Romantic Era and Politics

By bahnoogah

  • Goethe Birth

  • Romantic Era Begins

    Approximate date; beginning of newer thinking, focusing more closely on passion and nature as opposed to the sciences and logical reasoning.

  • Blake Birth

  • Wollstonecraft Birth

  • Boston Massacre

    Patriots threw things at royal soldiers which resulted in their deaths

  • Wordsworth is Born

    In Cockermouth, Cumbria in England to a lawyer and a housewife.

  • Coleridge Birth

  • Declaration of Independence

  • Bryon Birth

  • Beginning of the French Revolution

    Approximate date

  • Storming of Bastille

  • Aa Vindication of the Rights of Women by Wollstonecraft

    Approximate date; about encouraging women to accept themselves as well as strive for more than being a docile housewife

  • Shelley Birth

  • Louis XVI is executed

  • The Tyger by Blake

  • Keats Birth

  • Wollstonecraft Death

  • Irish Uprising of 1798

    Result of the oppression of the Catholic Church under the British government.

  • End of the French Revolution

    Appromixate date

  • Goethe's Faust Published

    Aapproximate date

  • Espronceda Birth

  • Portrait of Yevgraf Davydov by Kiprensky

  • Poe Birth

  • Abraham Lincoln born

  • Napolean defeated in Waterloo

  • Kubla Khan by Coleridge

    Approximate date; written after an opium-driven slumber, in which he had a vision of a poem, so he wrote.

  • Endymion by Keats

    Approximate date; a poem based on the Greek myth of the same name.

  • Don Juan by Byron

    Approximate date; a satirical epic poem

  • The Masque of Anarchy by Shelley

    Aapproximate date; first noticeable work using the principal of nonviolent resistence.

  • Keats Death

  • Shelley Death

  • Byron Death

  • Blake Death

  • First Reform Act

    Wide range of changes in the British and Welsh electoral system.

  • Goethe Death

  • Coleridge Death

  • El estudiante de Salamanca by Espronceda

    Approximate date; similar to Byron's Don Juan, adopting a similar archetype with his own spin.

  • Espronceda Death

  • The Raven by Poe

    Aapproximate date; about a man's fall into madness, using aspects of supernatural ideas and love.

  • Poe Death

  • Wordsworth Death

  • Wordsworth's The Prelude

    Approximate date; published posthumously and is known as Wordsworth's most impactful work. Constantly revised from 1798 until his death, 52 years later.

  • Rimbaud Birth

  • A Season in Hell by Rimbaud

    Approximate date; a "pagan" book, described by himself as a "half a dozen horror stories" but at the same time, "stupid and innocent."

  • End of Romantic Period

    Approximate date; end of the development of this particular area of thought.

  • Rimbaud Death