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| 1795 |
| | | A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism | |
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| 1796 |
| | | In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone sails from France to invade Ireland with a force of 14,000 French soldiers | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock' | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone, convicted of treason for his failed invasion, cuts his throat to cheat the British gallows | |
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| 1798 |
| | | English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads | |
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| 1799 |
| | | English surveyor William Smith compiles a manuscript, Order of the Strata, revealing chronology through fossils in rocks | |
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| 1799 |
| | | British prime minister William Pitt introduces income tax at 10% to pay for the war against France | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The British parliament passes a Combination Act, classing any association of labourers as a criminal conspiracy | |
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