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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:EngvarB Шаблон:Year in Great Britain Events from the year 1789 in Great Britain.
Incumbents
Events
- 3 February – Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces a Regency Bill to Parliament so that the Prince of Wales may act as regent for his father George III during a period of mental illness, but the King recovers before the Bill becomes law.[2]
- March – first version of a graphic description of a slave ship (the Brookes) issued on behalf of the English Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade.[3][4]
- 18 March – Catherine Murphy, a counterfeiter, becomes the last woman in Britain to suffer a sentence of death by burning (although she is in practice strangled before being burnt).[5]
- April – Privy Council report on the slave trade published.
- 20 April – first boat passes through the Thames and Severn Canal's Sapperton Tunnel near Cirencester in Gloucestershire. At Шаблон:Convert it is the longest tunnel of any kind in England at this date.[6]
- 28 April – Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny on HMS Bounty against Captain William Bligh in Polynesia.[7]
- 12 May – William Wilberforce makes his first major speech in the House of Commons on the abolition of the slave trade.[8]
- 14 June – Mutiny on the Bounty survivors including Captain William Bligh and 18 others reach Timor after a nearly 4,000-mile journey in an open boat.[7]
- 28 August – William Herschel discovers Enceladus, one of Saturn's moons.[9]
- 17 September – William Herschel discovers Mimas, another of Saturn's moons.[9]
- 4 November – Richard Price preaches a sermon in London, A Discourse on the Love of Our Country, igniting the Revolution Controversy.
- 19 November – Thames and Severn Canal opened throughout, giving through navigation between the Thames and Severn.[10]
Undated
- Charles Dibdin introduces the nautical song Tom Bowling in his London entertainment The Oddities.
- The song The Lass of Richmond Hill, with music by James Hook to words by Leonard McNally, is first performed publicly by Charles Incledon at Vauxhall Gardens in London.
- Rev. Dr. Edmund Cartwright patents his first practical power loom and designs a wool combing machine.
- Andrew Pears introduces Pears soap in London.[2]
Publications
- William Blake's book of poetry Songs of Innocence and of Experience[2] and his first published prophetic book The Book of Thel.
- Erasmus Darwin's poem The Loves of the Plants, a popular rendering of Linnaeus' works.
- Former slave Olaudah Equiano's autobiography The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, one of the earliest published works by a black writer.[11]
Births
- 5 January – Thomas Pringle, poet (died 1834)
- 14 July – Timothy Yeats Brown, consul to Genoa (died 1858)
- 19 July – John Martin, painter (died 1854)
Deaths
- 1 January – Fletcher Norton, 1st Baron Grantley, politician (born 1716)
- 8 January – Jack Broughton, English boxer (born 1703)
- 23 January – Frances Brooke, writer (born 1724)
- 23 January – John Cleland, novelist (born 1709)
- 26 February – Eclipse, racehorse (born 1764)
- 20 July – David Nelson, botanist on Шаблон:HMS (birth date unknown)
- 26 November – John Elwes, miser and politician (born 1714)
See also
References
Шаблон:GB year nav Шаблон:Year in Europe
