| Gray’s “Elegy”
“Capability” Brown lays out Two earthquakes hit London |
1750 |
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| Thomas Sheraton (furniture designer) born
Hogarth’s “Gin Lane” produced |
1751 |
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| John Nash born |
1752 |
Gregorian calendar adopted
Lizard Lighthouse built Benjamin Franklin flies his |
| British Museum founded
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1753 |
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| Chippendale’s”The Gentleman & Cabinet-maker’s Director”
Capt William Bligh born |
1754 |
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| Samuel Johnson’s dictionary published | 1755 |
Dyfi Furnace constructed |
| Start of Seven Years War
Black Hole of Calcutta |
1756 |
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| William Blake born
Antonio Canova (sculptor) born Robert Abbot born |
1757 |
Thomas Telford born |
| Horatio Nelson born |
1758
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Halley’s Comet appears
Jedediah Strutt patents ribbing machine for hosiery manufacture |
| Robert Burns born
William Wilberforce (social reformer) born Robert Adam completes Harewood House British Museum moves to London Battle of Quebec |
1759 |
Harrison’s third chronometer
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| Accession George III
Kew Gardens opens
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1760 |
Harrison’s fourth chronometer (the watch) Start of the Northumbrian |
| Sterne’s “Tristram Shandy”
Osterley Park begun |
1761 |
Bridgewater Canal opens
River Nene made navigable from King’s Lynn to Northampton |
| Chinese pagoda built on the Kew estate
The birth of the sandwich |
1762 |
Matthew Boulton founds the Soho Manufactory |
| End of the Seven Years War | 1763 |
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| William Hogarth dies |
1764 |
Hargreaves invents the Spinning Jenny |
| 1765 |
Watt devises the separate condenser |
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| Wright’s “The Orrery”
Christie’s auctioneers founded. |
1766 |
John Dalton born |
| Bath’s Royal Crescent begun | 1767 |
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| Capt. Cook’s Voyage to the South Seas » 1771
Royal Academy founded Wright’s “The Air Pump” Laurence Sterne dies |
1768 |
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| 1769 |
Watt’s 1st patent
Venetian blinds patented in London Arkwright’s waterframe 1st stretch of James Brindley’s Birmingham Canal opens Wedgwood opens Etruria |
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| William Wordsworth born
Beethoven born Cook discovers Botany Bay |
1770 |
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| Capt. Cook returns from South Seas
Oliver Goldsmith’s “She Stoops to Conquer” Thomas Gray dies |
1771 |
Richard Trevithick born
Henry Maudslay born Arkwright’s Cromford Mill opens |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge born
Cook’s second voyage starts » |
1772 |
James Brindley dies |
| Boston Tea Party
Cook reaches Antarctic
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1773 |
Birmingham Assay Office opens
George III grants Derby the |
| 1774 |
Priestley isolates Oxygen
Bingley Five Rise opens Practical diving suit first demonstrated in the River Thames by Andrew |
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| Bath’s Royal Crescent finished
JMW Turner born Thomas Girtin (English artist) born American War of Independence begins > 1783 Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s “The Rivals” Cook’s second voyage ends » |
1775 |
Official adoption of the name “Lunar Society” |
| American Declaration of Independence – July 4
John Constable born Gibbons “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” Adam Smith’s “Wealth of Nations” Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s “The School for Scandal” Cook’s third voyage starts » |
1776 |
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| Thomas Linley’s “The Beggar’s Opera” | 1777 |
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| Thomas Arne dies (Rule Britannia)
Beau Brummel born |
1778 |
Humphry Davy born
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| Cook killed in Hawaii |
1779 |
Iron Bridge made at Coalbrookdale
Crompton’s Spinning Mule |
| Osterley Park completed
1st Epsom Derby
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1780 |
Watt patents copying press |
| American victory at Yorktown |
1781 |
Watt patents rotary adaptor
William Herschel discovers uranus Horseley Ironworks established |
| Fuseli’s “The Nightmare”
John Sell Cotman born Richard Wilson (Welsh painter) dies |
1782 |
Luigi Galvani discovers “animal electricty” |
| American colonies recognised – end of American Revolution
“Capability” Brown dies William West born
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1783 |
Montgolfier Brothers launch hot air balloon |
| Samuel Johnson dies
East India Act |
1784 |
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| 1st edition of the Daily Universal Register » 1788
John James Audubon born |
1785 |
Cartwright patents the power loom |
| Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro” | 1786 |
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| William Etty born | 1787 |
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| Byron born
Thomas Gainsborough dies Regency Crisis Daily Universal Register becomes The Times First British convicts arrive in Port Jackson (Sydney, Australia) |
1788 |
Gilbert White’s “Natural History of Selborne”Thomas Boulsover dies |
| French Revolution
Washington elected US President Blake’s “Songs of Innocence” Mutiny on the Bounty |
1789 |
Cartwright produces the wool combing machine |
| Culzean Castle completed |
1790 |
Benjamin Franklin dies
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| Paine’s “Rights of Man” “The Observer” newspaper established |
1791 |
Ordnance Survey established
Michael Faraday born Charles Babbage born Heage Windmill built |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley born
Robert Adam dies Joshua Reynolds dies Louvre opens as a public museum in Paris Mary Wollestonecraft’s “Rights of Women” |
1792 |
Richard Arkwright dies |
| War with France Louis XVI executed |
1793 |
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| 1794 |
John Smeaton dies
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| John Keats (poet) born
Admiralty issues daily lemon juice ration to the RN to eliminate scurvy Thomas Carlyle born. (Scottish essayist and historian) |
1795 |
Josiah Wedgwood dies
Nicholas Conte |
| Robert Burns dies |
1796 |
Jenner’s cowpox vaccination tested and smallpox vaccination discovered
Soho Foundry opens Lune Aqueduct completed Grand Junction Canal open as far as Blisworth |
| Joseph Wright of Derby dies
First £1 banknotes issued |
1797 |
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| Malthus “Essay on Population”
Napoleon invades Egypt |
1798 |
Beadnell harbour limekiln built |
| Napoleon appointed First Consul in France
Rosetta Stone found by Eugene Delacroix (artist) born Greene, King Brewery founded Income Tax introduced in Britain |
1799 |
William Withering dies |