1784 The great seal stolen. Mail coaches first established, by Mr. Raikes, of Gloucester. Slave trade abolished in Pennsylvania, and in New England.
1785 Blanchard and Dr. Jefferies cross the English Channel, in a balloon, from Dover, and land near Calais. M. Pilatre de Rosiere, and M. Romain, ascend in a balloon, which takes fire and they are dashed to pieces.
1786 Margaret Nicholson attempts to assassinate the King. Frederick the Great, King of Prussia, died. Convicts first sent to Botany Bay, and Sierra Leone. The young Lord Gormadston clandestinely carried abroad, in order to force him to embrace the Romish persuasion.
1787 Three American priests ordained bishops by the Archbishop of Canterbury, The house of Peers commenced the trial of Warren Hastings, Esq., on a charge of high crimes, &c., committed by him in the East Indies, of which he was impeached.
1789 The abolition of the Slave trade proposed in Parliament. Beginning of the French Revolution.
1790 War commenced in India with Tippoo Sultan.
1791 Riots at Birmingham.
1793 The Alien-bill passed in the British House of Commons. The English evacuate Toulon.
1794 The Habeas Corpus Act suspended. Lord Howe defeats the French fleet off Ushant.