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   Date  Event(s)
1 1774 
  • 13 Sep 1774: Cook arrives on Easter Island
2 1775 
  • 19 Apr 1775: Battle of Lexington: first action in American War of Independence (1775 - 1783)
3 1776 
  • Somerset House in London becomes the repository of records of population
  • Watt and Boulton produce their first commercial steam engine
  • 4 Jul 1776: American Declaration of Independence
  • 7 Sep 1776: First attack on a warship by a submarine - David Bushnell's "Turtle" attacked HMS Eagle in New York harbour. The attack was perhaps spectacular (a charge did detonate beneath the ship), but was nevertheless unsuccessful. "Turtle" was a one man affair, man-powered [Les Moore]
4 1777 
  • Samuel Miller of Southampton patents the circular saw.
5 1779 
  • Marc Isambard Brunel opens the first steamdriven sawmill at Chatham Dockyard in Kent
  • First iron bridge built, over the Severn by John Wilkinson
  • First Spinning Mills operational in Scotland
  • 14 Feb 1779: Capt James Cook killed on Hawaii
  • 23 Sep 1779: Naval engagement between Britain and USA off Flamborough Head
6 1780 
  • Male Servants Tax
  • 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
  • Fountain pen invented
  • 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
7 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
  • James Watt patents his steam engine
8 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  • Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794) - led to a fall in entries!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)
9 1784 
  • Pitt's India Act - the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has power to guide Indian politics
  • Wesley breaks with the Church of England
  • First golf club founded at St Andrews
  • Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle
  • 2 Aug 1784: First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol / 8am London)
10 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)
11 1787 
  • MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) established at Thomas Lord's ground in London
12 1788 
  • First steamboat demonstrated in Scotland
  • Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old (not enforced)
  • First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade - stipulates more humane conditions on slave ships
  • 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
  • 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
13 1789 
  • 28 Apr 1789: Mutiny on HMS Bounty - Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew ends up on Pitcairn Island
14 1790 
  • Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
15 1791 
  • John Bell, printer, abandons the "long s" (the "s" that looks like an "f")
  • Establishment of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
  • 4 Dec 1791: First publication of The Observer - world's oldest Sunday newspaper
16 1792 
  • Repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press) - Fox gets Libel Act through Parliament, requiring a jury and not a judge to determine libel
  • Boyle's Street Directory published
  • Coal-gas lighting invented by William Murdock, an Ayrshire Scot
  • 1 Oct 1792: Introduction of Money Orders in Britain
  • 1 Dec 1792: King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia
17 1793 
  • 11 Feb 1793: Britain declares war on France (1793-1802)
  • 15 Apr 1793: £5 notes first issued by the Bank of England
18 1794 
  • Abolition of Parish Register duties
  • 6 Oct 1794: The prosecutor for Britain, Lord Justice Eyre, charges reformers with High Treason - he argued that, since reform of parliament would lead to revolution and revolution to executing the King, the desire for reform endangered the King's life and was therefore treasonous
  

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