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Steven Bacon

Male 1785 - Abt 1792  (6 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 1783 
  • 1783—1792:
    SA - Le Vaillant and Van Reenen travel in Namaqualand and north of Orange River
4 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)
5 1786 
  • 1786—1786:
    SA - Graaff-Reinet founded
6 1787 
  • 1787—1787:
    MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) established at Thomas Lord's ground in London
7 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
8 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
9 1790 
  • 1790—1790:
    Forth and Clyde Canal opened in Scotland
  • 1790—1799:
    SA - In documented raids on "Bosjesmen" 2000 - 3000 Khoisan are killed
10 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
11 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

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