 1780 - 1788 (8 years)
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Date |
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| 1 | 1780 | - 1780: Male Servants Tax
- 1780: The English Reform Movement until now, only landowners and tenants (freeholders
with 40 shillings per year or more) allowed to vote, and in open poll books
- 1780: Fountain pen invented
- 1780: About this time the word 'Quiz' entered the language, said to have been invented as a
wager by Mr Daly, a Dublin theatre manager
- 4 May 1780: First Derby run at Epsom (some say 2nd June)
- 2 Jun 1780: Jun 28: The Gordon Riots Parliament passes a Roman Catholic relief measure for
days, London is at the mercy of a mob and destruction is widespread
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| 2 | 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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| 3 | 1783 | - 1783: Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry repealed 1794) led to a fall in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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| 4 | 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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| 5 | 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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| 6 | 1787 | - 1787: MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) established at Thomas Lord's ground in London
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| 7 | 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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