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Birth of census democracies
In Europe, the 19th century was characterized by the birth of census democracies and the decline of absolute monarchies. The French Revolution and the subsequent Napoleonic era would help expand republican and liberal ideas. -
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Social context
Defense of Freedom: The Romantics break with all kinds of norms, both social and artistic, and will consider the rebels heroes. Idealism: They pursue great ideals such as perfect love, absolute beauty, justice, happiness, almost always impossible to achieve in reality. Nature as a reflection of the state of mind: Sad, melancholic, desolate Home life Increased the availability of stoves and gas heaters, which tested the heating. -
The locomotive
The first railway steam locomotive in operation on an operational scale was built by Richard Trevithick in 1802. It was manufactured for the Coalbrookdale foundry in Shropshire in England, although it has preserved no trace of its operation there. -
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War of Independence
The Spanish War of Independence was a military conflict, developed between 1808 and 1814 within the context of the Napoleonic Wars, which pitted the allied powers of Spain, the United Kingdom and Portugal against the First French Empire, whose intention was to establish in the Spanish throne to Napoleon's brother, Joseph Bonaparte, after the Bayonne abdications. -
Architecture
The romantic movement in architecture was born in England but it is in Germany where it is most welcomed. The return to the Gothic style is not without competitors, neoclassical ideas do not die completely and maintain a permanent struggle with the return of pure Gothic. Ever characteristic Rebellion against restrictions gives the romantic its main characteristic, eclecticism, that is, the use of various Neo-Gothic and Neoclassical styles. -
Female and male clothing
Mens. The introduction of the corset. Lantern shoulder pads, cuffs, lapel collars, hats and jackets are used. Pants will be worn narrow.
Women. Great volume in sleeves and skirts through several layers of ruffles and petticoats under the dress. And in the middle of the century the silhouette of the romantic style changed by increasing the volume of the skirt and decreasing the volume of the sleeves and neck, as well as hats and headdresses. -
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Reign of Elizabeth II
The year 1848 was marked in Europe by the outbreak of serious political revolts, and the romantic current flowed strongly in Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany and France. -
Invention of the electric vehicle
The honor is attributed to Scotsman Robert Anderson, a businessman who is said to have invented the first pure electric vehicle between 1832 and 1839. It was a horse-drawn carriage, to which an electric motor was adapted. -
Expansion
The year 1848 was marked in Europe by the outbreak of serious political revolts, and the romantic current flowed strongly in Italy, Spain, Austria, Germany and France. -
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Revolutions of 1848
The revolutions of 1848 are historiographical names of the revolutionary wave that ended Restoration Europe.