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1794
 
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The treaty agreed by US envoy John Jay restores some degree of friendship between the USA and Britain      
1794
 
     
William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright'        
William Blake, by Thomas Phillips, 1807
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1795
 
    
Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity       
1796
 
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In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination       
1797
 
    
Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock'       
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, by Peter Vandyke, 1795
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1798
 
     
English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement        
1798
 
     
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads        
1799
 
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English surveyor William Smith compiles a manuscript, Order of the Strata, revealing chronology through fossils in rocks       
1799
 
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British prime minister William Pitt introduces income tax at 10% to pay for the war against France      
1799
 
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The British parliament passes a Combination Act, classing any association of labourers as a criminal conspiracy