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| 1789 |
| | | William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence, a volume of his poems with every page etched and illustrated by himself | |
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| 1789 |
| | | In his Principles Jeremy Bentham defines 'utility' as that which enhances pleasure and reduces pain | |
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| 1789 |
| | | A left-wing political club begins to meet in a Jacobin convent in Paris, thus becoming known as the Jacobins | |
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| 1789 |
| | | The autobiography of Olaudah Equiano, a slave captured as a child in Africa, becomes a best-seller on both sides of the Atlantic | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Alexander Mackenzie explores by canoe from central Canada through the Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Delegates of the Third Estate swear an oath in a tennis court at Versailles, pledging themselves not to disperse until France has a constitution | |
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| 1789 |
| | | The painter Jacques-Louis David sketches the events in the Versailles tennis court | |
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| 1789 |
| | | An excited Paris mob liberates the seven prisoners held in the forbidding fortress of the Bastille | |
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| 1789 |
| | | US painter and author William Dunlap has great success with his comedy The Father; or, American Shandyism | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Parisians force their way into the palace at Versailles and insist on Louis XVI and his royal family accompanying them back to Paris | |
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| 1789 |
| | | French doctor Joseph-Ignace Guillotin proposes a decapitation machine as a more humane form of capital punishment | |
|  | Marie Antoinette kneeling before the guillotine, 1793
Wellcome Library, London
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| 1789 |
| | | Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against the captain, William Bligh | |
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| 1789 |
| | | Francisco de Goya is appointed court painter to the new Spanish king, Charles IV | |
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| 1790 |
| | | Mozart's opera Così fan Tutte has its premiere in Vienna, in the court theatre of Joseph II | |
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| c. 1790 |
| | | A second great revivalist movement sweeps northeast America, inspired by the earlier example of Jonathan Edwards | |
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| 1790 |
| | | Joseph Haydn sets off for England, where impresario Johann Peter Salomon presents his London symphonies | |
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| 1790 |
| | | A second fleet arrives in Sydney, bringing more convicts and a regiment, the New South Wales Corps, to keep order | |
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| 1790 |
| | | The Potomac is chosen as the navigable river on which the new US capital city will be sited | |
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| 1790 |
| | | The USA becomes the first nation to establish a regular census as a systematic check on the size of the population | |
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| 1790 |
| | | Anglo-Irish politician Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, a blistering attack on recent events across the Channel | |
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| 1790 |
| | | English painter J.M.W. Turner is only 15 when a painting of his, a watercolour, is first exhibited at the Royal Academy | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Under the guidance of Alexander Hamilton the First Bank of the United States is established in Philadelphia | |
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| 1791 |
| | | The Canadian Constitution Act divides Quebec into Upper Canada (today's Ontario) and Lower Canada (today's Quebec) | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Scottish poet Robert Burns publishes Tam o' Shanter, in which a drunken farmer has an alarming encounter with witches | |
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| 1791 |
| | | French inventor Claude Chappe develops a hilltop signalling system, for which he coins the words telegraph and semaphore | |
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| 1791 |
| | | A stranger arrives in Vienna with a mysterious commission for Mozart to write a requiem mass, just months before the composer's death | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Louis XVI and his family attempt to flee from Paris to the border but are captured at Varennes | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Stationed at Valence, Napoleon becomes president of the local Jacobin club and makes radical speeches against the nobility and clergy | |
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| 1791 |
| | | An Indian raid on an American military camp beside the Maumee river leaves more than 600 US soldiers dead | |
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| 1791 |
| | | The Ordnance Survey is founded in Britain, to make detailed maps of the country for military purposes | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Naval officer George Vancouver sails from Britain on the voyage which will bring him to the northwest coast of America | |
|  | Whalebone club brought back by Vancouver
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
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| 1791 |
| | | Mozart's opera The Magic Flute has its premiere in Vienna in a popular theatre run by the librettist, Emanuel Shikaneder | |
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| 1791 |
| | | Wolfe Tone is one of the founders in Belfast of the Society of United Irishmen | |
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