Poltics and Poets of the Romantic Period

By michalamski

  • Johann Goethe is born

  • Period: to

    Romantic Period

  • Black Hole of Calcutta

  • William Blake is born

  • Mary Wollstonecraft is born

  • The Triangle Trade ships millions of African people across the Atlantic as slaves

  • William Wordsworth is born

  • Taylor Coleridge is born

  • Boston Tea Party

  • American Revolutionary War begins

  • Declaration of Independence

  • American Revolutionary War ends

  • The American Constitution is signed

  • Lord Byron is born

  • William Blake's Songs of Innocence

  • Storming of the Bastille

  • Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women

  • P.B. Shelley is born

  • Massacres of Royalists and other prisoners in Paris

  • Louis XVI is executed

  • Marie Antoinette is executed

  • John Keats is born

  • Treaty of Leoben

  • Mary Wollstonecraft dies

  • William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads

  • Louisiana Purchase

  • Battle of Austerlitz

  • Napoleon and Russian tsar Alexander I meet at Tilsit and set about carving up Europe

  • Johann Goethe's Faust

  • Jose Espronceda is born

  • Edgar Allan Poe is born

  • Lord Byron's Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage

  • Napoleon launches an attack on his ally, Alexander I

  • P.B. Shelley's Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem

  • Napolean is defeated at Waterloo

  • Holy Alliance to save Christian Europe formed between Prussia, Austria, and Russia

  • Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan

  • John Keat's Six Odes

  • The Sikh maharajah of the Punjab, Ranjit Singh, conquers Kashmir, beginning a century and a half of Sikh dominance

  • The Eastern Question becomes a common theme

  • Mainland Antarctica is discovered

  • John Keats dies

  • P.B. Shelley dies

  • Lord Byron dies

  • William Blake dies

  • Johann Goethe dies

  • Slavery Abolution Act

  • Taylor Coleridge dies

  • Siege of the Alamo

  • Jose Espronceda's El Estudiante de Salamanca

  • First Opium War begins in China

  • First Opium War Ends

  • Jose Espronceda dies

  • Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven

  • Liberia gains independence as a republic

  • Gold Rush begins in Calfornia

  • Napolean Bonaparte is elected president of France

  • Edgar Allan Poe dies

  • Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty breaks out in southern China (Taiping Rebellion)

  • William Wordsworth dies

  • Crimean War begins

  • Arthur Rimbaud is born

  • Crimean War ends

  • First transcontiental telegraph line

  • American Civil War begins

  • Taiping Rebellion ends with 20 mil. Chinese lives lost

  • Leo Tolstoy's first volume of War and Peace

  • American Civil War Ends

  • Russian scientist Mendeleev publishes periodic table

  • The first US transcontinental railroad is completed

  • Suez Canal is opened

  • Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell

  • Arthur Rimbaud dies