Time Line of Events
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Time Line of Events |
English and Modern Languages |
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| 1774 J. W. von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther | ||
| 1775 American War of Independence (1775–83) | 1775 American War of Independence | |
| 1776 Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations | ||
| 1778 Frances Burney, Evelina | ||
| 1779 Samuel Johnson, Lives of the English Poets (1779–81) | ||
| 1780 Gordon Riots in London | 1780 Gordon Riots | |
| 1781 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions. J. C. Friedrich Schiller, The Robbers | 1781 Immanuel Kant | |
| 1783 William Pitt becomes prime minister (serving until 1801 and again in 1804–06) | ||
| 1784 Charlotte Smith, Elegiac Sonnets | 1784 Death of Samuel Johnson | |
| 1785 William Cowper, The Task | ||
| 1786 William Beckford, Vathek. Robert Burns, Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect | ||
| 1787 W. A. Mozart, Don Giovanni | ||
| 1789 Jeremy Bentham, Principles of Morals and Legislation. William Blake, Songs of Innocence | 1789 Fall of the Bastille (beginning of the French Revolution) | 1789 The French Revolution |
| 1790 Joanna Baillie, Poems. Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France | 1790 Henry James Pye succeeds Thomas Warton as poet laureate. J. M. W. Turner first exhibits at the Royal Academy | |
| 1791 William Gilpin, Observations on the River Wye. Paine, Rights of Man. Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest | ||
| 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman | 1792 September Massacres in Paris. First gas lights in Britain | |
| 1793 William Godwin, Political Justice | 1793 Execution of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. France declares war against Britain (and then Britain against France). The Reign of Terror | 1793 William Godwin, Political Justice |
| 1794 Blake, Songs of Experience. Godwin, Caleb Williams. Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho | 1794 The fall of Robespierre | |
| 1796 Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk | 1796 Matthew Gregory Lewis, The Monk | |
| 1798 Joanna Baillie, Plays on the Passions, volume 1. Bentham, Political Economy. Thomas Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population. William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads | ||
| 1800 Maria Edgeworth, Castle Rackrent. Mary Robinson, Lyrical Tales |
| 1802 Treaty of Amiens. Edinburgh Review founded. John Constable first exhibits at the Royal Academy | ||
| 1804 Napoleon crowned emperor | 1804 Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| 1805 The French fleet defeated by the British at Trafalgar | ||
| 1807 Wordsworth, Poems in Two Volumes | 1807 Abolition of the slave trade in Britain | |
| 1808 Goethe, Faust, part 1 | ||
| 1808 Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphonies 5 and 6 | ||
| 1811 The Prince of Wales becomes regent for George III, who is declared incurably insane | ||
| 1812 Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, cantos 1 and 2. Felicia Hemans, The Domestic Affections | 1812 War between Britain and the United States (1812Ð15) | 1812 War between Britain and the United States |
| 1813 Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice | 1813 Robert Southey succeeds Pye as poet laureate | |
| 1814 Walter Scott, Waverley. Wordsworth, The Excursion | 1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo | |
| 1816 Byron, Childe Harold, cantos 3 and 4. Coleridge, Christabel, Kubla Khan. Percy Shelley, Alastor | ||
| 1817 Byron, Manfred. Coleridge, Biographia Literaria and Sibylline Leaves. John Keats, Poems | 1817 Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine founded. Death of Princess Charlotte | |
| 1818 Austen, Northanger Abbey. Keats, Endymion. Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein | ||
| 1819 Byron, Don Juan, cantos 1 and 2 | 1819 "Peterloo Massacre'' in Manchester | 1819 "Peterloo Massacre'' |
| 1820 John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life. Keats, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems. Percy Shelley, Prometheus Unbound | 1820 Death of George III; accession of George IV. London Magazine founded | |
| 1821 Thomas De Quincey, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Percy Shelley, Adonais | 1821 Deaths of Keats in Rome and Napoleon at St. Helena | |
| 1822 Franz Schubert, Unfinished Symphony. Death of Percy Shelley in the Bay of Spezia, near Lerici, Italy | 1822 Music of Schubert | |
| 1824 Letitia Landon, The Improvisatrice | 1824 Death of Byron in Missolonghi | |
| 1827 Clare, The Shepherd's Calendar | ||
| 1828 Hemans, Records of Woman | ||
| 1830 Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (1830–33). Alfred Tennyson, Poems, Chiefly Lyrical | 1830 Death of George IV; accession of William IV | |
| 1832 First Reform Bill | 1832 First Reform Bill |
Last updated: June 21, 2005