Pitt as Prime Minister 1783-1801

Fox's India Bill, a serious attempt to solve the problem of British rule in India

Fox-North coalition is defeated

Pitt the Younger is appointed Prime Minister

Pitt asks King George III to call an election. King George III helps Pitt win this election, providing him with an election fund and influence in government-controlled boroughs

David Dale starts the New Lanark mills

Pitt's proposed political reform bill is defeated, causing him to abandon any ideas of reform due to the King's disapproval

Edward Cartwright patents the Power Loom

Influenced by the ideas of Adam Smith, Pitt signs a Free Trade Treaty with France

Storming of Bastille; the French Revolution begins

Edmund Burke publishes 'Reflections on the French Revolution', warning that bloodshed would follow

The Methodist movement experiences a surge in members

Thomas Paine publishes 'The Rights of Man', selling over 200,000 copies across the colonies

The Friend of France are attacked in Birmingham, possible due to government agent provocateurs stirring up a mob

The Society of United Irishmen is formed in Belfast

The Society of the Friends of the People is founded by a group of reformists

Thomas Hardy forms the London Corresponding Society

Pitt issues an order against 'seditious writings', his first repressive policy

The Massacre of thousands of prisoners in Paris suspected of being counter-revolutionaries

France is declared a Republic

France invades the Austrian Netherlands

Thomas Muir and the Scottish Martyrs are sentenced to transportation to Australia, after campaigning for political reform

The Catholic Relief Act, which allows Catholics the vote, but not to take up seats

The Friendly Societies Act, which gives members legal rights to hold meeting and have funds protected

Grey proposes a Parliamentary Reform bill, ultimately defeated 282:41

The execution of King Louis XVI

The execution of Marie Antoinette

The French Wars

Pitt the Younger suspends Habeas Corpus, justified on the grounds of guaranteeing the safety of the King

The Treasonable Practises Act and Seditious Meetings Act are introduced

Pitt tries to implement Catholic Emancipation, only to drop it due to fierce opposition from the King

The Speenhamland System of poor relief is introduced

The Orange Society is formed

London Corresponding Society holds a demonstration, with 10,000 people in attendance

Edward Jenner creates the smallpox vaccination

Paper currency is introduced to Britain to avert serious financial crisis

Pitt responds to the 1797 naval mutinies in Spithead and Nore by hanging the ringleaders

Wolfe Tone is involved in plans for the unsuccessful French landing in Ireland to overthrow the government

Thomas Malthus predicts that the growth in British population would outstrip food production and cause massive social problems

Pitt introduces the income tax to help offset some of the high costs of war

Wolfe Tone leads the Irish Rebellion

The government introduce the Combination Acts, prohibiting trade unions and collective bargaining by British workers

Corresponding Societies and the Society of United Irishmen are banned

Four bad harvests occur during this decade

Pitt resigns after King George III refuses to accept Catholic Emancipation

Henry Addington replaces Pitt as Prime Minister