Scandal & Sobriety

By florence432

  • English Civil War 1642-1648

  • Glorious Revolution

    End of feudalism
  • Period: to

    Neoclassicism

  • Period: to

    Enlightenment

  • Seven Years War between Britain and France

  • The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

    First Wave Gothic

  • First cotton mill opens

  • Slavery effectively illegal in England

  • Boston Tea Party

  • American War of Independence begins

  • American Declaration of Independence

  • First edition of The Times of London published

  • French Revolution

  • Britain at war with France 1793-1815

    Ended with Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Waterloo

  • The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe

    First Wave Gothic

  • The Italian by Ann Radcliffe

  • United Kingdom formed

    From Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales) and Ireland

  • Haiti becomes first Black Republic

    Independence from France

  • Luddite Protests 1811-1812

    Textile workers destroy machinery to protest high unemployment

  • Poor harvest causes widespread famine

  • Frankenstein by Mary Shelley published

  • Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen published posthumously

  • Peterloo Massacre in Manchester

    Massacre of people who had gone to hear radical speakers, anxieties surrounding French Revolution

  • Factory Act

    Restricts working hours for women and children
    Children must be given schooling

  • Abolition of slavery in the British Empire

  • Start of Victorian Era

  • Charles Dickens publishes Oliver Twist

  • Start of Railway Boom

    Opening of London-Birmingham line

  • Vaccination for poor introduced

  • Start of Irish Potato Famine

  • Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskell published

  • Great Exhibition in London

    Presented industrialisation as a sign of national progress (Victorian Literature handbook)

  • Crimean War 1854-1856

  • Charles Darwin publishes 'On the Origin of Species'

  • Second Reform Act

    Gives all male householders the vote

  • Married Women's Property Act

    Women able to retain some property following marriage

  • Education Act

    Compulsory education introduced for children under the age of 10.

  • The Berlin Conference 1884-1885

    Part of colonial 'Scramble for Africa'

  • Coining of the term 'Feminism'

  • The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar WIlde first performed