A Regency Timeline 1788

My last post I explained that I was working on the Regency timeline. Here are 108 entries, a few duplicates I think, and my sources which include the Internet and The Timetables of History as well as the Chronology of Culture should cover a lot of events. There are now over 5000 listed for the period between 1788 and 1837 when Victoria comes to the Throne.

I may post a year at time every so often in between scanning through all these to find something that will be a good article for this blog and the blog at English Historical Fiction Authors. I will also have the full listing up shortly at Regency Assembly Press.

Those who have feedback, it is appreciated or if someone would like a specific year.

1783

19-Dec

Prime Minister of Great Britain: William Pitt “TheYounger”



1788

Jan 1

London’s Daily Universal Register began publishing as The Times.



1788

Jan 1

Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipated their slaves.



1788

Jan 2

Georgia became the fourth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.



1788

Jan 9

Connecticut became the fifth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.



1788

Jan 18

The first English settlers arrived in Australia’s Botany Bay to establish a penal colony. They found the location unsuitable and Capt. Arthur Philip moved on to Sydney Cove. England sent the first sheep along with convicts to Australia.



1788

Jan 20

The pioneer African Baptist church was organized in Savannah, Ga.



1788

Jan 22

George Gordon (d.1824), (6th Baron Byron) aka Lord Byron, English poet, was born with a deformed foot. His work included “Lara,” “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage” and “Don Juan.” He died in Greece at Missolonghi on the gulf of Patras preparing to fight for Greek independence. In 1997 the biography: “Byron: The flawed Angel” by Phyllis Grosskurth was published.



1788

Jan 26

The 1st fleet of ships carrying 736 convicts from England landed at Sydney Cove, New South Wales, Australia. The first European settlers in Australia, led by Capt. Arthur Phillip, landed in present-day Sydney. The day is since known as Australia’s national day. In 2006 Thomas Keneally authored “The Commonwealth of Thieves: The Story of the Founding of Australia.”



1788

Jan 31

Charles Edward Stuart (67), The Young Pretender, “Bonnie Prince Charlie” Stuart dies in Rome Born in 1720



1788

January

January: The first edition of The Times of London is published.



1788

Feb 1

Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat on this day.



1788

Feb 5

Sir Robert Peel (d.1850), British prime minister through the early 1800s, was born. He founded the Conservative Party and the London Police Force whose officers were called “bobbies.”



1788

Feb 6

Massachusetts became the sixth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.



1788

Feb 22

Arthur Schopenhauer (d.1860), German philosopher (Great Pessimist), was born: “Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.”



1788

Mar 7

Alexander Hamilton published his Federalist Paper 65 in the New York Packet. It discussed the subject of impeachment.



1788

Mar 21

Almost the entire city of New Orleans, Louisiana, was destroyed by fire. 856 buildings were burned.



1788

Mar 29

Charles Wesley, hymn writer and brother of John Wesley, died.



1788

Apr 4

Last of the Federalist essays was published. The series of 85 letters were written by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay urging ratification of the US Constitution. Defects in the Articles of Confederation became apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce and the inability of Congress to levy taxes, leading Congress to endorse a plan to draft a new constitution.



1788

Apr 5

Franz Pforr, German painter, cartoonist (Lukasbund), was born.



1788

Apr 12

Carlo Antonio Campioni (67), composer, died.



1788

Apr 15

Mary Delany (b.1700), English artist and writer, died. She became known for her “Flora Delanica,” a collection of 985 botanically accurate portraits of flowers in bloom. In 2011 Molly Peacock authored “”The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s work at 72.”



1788

Apr 28

Maryland became the seventh state to ratify the US constitution, but on condition that a Bill of Rights be added.



1788

May 10

Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer, physicist, was born.



1788

May 18

Hugh Clapperton, African explorer, was born in Annan, Scotland.



1788

May 23

South Carolina became the eighth state to ratify the U. S. Constitution.



1788

May 29

Jacques Aliamet (61), French etcher, engraver, died.



1788

May

May: The last volumes of Edward Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire are published.



1788

Jun 11

The 1st British ship to be built on Pacific coast was begun at Nootka Sound, BC.



