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| 1784 |
| | | A 24-year-old, William Pitt the Younger, is appointed Britain's prime minister by George III | |
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| 1784 |
| | | English ironmaster Henry Cort patents a process for puddling iron which produces a pure and malleable metal | |
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| 1784 |
| | | The first mail coach leaves Bristol for London, introducing a new era of faster transport | |
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| 1785 |
| | | Mozart and his friends perform for Haydn the Mozart quartets inspired by Haydn's 'Russian' quartets (op.33), which on publication are dedicated to him | |
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| 1785 |
| | | The French queen Marie Antoinette is wrongly implicated in a scandal involving a diamond necklace | |
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| c. 1785 |
| | | French physicist Charles Augustin de Coulomb begins publishing his discoveries in the field of electricity and magnetism | |
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| 1785 |
| | | James Hutton describes to the Royal Society of Edinburgh his studies of local rocks , launching the era of scientific geology | |
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| 1785 |
| | | William Withering's Account of the Foxglove describes the use of digitalis for dropsy, and its possible application to heart disease | |
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| 1785 |
| | | Napoleon graduates from his military college and is commissioned in an artillery regiment | |
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| 1785 |
| | | French sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon crosses the Atlantic to sculpt a statue of George Washington from the life at Mount Vernon | |
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| 1786 |
| | | Mozart's Marriage of Figaro premieres in Vienna and then has a huge success in Prague | |
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| 1786 |
| | | The emperor Joseph II is reported to have told Mozart that his opera The Marriage of Figaro has 'too many notes' | |
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| 1786 |
| | | US author Philip Freneau publishes his first collection of poems, dating back to 1771 | |
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| 1786 |
| | | Daniel Shays is the most prominent figure in a violent protest movement by farmers against the government of Massachusetts | |
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| 1786 |
| | | Francisco de Goya is appointed painter to the king of Spain, Charles III | |
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| 1787 |
| | | French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier publishes a system for classifying and naming chemical substances | |
|  | Antoine and Marie Lavoisier in their laboratory
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1787 |
| | | The Continental Congress passes the Northwest Ordinance, a plan for the establishment of new states north and west of the Ohio river | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The French finance minister, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, is dismissed when his proposed reforms meet aristocratic opposition | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade is founded in London, with a strong Quaker influence | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The First Fleet (eleven ships carrying about 750 convicts) leaves Portsmouth for Australia | |
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| 1787 |
| | | A British ship lands a party of freed slaves as the first modern settlers in Sierra Leone, on the west coast of Africa | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Scottish engineer James Watt devises the governor, the first example of industrial automation | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Delegates meeting in Philadelphia agree a final draft for a US consitution, to be submitted to the states for ratification | |
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| 1787 |
| | | The Federalist Papers, in support of the Constitution and mainly written by Alexander Hamilton, begin appearing in New York | |
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| 1787 |
| | | Mozart's opera Don Giovanni has its premiere in Prague | |
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| 1788 |
| | | After a journey of eight months from England the First Fleet reaches Australia, anchoring in Botany Bay | |
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| 1788 |
| | | Arthur Phillip, selecting a suitable coastal site for the first penal colony in Australia, names the place Sydney Cove | |
|  | Map of Australia showing the distribution of convicts, c.1820
National Archives, Kew
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| 1788 |
| | | The constitution of the United States is ratified by the states, but it is immediately agreed that amendments will be desirable | |
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| 1788 |
| | | Tiradentes (the 'puller of teeth') leads the first rebellion against Portuguese rule in Brazil | |
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| 1788 |
| | | The ministers of Louis XVI reluctantly announce that the estates general will meet in 1789, for the first time since 1614 | |
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| 1788 |
| | | Spain's affairs are controlled by Manuel de Godoy, lover of the queen, Maria Luisa | |
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| 1789 |
| | | England's champion pugilist, the Jewish prize-fighter Daniel Mendoza, publishes The Art of Boxing | |
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| 1789 |
| | | George Washington, unanimously elected first president of the United States, is inaugurated on Wall Street in New York | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Alexander Hamilton becomes secretary of the treasury in the administration of George Washington, whose federalist views he shares | |
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| 1789 |
| | | A pamphlet published in France by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès asks a challenging question, What is the Third Estate? | |
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