William Pitt born.

Gordon Riots

Floriel and Perdita

Byron born Jan 22

The French Revolution

Fall of the Bastille

Darwin: Loves of the Plants

Blake: Songs of Innocence Book of Thel

Russell: Sonnets

Bentham: Principles of Morals and Legislation

12 Apr. Easter

Pear Soap

Walpole dines at 4pm, but many are now dining at 5 or 6 pm.

Paine's Right's of Man

Burke's Reflections on the French revolution

Apr. 4 Easter

Catholic Relief Act

Burns poetry

Cowper translations from the Latin.

Malone puts out an edition of Shakespeare.

Burke. Paine. Bertham.

Boswell: Life of Johnson

Inchbald: Mrs.Simple Story

Radcliffe:Romance of the Forest

Smith, Charlotte: Celestina, A Novel

The French king fled and was captured

Burke separates from Fox and supports the government.

J.B. Priestly, an advanced scientist, had his home in Birmingham destroyed.

Oh dear What can the Matter be? published in London.

The Observer started in London.

Mozart : Cosi Fan Tutti

Sheraton: The Cabinet Makers, Upholsters Drawing Book

24 Apr. Easter

Warren Hastings is acquitted after a trial of several years. Hastings was a connection of the Austens. He had been charged with wrongdoing in India. Eventually this trial lead to the Crown taking over the governing of India.

Charles Lamb goes to work at India House where he will spend most of his life.

Sir Joshua Reynolds died.

Keats and Shelley are born.

Blake: Song Of Liberty

Burke: Collected Works

Wollstonecroft: Vindication of the Rights of Women

Bligh: Voyage to the South Seas in The Bounty

Gilpin: Essays on Picturesque Beauty

Bage: Man as He Is

Smith, Charlotte: Desmond

Aiken and Barbauld: Evenings at Home, Miscellaneous for Children

The Terror in France. September massacres.

Riot in London in June.

8 Apr. Easter

John Frost, a leading member of the corresponding committee, arrested.

Fear of French and Jacobinsism. Repressive measures passed by the government.

Edward Stone presented a paper in which he claims that the salicytic acid in an infusion of willow bark could be used to alleviate the symptoms of argues or, an ingredient found in willow bark and modern aspirins helps people who have colds.

The Landsdowne crescent was built in Bath. A Board of Agriculture was established to increase food production as Britain was suffering from a lack of imports.

31 Mar. Easter

Danton was executed in France in April.

The end of the Terror.

Howe's naval victory.

Gibbon died.

Drury Lane theatre rebuilt.

Blake: Songs of Experience Europe Urizen

Coleridge: Monody on Chitterton

Southey: Fall of Robespierre

Wolcott:Peter Pindar's Collected Works

Paine: Age of Reason

Darwin:Zoonomia

Godwin: Caleb Williams

Holcroft: High Treason

Radcliffe: Mysteries of Udolpho

Smith,C.: The Banished Man

Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act.

Seditious meetings act and Treasonable practices act passed.

20 Apr. Easter

Death of Boswell.

Blake: Book of Las, Book of Ahani sp

Landor:Poems

Lloyd: Poems

D'Israeli: Essay on Literary Character

Radcliffe: Journey through Holland, Journey through Germany

Lewis: Ambrosio or the Monk

Smith, C.: Montalbert

The Morning Post Newspaper was bought by Daniel Stuart.

An Aberdeen surgeon suspects cause of childbed fever.

Poor harvest.

Scurvy prevention is tried in the Navy.

Speenhamland Poor Laws.

5 Apr. Easter

1796

Leap year.

27 Mar. Easter

Burns died.

Mary Lamb kills her mother and wounds her father in a fit of insanity. She is placed in a private asylum. Her brother Charles agrees to be responsible for her. They live together until Charles dies though Mary goes to an asylum periodically.

Coleridge: Poems on Various Subjects

Scott: The Chase

Southey: Joan of Arc

Burke: Letter to a Noble Lord. Letters on Regicide

Cobbett: Life Adventures of Peter Porcupine

Street: Dresses and Habits of English People

Bage: Hermsping

Burney: Camilla

Edgeworth: The Parent's Assistant

Moore: Edward

Smith, C.: Marchmont

Daniel Stuart bought The Courier another newspaper.

Copper pennies and a one pound note issued. Poor wheat harvest. Bank of England stops payments in species.

1797

16 Jan. Farington saw exhibit of rattle snakes.

A Miss Fortnum, whose father owned a grocery business, dined with the Freemantles who sometimes dined with the Buckinghams and Grenvilles as Freemantle was a Catholic naval officer.

The annual consumption of tea has grown to two pounds a person.

Orange marmalade is bottled for retail.

16 Apr. Easter

2 June Royal Exhibition showed Turner's seaview of fishing vessels.

9 June Ventriloquist.

A witness saw 78 carriages in two miles of road.

8 Jan. Hamlet and Bluebeard playing at Drury Lane. Bluebeard a dramatic romance had words written by Geo. Colman the Younger. Michael Kelly's music enjoyed some popularity for years.

The fashion is now to be almost naked with low necklines and backs exposed.

A play Speed The Plough introduces the audience to Mrs. Grundy.

Haydn's Mass in D Minor comes out. Later this work is called Nelson's Mass.

People in all walks of life bought lottery tickets.

The Summer of the French Invasion.

Edgeworth, Maria. Practical Education

11 July Miss Linwood's Exhibition of Needlework.

It snowed on December 17.

Pitt passes an income tax. 10% on incomes over 200 pounds.60, 199 pounds taxed at reduced rate. There were deductions for children, life insurance, upkeep of property, and tithes. A savings bank opened.

Buonaparte unsuccessful at Acre. Returns to France. Directorate rejected in France. Buonapate named First Counsel.

The Religious Tract Society founded.

Campbell: Pleasures of Hope

Lewis: Tales of Terror

Scott: Translations from German

Southey and Coleridge: Devil's Thought. Annual Anthology. Turner: History of England from the Norman Conquest

Darwin: Phygia

Park: Travels in the Interior of Africa

Godwin: St. Leon

Lewis: The East Indian

Davy discovers laughing gas.

24 Mar. Easter