| Gray's "Elegy" "Capability" Brown lays out Warwick Castle Grounds Two earthquakes hit London |
1750 |
|
| Thomas Sheraton (furniture designer) born Hogarth's "Gin Lane" produced |
1751 |
|
| John Nash
born |
1752 |
Gregorian
calendar adopted Lizard Lighthouse built Benjamin Franklin flies his kite |
| British Museum founded |
1753 |
|
| Chippendale's "The
Gentleman & Cabinet-maker's Director" Capt William Bligh born |
1754 |
|
| Samuel Johnson's
dictionary published |
1755 |
Dyfi
Furnace constructed |
| Start of Seven Years
War Black Hole of Calcutta |
1756 |
|
| William Blake born Antonio Canova (sculptor) born Robert Abbot born |
1757 |
Thomas Telford born |
| Horatio Nelson born |
1758 |
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 |
| Accession George III
Kew Gardens opens |
1760 |
Harrison's
fourth chronometer
(the watch) Start of the Northumbrian lime industry |
| 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 |
|
| William Hogarth
dies |
1764 |
Hargreaves
invents the Spinning
Jenny |
| 1765 |
Watt devises
the
separate
condenser |
|
| Wright's "The
Orrery" Christie's auctioneers founded. |
1766 |
John Dalton
born |
| Bath's Royal
Crescent begun |
1767 |
|
| Capt. Cook's Voyage
to the South Seas » 1771 Royal Academy founded Wright's "The Air Pump" Laurence Sterne dies |
1768 |
|
| 1769 |
Watt's
1st patent Venetian blinds patented in London Arkwright's waterframe patented 1st stretch of James Brindley's Birmingham Canal opens Wedgwood opens Etruria |
|
| William Wordsworth
born Beethoven born Cook discovers Botany Bay |
1770 |
|
| 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 » 1775 |
1772 |
James Brindley
dies |
| Boston Tea Party Cook reaches Antarctic |
1773 |
Birmingham
Assay Office opens George III grants Derby the right to put a crown on its pottery >> 1890 |
| 1774 |
Priestley
isolates Oxygen Bingley Five Rise opens Practical diving suit first demonstrated in the River Thames by Andrew Becker |
|
| 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 » 1776 |
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 » 1779 |
1776 |
|
| Thomas Linley's "The Beggar's Opera" |
1777 |
|
| Thomas Arne dies (Rule Britannia) Beau Brummel born |
1778 |
Humphry Davy
born |
| Cook killed in Hawaii |
1779 |
Iron
Bridge made at Coalbrookdale Crompton's Spinning Mule |
| Osterley Park
completed 1st Epsom Derby |
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 |
1783 |
Montgolfier
Brothers launch hot
air balloon |
| Samuel Johnson dies East India Act |
1784 |
|
| 1st edition of the
Daily Universal Register » 1788 John James Audubon born |
1785 |
Cartwright patents the power loom |
| Mozart's "Marriage
of Figaro" |
1786 |
|
| William Etty born |
1787 |
|
| 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 |
| 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 |
|
| 1794 |
John
Smeaton dies |
|
| John Keats (poet) born Admiralty issues daily lemon juice ration to the RN to eliminate scurvy Thomas Carlyle born. (Scottish essayist and historian) Ickworth House built |
1795 |
Josiah Wedgwood dies Nicholas Conte invents the "lead" pencil |
| 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 |
|
| Malthus "Essay on
Population" Napoleon invades Egypt |
1798 |
Beadnell
harbour limekiln built |
| Napoleon
appointed First Consul in France Rosetta Stone found by Napoleon's troops Stourbridge Bonded Warehouse begun Eugene Delacroix (artist) born Greene, King Brewery founded Income Tax introduced in Britain |
1799 |
William Withering dies |