4 | 1790 | - 1790: Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
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