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Events relating to england
Naval officer George Vancouver sails from Britain on the voyage which will bring him to the northwest coast of America
Thomas Paine publishes the first part of The Rights of Man, his reply to Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France
English author Mary Wollstonecraft publishes a passionately feminist work, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
Thomas Paine moves hurriedly to France, to escape a charge of treason in England for opinions expressed in his Rights of Man
George III sends Lord Macartney on an embassy to the Chinese emperor Qianlong
Britain joins other European nations in war against France, mainly in naval engagements in the West Indies and Atlantic
The treaty agreed by US envoy John Jay restores some degree of friendship between the USA and Britain
William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright'
Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity
In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination
Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock'
English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads
English surveyor William Smith compiles a manuscript, Order of the Strata, revealing chronology through fossils in rocks
British prime minister William Pitt introduces income tax at 10% to pay for the war against France
The British parliament passes a Combination Act, classing any association of labourers as a criminal conspiracy
British prime minister William Pitt resigns when George III vetoes Catholic emancipation, but is recalled three years later
The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million
The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours
English journalist William Cobbett launches a weekly newspaper, The Political Register, that he continues till his death in 1835
Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back
English chemist John Dalton reads a paper describing his Law of Partial Pressure in gases (discovered in 1801)
At the end of his Partial Pressure paper, John Dalton makes brief mention of his radical theory of differing atomic weights
William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton
The first barge is pulled by a horse along Thomas Telford's cast-iron canal aqueduct, high in the air at Pont Cysyllte
