April 13  Reform in the British Isles


key terms: extraparliamentary action, rotten borough, William Pitt the Younger, Gordon riots, Charles James Fox, Somerset decision, Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, Edmund Burke
1772
 Somerset decision
1778
 Catholic relief act
1780
 Gordon riots
1782
 Marquess of Rockingham (Whig)

Earl of Shelburne (Whig)
1783
 Duke of Portland (coalition of Lord North and Chas James Fox)
1783
 William Pitt (Tory)
1784
 East India Company Act
1788
 Dolben's Act
1793 the British enter the war of the First Coaltion
1794
 suspension of Habeas Corpus
1795
 Treasonable and Seditious Practices Act
Seditious Assemblies Act
1804
 Napoleon defeated at Trafalgar
1807
 abolition of the slave trade


Reform
Parliament
rotten boroughs (Old Sarum) and pocket burroughs
Catholics
Catholic Relief Act
Lord George Gordon and the Protestant Association
imperial policy
East India Company Act
impeachment trial of Warren Hastings
the slave trade
James Somerset and Lord Chief Justice Mansfield
Quakers and evangelical Anglicans
Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson
Society for Effecting the Abolition of Slavery (Abolition Society)
A Summary View of the Slave Trade and of the Probable Consequences of its Abolition (1787)
The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano (1789)
William Wilberforce
Dolben's Act
Sierra Leone (1787)
abolition (1807)



Thomas Clarkson

Granville Sharp

William Wilberforce