John Dalton

Year

World Events

Born at Eaglesfield

1766

Henry Cavendish discovers hydrogen

1773

The Boston Tea Party

1776

The American Declaration of Independence

Becomes tutor in the Quaker school in Kendal

1781

Herschel discovers Uranus

Begins keeping meterological journal

1787

1789

Beginning of French Revolution

Becomes tutor at Manchester New College. First published work: "Meterological Observations and Essays"

1793

Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette executed; Marat murdered
Gilbert White, the naturalist, dies

Joins the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and reads his first paper

1794

Paper on partial pressure of gas read to the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

1801

Act of Union between England and Ireland

Becomes freelance tutor
Paper on the atomic weight of particles

1803

Caledonian canal begun

1804

Napoleon crowned Emperor of the French

1805

Battle of Trafalgar

Publishes New System of Chemical Philosophy

1810

Chopin born
Elizabeth Gaskell born

1812

Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow

1815

Battle of Waterloo

Becomes President of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society

1817

Awarded the Royal Medal by the Royal Society

1826

Present at the first meeting of the British Association in York

1831

Honorary D.C.L. from Oxford

1832

Grey’s first Reform Bill

Honorary LL.D. from Edinburgh

1834

Slavery abolished in the British Empire
The Tolpuddle Martyrs

Vice-President of the British Association meeting in Manchester

1842

Dies in Manchester

1844

Rochdale Cooperative Society founded
First Morse Code message transmitted