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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Born in Switzerland, Rousseau was a philosopher, writer, and political theorist whose works inspired the leaders of the French Revolution. -
Thomas Paine is born
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Frederick The Great
The Reign of Frederick the Great in Prussia was from 1740-1786. -
Thomas Holcroft
English Dramatist, novelist, journalist and actor. Wrote the melodrama "The Road to Ruin" (1784), a translation of Beaumarchais's play "Le Mariage de Figaro" (1784). -
Fanny Burney
Daughter of Charles Burney (a musician), Frances Burney was an English novelist and letter writer. -
Joseph de Maistre
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The British and French begin to fight each other for land in North America
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Birth of Louis XVI who ruled France from 1774 to 1792
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Start Of the Seven Years' War
(date unknown) The Seven Years' War started in 1756 and ended in 1763. Prussia + Britain defeated France, Russia + Austria thereby doubling the size of Prussia which was ruled by Frederick the Great. -
William Godwin
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Siraj ud-Daulah,Prince of Bengal of India captures a trading base Killing more than 100 British by leaving them to die in the Black Hole of Calcutta
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Robert Clive defeats Prince of Bengal of India in the Battle of Plassey following which citizens are forced to pay taxes to the British East India Company
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William Blake is Born
William Blake was an English artist, poet, and visionary, and author. He wrote "Songs of Innocence"( 1789), "Songs of Experience:(1794), "Visions of the Daughters of Albion" (1793), "The First Book of Urizen" (1794), " Milton"(1804), and "Jerusalem" (1804) -
Mary Wollstonecraft
English writer and passionate advocate for educational and social equality for women. Wrote "Mary: A Fiction" (1788) and "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" (1792) -
General James Wolfe
Under the leadership of General James Wolfe The British capture the French city of Quebec . -
Catherine the Great
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End of the Seven Years' War
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The Peace of Paris
In 1763, the treaty signed by Britain, France, Spain and Portugal to end the Seven years war and effectively make Britain the most powerful force in Europe. Among the agreements the French sign over most of their land rights in Canada to Britain. -
Maria Edgeworth
An Anglo-Irish writer, Edgeworth was known her children's stories and her novels about Irish life. -
Spinning Jenny
(date unknown) The inventor was James Hargreaues. The Spinning Jenny could spin 15 threads at once instead of one. It revolutionized the fabric making industry. -
Captain James Cook of Britain sets sail to the South Pacific.
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Captain James Cook lands at Botony Bay and claims Australia for Britain
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William Wordsworth
English poet whose lyrical ballads helped start the Romantic movement with the help of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. -
Sir Walter Scott
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Coleridge was an English lyrical poet, critic, and philosopher who worked with William Wordsworth. Both of whom started the Romantic movement. His works include " Biographia Literia" (1817), "Kubla Khan" (1816) -
Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party protests against taxes imposed on the tea. -
Jane Austen
English writer who is well known for her novels that portray middle-class England during the Romantic Period. Her works include: "Sense and Sensibility" (1811), "Pride and Prejudice" (1813), "Mansfield Park" (1814), "Emma" (1815), and "Northanger Abbey" (1817) -
The Declaration of Independence
The leaders of the 13 British Colonies sing The Declaration of Independence creating the country called the United States of America. -
France joins the USA against Britain in support of the newly formed United States
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau Death
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Battle of Yorktown
Britain is defeated by the United States of America aided by France.
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Britain sends convicts to Australia to work farms and settle
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Tennis Court Oath
In France
When the Poitevin cures, and some nobles, and clergy join the Third Estate it becomes The National Assembly and declares that the sovereignty of France belongs to the people, not the king. The group was locked out of the meeting room so they assembled on the tennis court and swore not to separate until a constitutional regime was established. -
A Meeting of the Estates-General was called by Lois XVI in Versailles
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The storming and fall of Bastille
Revolutionists take over this important prison in Paris. -
Declaration of the Rights of Man
In France, the Declaration of the Rights of Man was issued by The National Assembly -
The women of Paris invade Versailles
A march on Versailles forces the royal family back to Paris from Tuileries. Louis XVI is now considered a "prisoner" in Paris. -
Thomas Paine writes "The Rights of Man"
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The Royal family is arrested after trying to flee from France
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Denmark becomes the first country to stop the buying and selling of slaves.
