The Romantic Period

  • Start of the romantic period

    Start of the romantic period
    The Romantic Period began roughly around 1797 . The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period, with many writers finding inspiration from the French Revolution.
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    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

    Austrian musician Franz Schubert, who has a huge repertoire of compositions: symphonies, sacred music, chamber music, piano music, opera and more than six hundred secular vocal works. As it happens with many authors, he was more recognized after his death than in life
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    Victor Hugo

    Victor Hugo is one of the best-known poets, novelists, and playwrights of French Romanticism. In addition to dedicating himself to literature, he was also a political asset.
  • dictionary noah webster 1828

    dictionary noah webster 1828
    An American Dictionary of the English Language was a dictionary published in 1828 by the American lexicographer Noah Webster, who, after having achieved great success with publications
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    María

    María, by the Colombian Jorge Isaacs , is the most important work of Spanish-American Romanticism. intimate
  • Revolutions of 1848

    Revolutions of 1848
    Revolutions of 1848, series of republican revolts against European monarchies, beginning in Sicily and spreading to France, Germany, Italy, and the Austrian Empire.
  • The New York Times

    The New York Times
    September 18: Journalist Henry J. Raymond published the first issue of The New York Times.
  • March 28

    March 28
    March 28: Britain and France declare war on Russia, entering The Crimean War. The conflict between was costly and had a very confusing purpose.
  • 1855

    1855
    November 17: David Livingstone became the first European to reach Victoria Falls in Africa.
  • Final of romantic period

    Final of romantic period