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Joseph Rawlins

Male 1782 - 1805  (22 years)

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   Date  Event(s)
1 1700 
  • 1700—1799:
    SA - VOC slave trading in Mozambique; Zanzibar and Madagascar
2 1770 
  • 1770—1799:
    SA - Intensive Khoisan resistance to Trekboer occupation
3 1782 
  • 1782—1782:
    Gilbert's Act establishes outdoor poor relief - the way of life of the poor beginning to alter due to industrialisation - New factories in rapidly expanding towns required a workforce that would adjust to new work patterns
  • 1782—1782:
    James Watt patents his steam engine
  • 1782—1782:
    SA - First issue of paper rix dollars.
4 1783 
  • 1783—1783:
    Duty payable on Parish Register entries (3d per entry - repealed 1794) - led to a fall in entries!
  • 1783—1792:
    SA - Le Vaillant and Van Reenen travel in Namaqualand and north of Orange River
  • 3 Sep 1783—3 Sep 1783:
    Treaty of Versailles (Britain/US)
  • 3 Nov 1783—3 Nov 1783:
    Last public execution at Tyburn in London (John Austin, a highwayman)
5 1784 
  • 1784—1784:
    Pitt's India Act - the Crown (as opposed to officers of the East India Company) has power to guide Indian politics
  • 1784—1784:
    Wesley breaks with the Church of England
  • 1784—1784:
    First golf club founded at St Andrews
  • 1784—1784:
    Invention of threshing machine by Andrew Meikle
  • 2 Aug 1784—2 Aug 1784:
    First mail coaches in England (4pm Bristol / 8am London)
6 1785 
  • 1785—1785:
    Sunday School Society founded to educate poor children (by 1851, enrols more than 2 million)
  • 1 Jan 1785—1 Jan 1785:
    John Walter publishes first edition of The Times (called The Daily Universal Register for 3 years)
7 1786 
  • 1786—1786:
    SA - Graaff-Reinet founded
8 1787 
  • 1787—1787:
    MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) established at Thomas Lord's ground in London
9 1788 
  • 1788—1788:
    First steamboat demonstrated in Scotland
  • 1788—1788:
    Law passed requiring that chimney sweepers be a minimum of 8 years old (not enforced)
  • 1788—1788:
    First slave carrying act, the Dolben Act of 1788, regulates the slave trade - stipulates more humane conditions on slave ships
  • 1788—1788:
    King George III's mental illness occasions the Regency Crisis - Edmund Burke and Charles James Fox attack ministry of William Pitt - trying to obtain full regal powers for the Prince of Wales
  • 1788—1788:
    Gibbon completes Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
  • 26 Jan 1788—26 Jan 1788:
    First convicts (and free settlers) arrive in New South Wales (left Portsmouth 13 May 1787) ? the 'First Fleet'; eleven ships commanded by Captain Arthur Phillip
10 1789 
  • 1789—1789:
    SA - Merino (wool-producing) sheep brought from Holland
  • 1789—1793:
    SA - Second Frontier War between Xhosa and whites.
  • 28 Apr 1789—28 Apr 1789:
    Mutiny on HMS Bounty - Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors are set adrift and the rebel crew ends up on Pitcairn Island
11 1790 
  • 1790—1790:
    Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
  • 1790—1799:
    SA - In documented raids on "Bosjesmen" 2000 - 3000 Khoisan are killed
12 1791 
  • 1791—1791:
    John Bell, printer, abandons the long s' (the 's' that looks like an 'f')
  • 1791—1791:
    Establishment of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain
  • 4 Dec 1791—4 Dec 1791:
    First publication of The Observer - world's oldest Sunday newspaper
13 1792 
  • 1792—1792:
    Repression in Britain (restrictions on freedom of the press) - Fox gets Libel Act through Parliament, requiring a jury and not a judge to determine libel
  • 1792—1792:
    Boyle's Street Directory published
  • 1792—1792:
    Coal-gas lighting invented by William Murdock, an Ayrshire Scot
  • 1792—1792:
    SA - Dutch Reformed Church congregation founded in Graaff-Reinet.
  • 1792—1792:
    SA - Morovian Mission founded at Genadendal.
  • 1 Oct 1792—1 Oct 1792:
    Introduction of Money Orders in Britain
  • 1 Dec 1792—1 Dec 1792:
    King's Proclamation drawing out the British militia
14 1793 
  • 11 Feb 1793—11 Feb 1793:
    Britain declares war on France (1793-1802)
  • 15 Apr 1793—15 Apr 1793:
    ?5 notes first issued by the Bank of England
15 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
16 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.
17 1796 
  • 1796—1796:
    Pitt's Reign of Terror': More treason trials - leading radicals emigrate
  • 1796—1796:
    Legacy Tax on sums over ?20 excluding those to wives, children, parents and grandparents
  • 1796—1796:
    SA - Pieter Pienaar murdered by Jager Afrikaner at Hantam. Afrikaner becomes frontier leader
  • 14 May 1796—14 May 1796:
    Dr Edward Jenner gave first vaccination for smallpox in England
18 1797 
  • 1797—1797:
    England in Crisis, Bank of England suspends cash payments
  • 1797—1797:
    Mutinies in the British Navy at Spithead and Nore
  • 1797—1797:
    Tax on newspapers (including cheap, topical journals) increased to repress radical publications
  • 1797—1797:
