Poltics and Poets of the Romantic Period By michalamski Aug 28, 1749 Johann Goethe is born Period: Jan 1, 1750 to Jan 1, 1880 Romantic Period Jun 20, 1756 Black Hole of Calcutta Nov 28, 1757 William Blake is born Apr 27, 1759 Mary Wollstonecraft is born Jan 1, 1770 The Triangle Trade ships millions of African people across the Atlantic as slaves Apr 7, 1770 William Wordsworth is born Oct 21, 1772 Taylor Coleridge is born Dec 16, 1773 Boston Tea Party Apr 19, 1775 American Revolutionary War begins Jul 4, 1776 Declaration of Independence Sep 3, 1783 American Revolutionary War ends Sep 17, 1787 The American Constitution is signed Jan 22, 1788 Lord Byron is born Jan 1, 1789 William Blake's Songs of Innocence Jul 14, 1789 Storming of the Bastille Jan 1, 1792 Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Women Aug 4, 1792 P.B. Shelley is born Sep 1, 1792 Massacres of Royalists and other prisoners in Paris Jan 21, 1793 Louis XVI is executed Oct 16, 1793 Marie Antoinette is executed Oct 31, 1795 John Keats is born Apr 18, 1797 Treaty of Leoben Sep 10, 1797 Mary Wollstonecraft dies Jan 1, 1798 William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads Apr 30, 1803 Louisiana Purchase Dec 2, 1805 Battle of Austerlitz Jul 7, 1807 Napoleon and Russian tsar Alexander I meet at Tilsit and set about carving up Europe Jan 1, 1808 Johann Goethe's Faust Mar 25, 1808 Jose Espronceda is born Jan 19, 1809 Edgar Allan Poe is born Jan 1, 1812 Lord Byron's Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage Jun 24, 1812 Napoleon launches an attack on his ally, Alexander I Jan 1, 1813 P.B. Shelley's Queen Mab: A Philosophical Poem Jun 18, 1815 Napolean is defeated at Waterloo Sep 26, 1815 Holy Alliance to save Christian Europe formed between Prussia, Austria, and Russia Jan 1, 1816 Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan Jan 1, 1819 John Keat's Six Odes Jan 1, 1819 The Sikh maharajah of the Punjab, Ranjit Singh, conquers Kashmir, beginning a century and a half of Sikh dominance Jan 1, 1820 The Eastern Question becomes a common theme Jan 1, 1821 Mainland Antarctica is discovered Feb 23, 1821 John Keats dies Jul 8, 1822 P.B. Shelley dies Apr 19, 1824 Lord Byron dies Aug 12, 1827 William Blake dies Mar 22, 1832 Johann Goethe dies Aug 28, 1833 Slavery Abolution Act Jul 25, 1834 Taylor Coleridge dies Feb 23, 1836 Siege of the Alamo Jan 1, 1837 Jose Espronceda's El Estudiante de Salamanca Jan 1, 1839 First Opium War begins in China Jan 1, 1842 First Opium War Ends May 23, 1842 Jose Espronceda dies Jan 1, 1845 Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven Jul 26, 1847 Liberia gains independence as a republic Jan 24, 1848 Gold Rush begins in Calfornia Dec 10, 1848 Napolean Bonaparte is elected president of France Oct 7, 1849 Edgar Allan Poe dies Jan 1, 1850 Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty breaks out in southern China (Taiping Rebellion) Apr 23, 1850 William Wordsworth dies Oct 1, 1853 Crimean War begins Oct 20, 1854 Arthur Rimbaud is born Feb 1, 1856 Crimean War ends Jan 1, 1861 First transcontiental telegraph line Apr 12, 1861 American Civil War begins Jan 1, 1864 Taiping Rebellion ends with 20 mil. Chinese lives lost Jan 1, 1865 Leo Tolstoy's first volume of War and Peace May 9, 1865 American Civil War Ends Jan 1, 1869 Russian scientist Mendeleev publishes periodic table May 10, 1869 The first US transcontinental railroad is completed Nov 17, 1869 Suez Canal is opened Jan 1, 1873 Arthur Rimbaud's A Season in Hell Nov 10, 1891 Arthur Rimbaud dies