Ironbridge

Period between 1760-1837

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    Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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    Edmund Burke

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    William Blake

  • George III

    George III

    George III comes to the throne
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    William Wordsworth

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    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • The Boston Tea Party

    The Boston Tea Party

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    American War of Independence

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    Jane Austen

  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence

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    Romanticism

  • Peace Treaty in Paris

    Great Britain recognised the independence of the United States of America
  • Will Pitt

    Will Pitt

    William Pitt the Younger is chosen as Prime Minister at the age of 24 by George III
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    Britain at war with revolutionary France

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    George Gordon Byron

  • George Washington

    George Washington

    George Washington becomes the first President of the United States of America.
  • The French Revolution breaks out

    The French Revolution breaks out

  • Songs of Innocence

    Songs of Innocence

    by W. Blake
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    Percy Bysshe Shelley

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    Reign of Terror in France

  • Songs of Experience

    Songs of Experience

    by W. Blake
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    John Keats

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    Marry Shelley

  • Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge

    Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge

  • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    by S. Coleridge

  • Act of Union with Ireland

  • Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France

    Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France

  • Battle of Trafalgar

    Battle of Trafalgar

  • Daffodils

    Daffodils

    Poems in two volumes by W. Wordsworth
  • Luddite riots (1811-1812)

    Luddite riots (1811-1812)

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    Regency

    The future George IV is made Prince Regent because of George's III illness
  • Pride and Prejudice

    Pride and Prejudice

  • Battle of Waterloo

    Battle of Waterloo

  • Europe after the Congress of Vienna

    Europe after the Congress of Vienna

  • Congress of Vienna

    Congress of Vienna

    The Congress of Vienna, a meeting of ambassadors of European states, was held in Vienna from November 1814 to June 1815.
    The objective of the Congress was to provide a long-term peace plan for Europe by settling critical issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.
  • Frankenstein

    Frankenstein

  • Peterloo massacre

    Peterloo massacre

  • George IV was crowned

    George IV was crowned

  • Trade unions are legalised

  • First public railway

    First public railway

    Opening of the first public railway from Stockton to Darlington
  • Metropolitan Police

    Metropolitan Police

    Metropolitan Police force is established
  • William IV comes to the throne

    William IV comes to the throne

  • The Great Reform Act

    Vote is extended to almost all male members of the middle class

  • Britain abolishes slavery

  • Accession of Queen Victoria

    Accession of Queen Victoria