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1781 - 17901782 Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief – the way of life of the
poor beginning to alter due to industrialisation – New factories in rapidly
expanding towns required a workforce that would adjust to new work patterns James Watt patents his steam engine 1783 Duty on Parish Register entries (3d per entry – repealed 1794) Montgolfier brothers launch first hot-air balloon July: Climate: hottest month on record until 1983 September 3: Treaty of Versailles (England/U.S.) 1784 Pitt's India Act – the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India
Company) has power to guide Indian politics Wesley breaks with the Church of England First edition of The Times (called The Daily Universal Register for 3
years) Aug 2: First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol/8am London) First golf club founded at St Andrews Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle 1785 Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols
more than 2 million) 1787 Earliest known Swedenborgian (Church of the New Jerusalem or
Jerusalemite) registers 1788 January 26: First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales First steamboat demonstrated in Scotland Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old
(not enforced) First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave
trade – stipulates more humane conditions on slave ships King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis – Edmund
Burke and Charles James Fox attack ministry of William Pitt – trying to obtain
full regal powers for the Prince of Wales 1789 July 14: The French Revolution begins – storming of the Bastille 1790 Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland |
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