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Beginning of the American Revolution
The Colonies declared their independence from Great Britain with the Declaration of Independence, thus beginning the American Revolution. -
End of the American Revolution
The Treaty of Paris is signed and the British remove all troops out of the newly formed United States of America. -
william blake songs of innocence
Songs of Innocence was originally a complete work first printed in 1789. It is a conceptual collection of 19 poems, engraved with artwork. -
Mary Wollstonecraft
a declaration of the rights of women to equality of education and to civil opportunities. The book-length essay, written in simple and direct language, was the first great feminist treatise. In it Wollstonecraft argues that true freedom necessitates equality of the sexes; claims that intellect, or reason, is superior to emotion, or passion; seeks to persuade women to acquire strength of mind and body; and aims to convince women that what had traditionally been regarded as soft, “womanly” virtues -
charles and mary lamb tales from shakespeare
Brother-and-sister writing team Charles and Mary Lamb interweave the words of Shakespeare with their own (some 200 years later in 1807) to bring 20 of his best plays to the young reader. They are more fully enlivened with the early twentieth-century color illustrations of Gertrude Hammond. -
English Artisans called Luddites riot
In Nottinghamshire, where the Luddite attacks began in November 1811, the ‘framework-knitters’ or ‘stockingers’ who produced hosiery using stocking frames had a number of grievances, including wage-cutting, the use of unapprenticed youths for the same -
brother's grimm grimm's fairytales
The first volume of the first edition was published, containing 86 stories; the second volume of 70 stories followed in 1814. For the second edition, two volumes were issued in 1819 and a third in 1822, totalling 170 tales. The third edition appeared in 1837; fourth edition, 1840; fifth edition, 1843; sixth edition, 1850; seventh edition, 1857 -
United States declares war on Great Britian
On June 12, 1812, the United States declared war on Great as a result of numerous disputes between the two countries. The British continuously engaged in impressment and forced US citizens to serve in the Royal Navy. -
Mary Shelley, daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft publishes Frankenstein
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was published in 1818, when Mary was 21, and became a huge success. The first edition of the book had an unsigned preface by Percy Shelley. Many, disbelieving that a 19-year-old woman could have written such a horror story, thought that it was his novel. -
Slavery is abolished in the British Empire
The British Empire declared slavery illegal and unhumane, and created the Slavery Abolition Act, freeing all slaves in the Empire with a few exceptions (all exceptions were later removed in 1843).
