1791 to 1830

This page of the timeline covers -

• 1795
• 1805
• 1815
• 1825

     1791

establishment of the Observer

     1792

Chappe's mechanical semaphore in France

first US mint

New York Stock Exchange established

postal money orders in Britain

     1793

'Canal Bubble' in UK bursts

     1794

Metric system in France

William Paley's Evidences of Christianity

     1798

Malthus' first Essay on Population

Senefelder invents lithography

Neue Zürcher Zeitung founded by Salomon Gessner

Georges Cuvier's Histoire naturelle des animaux

     1799

paper-making machine invented in France by Robert

Pitt introduces income tax in UK

     1800

Banque de France founded

Tevithick introduces high-pressure double-acting steam engine

     1801

Jacquard invents punch-card control for looms

Jean Baptiste Lamarck's Animaux sans vertèbres

     1803

Sydney Gazette & NSW Advertiser - first newspaper in Australia

first import duties and charges levied in Australia

     1804

Trevithick railway locomotive at Penydarren

     1806

carbon paper

     1807

camera lucida

Humphrey Davy's Some chemical agencies of Electricity

     1808

The King v Dodd

     1811

Luddites have fun in Nottingham

Cobbett sells interest in UK Debates to Thomas Hansard

New York General Act of Incorporation

Frederick Koenig invents steam-powered printing press

Bank of Finland founded

     1813

can opener invented

Berzelius proposes system of chemical symbols

     1814

The Times printed by steam-powered rotary press

Orfila's Traité des Poisons

     1815

patent for lined notepaper

Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine

Smith's Geologic Map of England & Wales

     1816

Ronalds' prototype electric telegraph

Bank of Norway founded

Austrian National Bank founded

     1817

Bank of NSW (later Westpac) founded

Ricardo's On the Principles of Political Economy & Taxation

Say's Catechism of Political Economy

1818 Danish Nationalbank founded

     1819

'Six Acts' in England (inc Blasphemous & Seditious Libel Act)

     1820

first manufactured calculating machine, de Colmar's Arithometer

R v Burdett

     1822

Société Générale founded in Belgium

Fourier's Theorie analytique de la chaleur

     1823

Babbage builds section of calculating machine

New South Wales Act 1823 (Imp)

Auguste Comte's Systéme de politique positive

     1824

establishment of Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (later RSPCA)

     1825

repeal of Bubble Act in UK

Braille devises six dot system

'South American Mining Bubble' in UK bursts

Stockton-Darlington railway line in UK

     1827

Niépce makes first true photograph

first microphone constructed by Wheatstone

Gall's First Book for Teaching the Art of Reading to the Blind

John Fareys Treatise on the Steam Engine

     1828

Places of Public Entertainment Act 1828 (NSW)

Routledge v Grant

Catholic Emancipation Act restores civil liberties to UK Roman Catholics

Australian Courts Act 1828 (Imp)

     1829

first US patent for typewriter

Dickinson's 'thread' security paper in UK

Wheatstone uses punched paper tape to store data

Rheinreise is first Baedeker guide

     1830

number of ads in British newspapers rises to 877,972 pa

newspaper Stamp Tax abolished in Australia

Orfila's Traité des exhumations juridiques

Liverpool-Manchester railway line in UK





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