Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1797

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Literature

Coleridge writes Kubla Khan and the first version of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, published 1798
Hölderlin, Hyperion I
Ann Radcliffe, The Italian
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Ideas on the Philosophy of Nature
Friedrich Schlegel, Critical Fragments (in the journal Lyceum)
The third edition of The Encyclopædia Britannica appears in eighteen volumes
March: William Wordsworth visits Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Nether Stowey
March: William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft marry
July: William and Dorothy Wordsworth move to Alfoxden House near Coleridge at Nether Stowey
July-August: The radical John Thelwall visits Wordsworth and Coleridge at Nether Stowey, leading to their investigation by a Home Office informer
16 October: Coleridge, Osorio and Poems

William Blake provides engravings for an edition of Edward Young's Night Thoughts

Commons rejects abolition and renews the Dolben Act
February: Bank of England suspends cash payments
April-June: British naval mutinies at Spithead and Nore
26 May: Grey's motion for parliamentary reform is defeated
July: Fox's Whigs secede from Commons
31 July: London Corresponding Society meets illegally at St Pancras
4 September: France: Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V, against the royalists
17 October: France and Austria sign peace treaty
20 November: First issue of the ministerial journal the Anti-Jacobin, published until 9 July 1798

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