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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Edmund Burke
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William Blake
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George III
George III comes to the throne -
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William Wordsworth
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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The Boston Tea Party
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American War of Independence
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Jane Austen
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Declaration of Independence
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Romanticism
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Peace Treaty in Paris
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Will Pitt
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Britain at war with revolutionary France
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George Gordon Byron
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George Washington
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The French Revolution breaks out
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Songs of Innocence
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Reign of Terror in France
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Songs of Experience
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John Keats
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Marry Shelley
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Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Act of Union with Ireland
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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France
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Battle of Trafalgar
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Daffodils
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Luddite riots (1811-1812)
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The future George IV is made Prince Regent because of George's III illness -
Pride and Prejudice
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Battle of Waterloo
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Europe after the Congress of Vienna
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Congress of Vienna
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Frankenstein
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Peterloo massacre
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George IV was crowned
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Trade unions are legalised
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First public railway
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Metropolitan Police force is established -
William IV comes to the throne
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The Great Reform Act
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Britain abolishes slavery
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Accession of Queen Victoria
