The Flowering of
Romanticism
A’isha Sharif
Madi Hill
Braeden Perkins
Events In The World
The Flowering of Romance
1799- Coup d'état establishes Napoleon dictator of France(crowned Emperor in
1804)
 1803- U.S. president Jefferson buys Louisiana territory form France.
 1804- Haiti gains independence from France.
 1805- Napoleon begins conquering most of Europe (to 1812); Muhammad Ali
begins rule and modernization of Egypt.
 1808- U.S. abolishes slave trade
 1814- Congress of Vienna opens seeking to remake Europe after Napoleon’s
downfall and prevent spread of French ideals of democracy (to 1815).
 1816- Zulu chief Shaka begins rule over large kingdom in southeastern Africa
(to 1828)
 1817- Ludwig van Beethoven, nearly deaf, begins composing monumental
Ninth Symphony (to 1823)
 1821- Spain’s Latin American Empire begins collapse as Mexico, several
Central American states, and Venezuela win independence.
 1823- U.S. president Monroe issues Monroe Doctrine to keep Europe out of
Latin America
 1824-1825: Simon Bolivar liberates last Spanish colonies in Latin America.
 1829- Greece wins full independence from Ottoman Turks
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1790-1830
1798 to 1832
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1790: British diplomats
assemble Second Coalition
(Britain, Austria, and
Russia) hoping to drive
Napoleon from power in
France
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1800: Act of Union passed,
creating United Kingdom of 
Great Britain and Ireland
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1805: British fleet defeats
Napoleon’s navy in the
Battle of Trafalgar off the
Spanish coast, ending
Napoleon’s hoped of
invading Britain
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1807: British Slave Trade
abolished
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1811: George III declared
permanently insane; eldest
son George, Prince of
Wales, named regent
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1812: Britain fights US in
War of 1812
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1815: British and Prussian
armies under British leader
Wellington defeat Napoleon
at Waterloo
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1818: Crossing of Atlantic
Ocean by steamship
1819: “Peterloo Massacre”11 killed in St.Peter’s Field, 
Manchester, when cavalry
charges social
reformers1820: Regency
ends with the death of
George III and crowning of
Prince of Wales as George
IV
1821: Engineer George
Stephenson begins work on
the world’s first railroad line
(passenger service starts in
1825)
1829: First waterpurification plant built in
London; Catholic
Emancipation Act passed,
freeing Catholics from
restrictions
1830: George IV dies;
reign of brother, William IV,
begins (to 1837)
1832: First Reform Bill
extends voting rights to
middle-class men but
affects only 5% of
population
1790-1832
Events in British Literature
Events in British Literature
1798:
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor
Coleridge publish “Tintern Abbey” and “The Rime of the
Ancient Mariner” anonymously in the book Lyrical
1818:
Ballads.
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein published
anonymously
1800:
1819:
Dorothy Wordsworth begins keeping
Grasmere Journals
1811:
Percy Bysshe Shelley writes “Ode to the West
Wind”; John Keats writes “Ode on a Grecian Urn” and “To
the Autumn”
Jane Austen’s Sense and Stability
published anonymously
1821:
1812:
1822:
John Keats, age 25, dies of tuberculosis
sections of Childe Harold’s pilgrimage
Percy Bysshe Shelley, age 29, drowns off
coast of Italy
1813:
1823:
Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice published
anonymously
from Turks
1814:
1824:
Lord Byron wins fame with first two
Sir Walter Scott anonymously publishes
Waverly
Lord Byron joins Greek war for liberation
Byron, age 36, dies of fever