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followed by the Napoleonic Wars until 1815. These wars, along with the political and social turmoil that went along with them, served as the background for Romanticism.
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The Quasi-War was an undeclared war, fought almost entirely by naval forces, between the United States and France.
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Eroica, 3rd-9th Symphony
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" is published. -
Emily Bronte died from tuberculosis. Emily's only novel, Wuthering Heights, had been published just a year earlier. -
The Fugitive Slave Act allows slave owners to reclaim escaped slaves from free states. -
Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is published -
Impressionism developed in France in the nineteenth century and is based on the practice of painting out of doors and spontaneously 'on the spot' rather than in a studio from sketches. Main impressionist subjects were landscapes and scenes of everyday life.