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