1788

Jun 21

The U.S. Constitution went into effect as New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify it.



1788

Jun 25

Virginia ratified the U.S. Constitution.



1788

Jul 6

Ten thousand troops were called out in Paris as unrest mounted in the poorer districts over poverty and lack of food.



1788

Jul 15

Louis XVI jailed 12 deputies who protest new judicial reforms.



1788

Jul 19

Prices plunged on the Paris stock market.



1788

Jul 20

The governor of the French colony of Pondicherry, Vietnam, abandoned plans to place King Nhuyen Anh back on the throne.



1788

Jul 26

New York became the 11th state to ratify the Constitution.



1788

Aug 2

Thomas Gainsborough (61), English painter, died. His work included the 1771 portraits of the Viscount and Viscountess Ligonier and “Blue Boy.”



1788

Aug 8

King Louis XVI called the French States and Generals together.



1788

Aug 8

Louis FAD Duke de Richelieu (92), French marshal, died.



1788

Aug 27

Jacques Neeker was named French minister of Finance.



1788

August

August: Louis XVI of France agrees to convene the Estates-General for the first time since 1614.



1788

August

August: Mozart composes the “Jupiter Symphony” (Symphony No. 41).



1788

Sep 13

The Congress of the Confederation authorized the first national election, and declared New York City the temporary national capital. The Constitutional Convention authorized the first federal election resolving that electors (electoral college) in all the states will be appointed on January 7, 1789. The Convention decreed that the first federal election would be held on the first Wednesday in February of the following year.



1788

Sep 15

An alliance between Britain, Prussia and the Netherlands was ratified at the Hague.



1788

Sep 19

Charles de Barentin became lord chancellor of France.



1788

Sep 22

Theodore Hook, English novelist best known for “Impromptu at Fulham,” was born.



1788

Sep 23

Louis XVI of France declared the Parliament restored.



1788

Sep 24

After having been dissolved, the French Parliament of Paris reassembled in triumph.



1788

Oct 6

The Polish Diet decided to hold a four year session.



1788

Oct 24

Sarah Josepha Hale, magazine editor and poet whose book Poems for Our Children included “Mary Had a Little Lamb” (the first words to be recorded in sound), was born.



1788

November

November: The first Regency Crisis is brought about by George’s III’s first bout of madness.



1788

Dec 18

Camille Pleyel, Austrian piano builder and composer, was born.



1788

Dec 23

Maryland voted to cede a 100-square-mile area for the seat of the national government; about two-thirds of the area became the District of Columbia.



1788

Dec 30

Francesco Zuccarelli (86), Italian rococo painter and etcher, died.



1788

December

December: King Charles III of Spain dies and is succeeded by his son Charles IV of Spain.



1788



Actor John Philip Kemble becomes manager of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.



1788



Botany Bay Colonet established



1788



Sir John Soane begins his re-design of the Bank of England building, the first Greek revival building in England.



1788



The Marylebone Cricket Club codifies the rules of cricket in its Code of Laws, which are universally adopted by the game. (MCC remains the custodian and arbiter of Laws relating to cricket around the world.)



1788



William Playfair, Scottish draughtsman for James Watt, produced an “atlas” of Britain using 44 charts and no maps.



1788



The Marquis de Lafayette wrote the original version of the Declaration of the Rights of Man. He was appalled by the excesses of the revolution and fled to Austria where he was imprisoned for 5 years.



1788



Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823), French artist, painted “Love Seduces Innocence, Pleasure Entraps, and Remorse Follows.”



1788



John Adams published “A Defense of the Constitutions.”



1788



“The Narrative of John Blanchford” was published. Blanchford (15), a Massachusetts cabin-boy, had been captured by the British and sent to prison in Halifax and later to Sumatra from where he escaped after a 6 year ordeal.



1788



“The Art of Cookery, Made Plain and Easy” by Hannah Glasse was published in London.



1788



Mozart’s Don Giovanni was performed in conservative Vienna but was not a success.



1788



Mozart composed his 41st symphony titled by his publisher as the Jupiter.



1788



Rules were set for the game of cricket.



