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Beginning of the Romantic period
Romanticism is a cultural movement that originated in Germany and the United Kingdom as a revolutionary reaction against the Enlightenment and Neoclassicism, giving priority to feelings. It is considered the first cultural movement that covered the entire map of Europe. -
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Romantic opera
Opera tended to mix between the forms established in baroque or classicism. This process reached its apogee with Wagner's operas, in which the music is organized in a continuous musical flow, without the clear division of arias, choruses, recitatives, etc., characteristic of earlier operas. -
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John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais, was an English painter and illustrator, prominent in Romantic art, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. -
Reign of isabel II begins
Isabella II of Spain was queen of Spain between 1833 and 1868, thanks to the repeal of the 1713 succession regulations (known as the "Salic Law") by means of the Pragmatic Sanction of 1830. This provoked the insurrection of the infante Carlos María Isidro, who was the brother of Ferdinand VII and uncle of Isabella II, and who had already attempted to proclaim himself king with the support of the so-called "Carlist" groups during Ferdinand's death agony. -
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The First Carlist War
The First Carlist War was a civil war that developed in Spain between the Carlists, supporters of Prince Carlos María Isidro de Borbón and an absolutist regime, and the Isabelinos or Cristinos, defenders of Isabel II and the regent María Cristina de Borbón, whose government was originally moderate absolutist and ended up becoming liberal in order to obtain popular support. -
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was born
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer was a Spanish Post-Romanticism poet and storyteller. Although he achieved certain fame during his lifetime, it was only after his death and after the publication of all his writings that he gained the prestige he enjoys today. -
Wilhelm Richard Wagner death
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, poet, essayist, playwright and musical theorist of Romanticism. His operas stand out mainly in which, unlike other composers, he also assumed the libretto and scenography. -
End of the Romantic period
Romanticism was losing strength in the second half of the nineteenth century and gave way to what is known as Post-Romanticism. This is how aestheticism began to enter the artistic canons and their standards, passing to the background what was defended in Romanticism.