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Pheobe BARWICK
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   Date  Event(s)
1 1796 
  • Pitt's "Reign of Terror": More treason trials - leading radicals emigrate
  • 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
2 1797 
  • England in Crisis, Bank of England suspends cash payments
  • Mutinies in the British Navy at Spithead and Nore
  • Tax on newspapers (including cheap, topical journals) increased to repress radical publications
  • The first copper pennies were produced ('cartwheels') by application of steam power to the coining press
  • 22 Feb 1797: French invade Fishguard, Wales; last time UK invaded; all captured 2 days later
  • 26 Feb 1797: First £1 (and £2) notes issued by Bank of England
3 1798 
  • First planned human experiment with vaccination, to test theories of Edward Jenner
  • Feb 1798: The Irish Rebellion; 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die - Irish Parliament abolished (Feb-Oct)
  • 1 Aug 1798: Battle of the Nile (won by Nelson)
4 1799 
  • Foundation of Royal Military College Sandhurst by the Duke of York
  • Foundation of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
  • 9 Jan 1799: Pitt brings in 10% income tax, as a wartime financial measure
  • 12 Jul 1799: 'Combination Laws' in Britain against political associations and combinations
  • 15 Jul 1799: "Rosetta Stone" discovered in Egypt, made possible the deciphering (in 1822) of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
5 1800 
  • Electric light first produced by Sir Humphrey Davy
  • Use of high pressure steam pioneered by Richard Trevithick (1771-1833)
  • Royal College of Surgeons founded
  • Herschel discovers infra-red light
  • Volta makes first electrical battery
  • 2 Jul 1800: Parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland
6 1801 
  • Grand Union Canal opens in England
  • Elgin Marbles brought from Athens to London
  • 1 Jan 1801: Union Jack becomes the official British flag
  • 10 Mar 1801: First census puts the population of England and Wales at 9,168,000. Population of Britain nearly 11 million (75% rural)
  • 24 Dec 1801: Richard Trevithick built the first self-propelled passenger carrying road loco
7 1802 
  • 25 Mar 1802: Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands - the "Peace of Amiens," as it was known, brought a temporary peace of 14 months during the Napoleonic Wars - one of its most important cultural effects was that travel and correspondence across the English Channel became possible again
  

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