 1795 - 1796 (1 years)
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| 1 | 1795 | - 1795: The Famine Year
- 1795: Foundation of the Orange Order
- 1795: Speenhamland Act proclaims that the Parish is responsible for bringing up the labourer's
wage to subsistence level towards the end of the eighteenth century, the number of poor and
unemployed increased dramatically price increases during the Napoleonic Wars
(1793-1815) far outstripped wage rises many small farmers were bankrupted by the move
towards enclosures and became landless labourers their wages were often pitifully low
- 1795: Pitt and Grenville introduce "The Gagging Acts" or "Two Bills" (the Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices Bills) outlawed the mass meeting and the political lecture.
- 1795: Consumption of lime juice made compulsory in Royal Navy
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| 2 | 1796 | - 1796: Pitt's "Reign of Terror": More treason trials leading radicals emigrate
- 1796: Legacy Tax on sums over £20 excluding those to wives, children, parents and
grandparents
- 14 May 1796: Dr Edward Jenner gave first vaccination for smallpox in England
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