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Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period and Romantic period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the Brandenburg Concertos;
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Ludwig van Beethoven[n 1] (baptised 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827) was a German composer and pianist. He is one of the most revered figures in the history of Western music.
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The French Revolution[a] was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789, and ended with the coup of 18 Brumaire in November 1799 and the formation of the French Consulate.
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The traditional monarchy who had ruled France for three centuries collapsed in three years, giving rise to the French Republic until Napoleon declared himself emperor in 1804. -
Mary Wollstonecraft was the first advocate for women's rights. She fought for the education and intelligence of women as Rousseau called them "weak and artificial". Furthermore, she believed that rationality and reason formed the basis of human rights. -
Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, generally considered to have marked the beginning of the English Romantic movement in literature. -
The Napoleonic era is a period in the history of France and Europe. It is generally classified as including the fourth and final stage of the French Revolution.
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The "new science of biology" was first termed biologie by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck in 1801, and was "an independent scientific discipline born at the end of a long process of erosion of 'mechanical philosophy,' -
In order to fulfill his dreams of conquest in Europe, Napoleon crowned himself emperor. -
Goethean science concerns the natural philosophy (German Naturphilosophie "philosophy of nature") of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Although primarily known as a literary figure, Goethe did research in morphology, anatomy, and optics. He also developed a phenomenological approach to natural history, an alternative to Enlightenment natural science, which is still debated today among scholars. -
Known as “Él Libertador” across South America, Simón Bolivar helped to sow the seeds of rebellion and independence in many countries in the northern parts of South America. -
The Romantic Period ended with the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837.