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1775 American War of Independence

11775-83)

1 7 8 0 G o r d o n R i o t s i n L o n d o n

f 783 William Pitt becomes prime

minister (serving until 1801 and again in

1 8 0 4 - 6 )

1 7 8 4 D e a t h o f S a m u e l J o h n s o n

1787 W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni. Society

for the Aboljtion of the Slave Trade founded

1789 Fall of the Bastille (beginning of

the French Revolution)

1790 J. M. W. Turner first exhibits at the

Royal Academy

179l Revolution in Santo Domingo

(modern Haiti)

1792 September Massacres in Paris.

First gas lights in Britain

1793 Execution of Louis XVI and Marie

Antoinette. France declares war against

Britain (and then Britain against France).

The Reign of Terror

1794 The fall ofRobespierre. Trials for

high treason of members of the London

Corresponding Society

1795 Pitt's Gagging Acts suppress

freedom of speech and assembly in

Britain

1797 Mary Wollstonecraft dies from

complications of childbirth

1773 Anna Letitia Aikin (later Barbauld),

Poems

1774 J.W. von Goethe] The Sonows of /

YoungWerther

1776 Adam Smith, Tr?e Wealth of Nations

1778 Frances Burney' Etelina

1779 Samuel Johnson, Lives of the

English Po ets (17 7 9 -81)

l78l Immanuel Kant, Citique of Pure

Bereon. Jean-Jac1ues Rousseau, Confessions'

J. C. Friedrich Schiller,The Robbers

1784 Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets

1785 William Cowper, The Taslt

1786 William Beckford, Vqthek. Robert

Burns, Poems, Chiefl.y in the Scottish Dialect

1789 Jeremy Bentham, Principles of

Morals and. Legislction. William Blake,

Songs of Innocence

1790 Joanna Baillie, Poems. Blake, The

Maniage of Hemn anA. Hell, Edmund Burke,

Reflections on the Reuolution in France

l79I William Gilpin, Obsenations on the

River Wya Thomas Paine, Rights of Man,

Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest

1792 Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication

of the Rights of Wonan

1793 William Godwin, Political Justice

1794 Blake, Songs ofExperience.

Godwin, Caleb Willians. Radcliffe, The

Mysteries oJ Udolpho

1796 Matthew Gregory Lewis' The Monh

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