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France declares war on Austria
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Louis XVI is sentenced to the guillotine
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The Start of the Reign of Terror
Ten month period in France where enemies of the revolution were rounded up and killed -
The National Convention Arrested Robespierre
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The End of The Reign of Terror
20000 to 40 000 people are killed -
John Keats
Born in London, England John Keats was a Romantic lyric poet. His poetry was known by its vivid imagery, and sensuous appeal. -
Alfred-Victor count de Vigny
A French poet, dramatist, and novelist. Some of his works are: "Cinq-Mars" (1826), "Stello" (1832), "Chatterton" (1835), "The Military Necessity" (1835), and "Les Destines" (1864). -
Mary Shelley (nee Wollstonecraft Godwin)
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Mary Wollstonecraft Died
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Northern United States bans slavery with The Act Prohibiting the Importation of Slaves.
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Thomas Holcroft Death
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Thomas Paine Death
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Part 3
And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
It flung up momently the sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:
And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from farAncestral voices prophesying war! -
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The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device,A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song,To such a deep delight 'twould win me,That with music loud and long, -
Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round:And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;And here were forests ancient as the hills,Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. Down the green hill ath -
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But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slantedDown the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!A savage place! as holy and enchantedAs e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon lover!And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,A mighty fountain momently was forced:Amid whose swift half-intermitted burstHuge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail: -
Last Part
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise. -
Jane Austen Death
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Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
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That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees,
In some melodious plot
Of beechen green and shadows numberless,
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O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
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Fade far away, dissolve, and quite forget
What thou among the leaves hast never known,
The weariness, the fever, and the fret
Here, where men sit and hear each other groan;
Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
And leaden-eyed despairs,
Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes,
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Away! away! for I will fly to thee,
Not charioted by Bacchus and his pards,
But on the viewless wings of Poesy,
Though the dull brain perplexes and retards:
Already with thee! tender is the night,
And haply the Queen-Moon is on her throne,
Cluster'd around by all her starry Fays;
But here there is no light,
Save what from heaven is with the breezes blown
Through verdurous glooms and winding mossy ways. I cannot see what flowers -
Part 6
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a mused rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain,
While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad
In such an ecstasy!
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Last Part
Forlorn! the very word is like a bell
To toll me back from thee to my sole self!
Adieu! the fancy cannot cheat so well
As she is fam'd to do, deceiving elf.
Adieu! adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
In the next valley-glades:
Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet,
Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs,
But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet
Wherewith the seasonable month endows
The grass, the thicket, and the fruit-tree wild;
White hawthorn, and the pastoral eglantine;
Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves;
And mid-May's eldest child,
The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine,
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Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!
No hungry generations tread thee down;
The voice I hear this passing night was heard
In ancient days by emperor and clown:
Perhaps the self-same song that found a path
Through the sad heart of Ruth, when, sick for home,
She stood in tears amid the alien corn;
The same that oft-times hath
Charm'd magic casements, opening on the foam
Of perilous seas, in faery lands forlorn. -
John Keats Death
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Joseph de Maistre Death
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William Blake Death
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Sir Walter Scott Death
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Death
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William Godwin Death
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Fanny Burney Death
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New Zealand declared as a British Colony agreed to by the Treaty of Waitangi
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Maria Edgeworth Death
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William Wordsworth Death
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Britain is known as "the Workshop of the world" because of the wealth and power gained by building so many factories during the Industrial Revolution. having so many factories.
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Mary Shelley Death
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Indian Soldiers in Bengal rebel against Britain but are defeated
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Britain takes control of India from the East India Country, making India “the Jewel in the Crown” for the British Empire
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Alfred-Victor count de Vigny Death
