 1781 - 1793 (12 years)
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Date |
Event(s) |
| 1 | 1782 | - 1782: Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief the way of life of the poor beginning to
alter due to industrialisation New factories in rapidly expanding towns required a workforce
that would adjust to new work patterns
- 1782: James Watt patents his steam engine
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| 2 | 1783 | - 1783: Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry repealed 1794) led to a fall in
entries!
- 3 Sep 1783: Treaty of Versailles (Britain/US)
- 3 Nov 1783: Last public execution at Tyburn in London (John Austin, a highwayman)
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| 3 | 1784 | - 1784: Pitt's India Act the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has
power to guide Indian politics
- 1784: Wesley breaks with the Church of England
- 1784: First golf club founded at St Andrews
- 1784: Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle
- 2 Aug 1784: First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol / 8am London)
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| 4 | 1785 | - 1785: Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2
million)
- 1 Jan 1785: John Walter publishes first edition of The Times (called The Daily Universal
Register for 3 years)
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| 5 | 1787 | - 1787: MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) established at Thomas Lord's ground in London
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| 6 | 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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| 7 | 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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| 8 | 1790 | - 1790: Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
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| 9 | 1791 | - 1791: John Bell, printer, abandons the "long s" (the "s" that looks like an "f")
- 1791: Establishment of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
- 4 Dec 1791: First publication of The Observer world's oldest Sunday newspaper
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| 10 | 1792 | - 1792: Repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press) Fox gets Libel Act through
Parliament, requiring a jury and not a judge to determine libel
- 1792: Boyle's Street Directory published
- 1792: Coal-gas lighting invented by William Murdock, an Ayrshire Scot
- 1 Oct 1792: Introduction of Money Orders in Britain
- 1 Dec 1792: King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia
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| 11 | 1793 | - 11 Feb 1793: Britain declares war on France (1793-1802)
- 15 Apr 1793: £5 notes first issued by the Bank of England
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