1794 - 1795 (1 year)
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| 1 | 1700 | - 1700—1799:
SA - VOC slave trading in Mozambique; Zanzibar and Madagascar
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| 2 | 1770 | - 1770—1799:
SA - Intensive Khoisan resistance to Trekboer occupation
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| 3 | 1790 | - 1790—1799:
SA - In documented raids on "Bosjesmen" 2000 - 3000 Khoisan are killed
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| 4 | 1794 | - 1794—1794:
Abolition of Parish Register duties
- 6 Oct 1794—6 Oct 1794:
The prosecutor for Britain, Lord Justice Eyre, charges reformers with High
Treason - he argued that, since reform of parliament would lead to revolution and revolution
to executing the King, the desire for reform endangered the King's life and was therefore
treasonous
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| 5 | 1795 | - 1795—1795:
The Famine Year
- 1795—1795:
Foundation of the Orange Order
- 1795—1795:
Speenhamland Act proclaims that the Parish is responsible for bringing up the labourer's
wage to subsistence level - towards the end of the eighteenth century, the number of poor and
unemployed increased dramatically - price increases during the Napoleonic Wars
(1793-1815) far outstripped wage rises - many small farmers were bankrupted by the move
towards enclosures and became landless labourers - their wages were often pitifully low
- 1795—1795:
Pitt and Grenville introduce The Gagging Acts' or 'Two Bills' (the Seditious Meetings and Treasonable Practices Bills) - outlawed the mass meeting and the political lecture.
- 1795—1795:
Consumption of lime juice made compulsory in Royal Navy
- 1795—1795:
SA - Xhosa at Prieska
- 1795—1802:
SA - British occupy Cape on behalf of William of Orange. Slaves outnumber European settlers at this time
- 1795—1795:
SA - Revolt in Swellendam and Graaff-Reinet.
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