1788



“Buffalo clover… nearly knee-high… afforded a rich pasture.” An image of the fertile frontier penned by historian S.P. Hildreth. After 1907 the clover was unseen until 1989 when it emerged in some topsoil delivered to a botanist’s backyard.



1788



As British settlers arrived in Australia the native Aborigines are believed to have numbered about 750,000, and to have inhabited Australia for up to 70,000 years.



1788



A botanical garden opened in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife Island (Canary Islands).



1788



A great fire destroyed much of the wooden city of Kyoto, Japan.



1788



A salon from Paris of this time was later transferred [c1993] to the Legion of Honor Museum in San Francisco, Ca.



1788



Louis XVI creates more dissatisfaction by abolishing the power of parliament to review royal edicts. There has been insufficient government planning and storage of grain for emergency shortages. A hailstorm destroys crops. France has its worst harvests in forty years. Winter food riots occur.



1788



Britain’s prisons have been overcrowded, and having lost its thirteen colonies in the Americas it can no longer send convicts there. Instead it sends eleven ships with 1,372 people, including 732 of its more unruly convicts, to a place in Australia named after Lord Sydney, secretary of state for Britain’s colonies.



1788



Parlement of Paris presents list of grievances; Louis XVI decides to call States-General for May 1789 and recalls Jacques Necker as Minister of Finance



1788



Austria declares war on Turkey



1788



British parliamentary motion for abolition of slave trade



1788



Trial of Warren Hastings for maladministration of India



1788



Goethe: “Egmont,” Tragedy



1788



Friendship between Goethe and Schiller



1788



Friedrich Ruckert, german author born



1788



Jospeh von Eichendorff, german romantic poet born



1788



John C Spencer, US Lawyer born



1788



Hannah More: “Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society”



1788



John Lempriere:”Classical Dictionary”



1788



Kant: “Critque of Practical Reason,” the “Categorical Imperative



1788



Georg Johann Hamann, German religious philosopher died. (born 1730)



1788



Mozart wrote his las three symphonies in 6 weeks, in E Flat, G Minor and C (Jupiter)



1788



Etelka by Andras Dugonics (1740-1818), playwright, novelist and mathematician. He deplored foreign influences and tried to preserve the native traditions, especially dialects. This was the first popular novel in Hungarian.



1788



First volume of The Scots Musical Museum published by James Johnson (1750-1811) Scottish music engraver who for nearly 40 years had a monopoly of music engraving in Scotland



1788



The Botanicum Uppsala by Jean Louis Desprez (1743-1804) is neo-classicism by a French trained architect



1788



William Savery died (born 1721) Cabinet-maker and carver of the Philadelphia school noted for his elaborate ornament



1788



Humphrey Repton (1752-1818) began to practice as a landscape gardener. His work was on lines developed by Lancelot Brown but on a smaller scale with more details added to Brown’s broad sweeps. In later life he returned to the formal terraces and beds of the French style for the area immediately surrounding the house. Repton is the designer of the grounds of Aspley House.



1788



Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806) made a new departure in Ukiyo-E colour prints with his insects, which exploited the accurate observation of Japanese naturalistic painting; he anticipated the work of Hokusai and Kiroshige in this respect, but was chiefly famous for depicting the world of women.



1788



Bread riots in France



1788



First hortensia and fuchsia imported to Europe from Peru



1788



First German Cigar factory opened in Hamburg



1788



James Hutton: “New Theory of the Earth”



1788



Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace: “Laws of the Planetary System”



1788



KPE Bach died (b 1714)



1788



Brandenburger Tor, Berlin built by CG Langhaus



1788



David: “Love of Paris and Helena”



1788



Maurice Quentin de Latour, French painter died (b 1704)



1788-1789



King George III suffered a mental breakdown.



1788-1792



Koray’s Letters Written from Paris by Adamantios Loraes (1748-1833) man of letters. Greek Scholars and writers were at this time trying to find a language that could be used by all Greeks for all purposes. The choice was between classical (Church) and spoken (demotic) Greek. Koraes attempted a compromise between Church language and spoken Greek, but the result was too artificial.



1788-1800



In 2007 Jay Winik authored “The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800.”



1788-1865



C.J. Thomson, Danish museum curator, contributed to the Three Age System classification of early man from stone to bronze to iron.