    The first copper pennies were produced ('cartwheels') by application of steam power to the coining press
  • 22 Feb 1797—22 Feb 1797:
    French invade Fishguard, Wales; last time UK invaded; all captured 2 days later
  • 26 Feb 1797—26 Feb 1797:
    First ?1 (and ?2) notes issued by Bank of England
19 1798 
  • 1798—1798:
    First planned human experiment with vaccination, to test theories of Edward Jenner
  • 1798—1798:
    SA - First Post Office. Liquidation of Dutch East India Company. First mosque in southern Africa established in Dorp Street by Tuan Guru. Dutch Reformed Church congregation founded at Swellendam.
  • Feb 1798—Feb 1798:
    The Irish Rebellion; 100,000 peasants revolt; approximately 25,000 die - Irish Parliament abolished (Feb-Oct)
  • 1 Aug 1798—1 Aug 1798:
    Battle of the Nile (won by Nelson)
20 1799 
  • 1799—1799:
    Foundation of Royal Military College Sandhurst by the Duke of York
  • 1799—1799:
    Foundation of the Royal Institution of Great Britain
  • 1799—1802:
    SA - Eastern Cape Khoekhoe revolt
  • 1799—1799:
    SA - First London Missionary Society (LMS) station - to |Xam - on Zak River.
  • 1799—1799:
    SA - Fort Frederick built in Algoa Bay by British soldiers. Third Frontier War between the Xhosa and whites. Beginning of London Missionary Society work in South Africa.
  • 9 Jan 1799—9 Jan 1799:
    Pitt brings in 10% income tax, as a wartime financial measure
  • 12 Jul 1799—12 Jul 1799:
    'Combination Laws' in Britain against political associations and combinations
  • 15 Jul 1799—15 Jul 1799:
    ?Rosetta Stone' discovered in Egypt made possible the deciphering (in 1822) of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics
21 1800 
  • 1800—1800:
    Electric light first produced by Sir Humphrey Davy
  • 1800—1800:
    Use of high pressure steam pioneered by Richard Trevithick (1771-1833)
  • 1800—1800:
    Royal College of Surgeons founded
  • 1800—1800:
    Herschel discovers infra-red light
  • 1800—1800:
    Volta makes first electrical battery
  • 1800—1800:
    SA - First printing press in Cape Town. Government Gazette started.
  • 2 Jul 1800—2 Jul 1800:
    Parliamentary union of Great Britain and Ireland
22 1801 
  • 1801—1801:
    Grand Union Canal opens in England
  • 1801—1801:
    Elgin Marbles brought from Athens to London
  • 1801—1801:
    SA - Official expedition of Truter; Somerville; Barrow and Daniell; with missionaries Jan Matthys Kok and William Edwards; reaches Dithakong
  • 1801—1801:
    SA - William Anderson established mission at Aakaap and then Klaarwater (later Griquatown). Khoisan spelling book printed by LMS
  • 1 Jan 1801—1 Jan 1801:
    Union Jack becomes the official British flag
  • 10 Mar 1801—10 Mar 1801:
    First census puts the population of England and Wales at 9,168,000. Population of Britain nearly 11 million (75% rural)
  • 24 Dec 1801—24 Dec 1801:
    Richard Trevithick built the first self-propelled passenger carrying road loco
23 1802 
  • Feb 1802—Jan 1806:
    SA - Batavian Republic rules the Cape.
  • 25 Mar 1802—25 Mar 1802:
    Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands ? the 'Peace of Amiens' as it was known brought a temporary peace of 14 months during the Napoleonic Wars ? one of its most important cultural effects was that travel and correspondence across the English Channel became possible again
24 1803 
  • 1803—1803:
    Poaching made a Capital offense in England if capture resisted
  • 1803—1803:
    Richard Trevithick built another steam carriage and ran it in London as the first self-propelled vehicle in the capital and the first London bus
  • 1803—1803:
    Semaphore signaling perfected by Admiral Popham
  • 30 Apr 1803—30 Apr 1803:
    Louisiana Purchase: Napoleon sells French possessions in America to United States
  • 12 May 1803—12 May 1803:
    Peace of Amiens ends ? resumption of war with France ? The Napoleonic Wars (1803-18l5)
  • 23 Jul 1803—23 Jul 1803:
    First public railway opens (Surrey Iron Railway, 9 miles from Wandsworth to Croydon, horse-drawn)
25 1804 
  • 1804—1804:
    Matthew Flinders recommends that the newly discovered country, New Holland, be renamed 'Australia'
  • 1804—1806:
    SA - Heinrich Lichtenstein travels to Dithakong
  • 1804—1804:
    SA - Uitenhage founded.
  • 21 Feb 1804—21 Feb 1804:
    Richard Trevithick runs his railway engine on the Penydarren Railway (9.5 miles from Pen-y-Darren to Abercynon in South Wales) this hauled a train with 10 tons of iron and 70 passengers. It was commemorated by the Royal Mint in 2004 in the form of A ?2 coin.
  • 3 Mar 1804—3 Mar 1804:
    John Wedgwood (eldest son of the potter Josiah Wedgwood) founds The Royal Horticultural Society
  • 2 Dec 1804—2 Dec 1804:
    Napoleon declares himself Emperor of the French
  • 12 Dec 1804—12 Dec 1804:
    Spain declares war on Britain
26 1805 
  • 1805—1805:
    London docks opened
  • 21 Oct 1805—21 Oct 1805:
    Admiral Nelson's victory at Trafalgar
  • 2 Dec 1805—2 Dec 1805:
    Battle of Austerlitz; Napoleon defeats Austrians and Russians

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