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The American Revolution
The American Revolution was a political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America. They first rejected the authority of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them from overseas without representation, and then expelled all royal officials. By 1774 each colony had established a Provincial Congress or an equivalent governmental institution to go -
William Blake publishes Songs of Innocence
It is a conceptual collection of 19 poems, engraved with artwork.It appeared in two phases. A few first copies were printed and illuminated by William Blake himself in 1789; five years later he bound these poems with a set of new poems in a volume titled Songs of Innocence and of Experience Showing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul."Innocence" and "Experience" are definitions of consciousness that rethink Milton's existential-mythic states of "Paradise" and the "Fall." Blake's categories -
The French Revoltion
a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a lasting impact on French history and more broadly throughout the world. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed within three years. French society underwent an epic transformation, as feudal, aristocratic and religious privileges evaporated under a sustained assault from radical left-wing political groups, masses on the streets, and peasants in the countryside. -
Mary Wollstonecraft critiques restrictions in A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Wollstonecraft preached that intellect will always govern and sought “to persuade women to endeavour to acquire strength, both of mind and body, and to convince them that the soft phrases, susceptibility of heart, delicacy of sentiment, and refinement of taste, are almost synonimous [sic] with epithets of weakness.” -
Charles and Mary Lamb publish Tales from Shakespeare
An English children's book written by Charles Lamb with his sister Mary Lamb. The book reduced the archaic English and complicated storyline of Shakespeare to a simple level that children could read and comprehend. -
Brother's Grimm begin to publish Grimm's Fairytales
Is a collection of German fairy tales first published in 1812 by the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm. -
United States declares war on Great Britian
The War of 1812 was a 32-month military conflict between the United States and the British Empire and their Indian allies which resulted in no territorial change, but a resolution of many issues which remained from the American War of Independence. The United States declared war in 1812 for several reasons, including trade restrictions brought about by Britain's ongoing war with France, the impressment of American merchant sailors into the Royal Navy, etc.. -
Jane Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice
The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. It has become one of the most popular novels in English literature and receives considerable attention from literary scholars. -
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein
About a creature produced by an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was nineteen, and the novel was published when she was twenty-one.The storyline emerged from a dream. Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. -
Noah Webster publishes An American Dictionary of the English Language
It was published in two quarto volumes containing 70,000 entries,[1] as against the 58,000 of any previous dictionary. There were only 2,500 copies printed, at $20 for the two volumes. Partially due to the relatively high price, the book sold poorly and all copies were not bound up at the same time; the book also appeared in publisher's boards; other original bindings of a later date are not unknown. -
Victor Huge publishes The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The French title refers to the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, on which the story is centered, and is a metaphor for Esmeralda, the main character of the story. The original French title, Notre-Dame de Paris (the formal title of the Cathedral) indicates that the Cathedral itself is the most significant aspect of the novel, both the main setting and the focus of the story's themes. Another important theme in the novel is that a person cannot be judged by their looks or appearances.
