Romanticism Timeline
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Updated: 22 Jun 2020
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Created byGiovanna Marasco
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH IS BORNWILLIAM WORDSWORTH DIESDOROTHY WORDSWORTH IS BORNWILLIAM BLAKE DIESJOHN KEATS IS BORNJOHN KEATS DIESShelley marries Mary GodwinPERCY SHELLEY DIESLORD BYRON IS BORNLORD BYRON DIESBlake apprenticed to engraver James BasireBlake admitted to the Royal Academy Schools to study art.Blake marries Catherine BoucherBlake self-publishes 'Songs of Innocence' and 'The Book of Thel'Blake self-publishes 'Songs of Experience'Blake's health declinesWordsworth moves to the Lake DistrictWordsworth begins at Cambridge UniversityWordsworth graduatesWordsworth travels to FranceWordsworth leaves his family in FranceWordsworth and Coleridge publish Lyrical BalladsWordsworth's return to the Lake DistrictWordsworth marries Mary HutchinsonDorothy Wordsworth becomes unwellSAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE DIESSamuel Taylor Coleridge is bornWordsworth becomes Poet LaureateMARY WOLLSTONECRAFT GODWIN (SHELLEY) IS BORNMARY SHELLEY DIESThe storming of the BastilleSlavery abolished in all northern states of the USAThe 13th Amendment - Slavery abolished in U.S.Frankenstein is publishedIrish RebellionFirst cylinder printing pressFirst iron printing pressPERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY IS BORNShelley enrolls at OxfordShelley is expelled from OxfordShelley elopes with Harriet WestbrookShelley meets and runs away with MaryMary gives birth to ClaraMary gives birth to WilliamShelley and Byron summer in Switzerland; Villa DiodatiByron leaves the UK foreverFanny Godwin's suicideHarriet Westbrook's suicideThe Shelleys follow Byron to ItalyClara Everina (daughter) dies.William Shelley (son) diesPercy Florence is bornPrometheus Unbound is publishedAdonais - Elegy for KeatsMary publishes Shelley's poemsWordsworth begins 'The Prelude''The Prelude' is publishedExecution of Louis XVIShelley goes to IrelandMary gives birth to Clara EverinaWordsworth publishes 'Ode: Intimations on Immortality'Byron writes ‘Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup'Byron writes ‘So We'll Go No More a-Roving'Byron writes 'On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year'Shelley writes 'The Cold Earth Slept Below'Shelley writes 'Stanzas Written in Dejection, near Naples'Shelley writes 'Ode to the West Wind'Shelley publishes 'The Question'Keats writes 'Ode to a Nightingale'Keats writes 'Ode on a Grecian Urn'Keats writes 'Ode on Melancholy'Keats writes 'Sonnet on the Sea'Greece recognised as a stateRevolutions in the Italian StatesItaly becomes a nation-stateNapoleon abdicates and is exiledNapoleon diesByron travels in EuropeByron returns to EnglandByron in griefByron publishes Childe HaroldeByron's half-sister Augusta Leigh gives birthByron marries Anne MilbankeAnnabella Milbanke divorces ByronByron's daughter, Clara Allegra, is bornByron's daughter, Clara Allegra, diesByron joins the Greek RevolutionByron family moves to ScotlandByron inherits his father's debtsByron becomes baron, moves to EnglandByron enters HarrowByron begins at Cambridge UniversityByron graduates, becomes a fatherThomas Chatterton's suicideRousseau publishes 'The Social Contract'Rousseau publishes 'Emile, or On Education'Keats arrives in RomeWILLIAM BLAKE BORNBlake experiences visionsWilliam Godwin bornMary WollstonecraftActs of Union 1800Battle of WaterlooWilliam Godwin diesThe Peterloo MassacreSlavery Abolition Act (UK)Keats' father diesKeats' mother, Frances, diesKeats enrols at Guy's HospitalKeats' qualifies as an apothecary & surgeonKeats' brother, Tom, diesKeats courts Fanny Brawne; writes prolificallyKeats contracts tuberculosisKeats travels to Naples; is quarantinedKeats leaves medicine; moves to HampsteadLyrical Ballads republished with prefaceKeats' enters John Clarke's school, EnfieldDe Quincey: 'Confessions of an English Opium Eater'Burke: 'Reflections on the Revolution in France'Franklin experiments with electricityGoethe: The Sorrows of Young WertherJ. M. W. Turner opens his galleryGordon RiotsRoman Catholic Relief ActBlake participates in Gordon RiotsOrange Order establishedSir Isaac Newton diesUranus is discoveredThe beginning of modern chemistryExtinction established as factDarwin's Theory of Evolution by Natural SelectionGerm TheoryThe PantheismusstreitPantheism condemned by the VaticanPeriods
Reign of King George IITHE FRENCH REVOLUTIONTHE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WARTHE AUGUSTAN AGEThe Reign of TerrorGreek War of IndependenceNationalism and the RisorgimentoReign of Queen VictoriaNapoleonic WarsReign of 'Mad' King George IIIReign of King George IVThe Regency PeriodReign of King William IVThe Industrial RevolutionThe EnlightenmentAn example of a time spanThe Luddite RebellionEvangelicalism: The First Great AwakeningEvangelicalism: The Second Great Awakening
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