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Great Britain-related events during the year of 1789
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.
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- 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, at
Newgate Prison in London (although she is in practice strangled before being burnt).
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- 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 3,817 yards (3,490 m) it is the longest tunnel of any kind in England at this date.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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Undated
Publications
Births
Deaths
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References