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Pitt as Prime Minister 1783-1801 - Statistics

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Storming of Bastille; the French Revolution begins 14 July 1789
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Pitt resigns after King George III refuses to accept Catholic Emancipation 16 February 1801
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Thomas Paine publishes 'The Rights of Man', selling over 200,000 copies across the colonies 16 March 1791
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The execution of Marie Antoinette 16 October 1793
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David Dale starts the New Lanark mills 1784
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Pitt's proposed political reform bill is defeated, causing him to abandon any ideas of reform due to the King's disapproval 1785
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Edward Cartwright patents the Power Loom 1785
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Influenced by the ideas of Adam Smith, Pitt signs a Free Trade Treaty with France 1786
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The Methodist movement experiences a surge in members 1791 onwards
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The Society of the Friends of the People is founded by a group of reformists 1792
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Thomas Muir and the Scottish Martyrs are sentenced to transportation to Australia, after campaigning for political reform 1793
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The Catholic Relief Act, which allows Catholics the vote, but not to take up seats 1793
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The Friendly Societies Act, which gives members legal rights to hold meeting and have funds protected 1793
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Grey proposes a Parliamentary Reform bill, ultimately defeated 282:41 1793
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The French Wars 1793-1815
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Pitt the Younger suspends Habeas Corpus, justified on the grounds of guaranteeing the safety of the King 1794
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The Treasonable Practises Act and Seditious Meetings Act are introduced 1795
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Pitt tries to implement Catholic Emancipation, only to drop it due to fierce opposition from the King 1795
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The Speenhamland System of poor relief is introduced 1795
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Four bad harvests occur during this decade 1795, 1796, 1799, 1800
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Edward Jenner creates the smallpox vaccination 1796
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Paper currency is introduced to Britain to avert serious financial crisis 1797
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Pitt responds to the 1797 naval mutinies in Spithead and Nore by hanging the ringleaders 1797
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Wolfe Tone is involved in plans for the unsuccessful French landing in Ireland to overthrow the government 1797-1798
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Thomas Malthus predicts that the growth in British population would outstrip food production and cause massive social problems 1798
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Pitt introduces the income tax to help offset some of the high costs of war 1798
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Wolfe Tone leads the Irish Rebellion 1798
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The government introduce the Combination Acts, prohibiting trade unions and collective bargaining by British workers 1799
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Corresponding Societies and the Society of United Irishmen are banned 1799
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Fox-North coalition is defeated 17 December 1783
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Henry Addington replaces Pitt as Prime Minister 1801
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Pitt the Younger is appointed Prime Minister 19 December 1783
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The execution of King Louis XVI 21 January 1793
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The Orange Society is formed 21 September 1795
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Thomas Hardy forms the London Corresponding Society 25 January 1792
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The Friend of France are attacked in Birmingham, possible due to government agent provocateurs stirring up a mob July 1791
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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 March 1784
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Pitt issues an order against 'seditious writings', his first repressive policy May 1792
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Fox's India Bill, a serious attempt to solve the problem of British rule in India November 1783
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Edmund Burke publishes 'Reflections on the French Revolution', warning that bloodshed would follow November 1790
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France invades the Austrian Netherlands November 1792
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The Society of United Irishmen is formed in Belfast October 1791
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London Corresponding Society holds a demonstration, with 10,000 people in attendance October 1795
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The Massacre of thousands of prisoners in Paris suspected of being counter-revolutionaries September 1792
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France is declared a Republic September 1792
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