Timeline Romanticism

Timeline: Romanticism

1787: Establishment of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Trade in Slaves

1780s-1840s: The Industrial Revolution

1789: The French Revolution

1790: William Blake publishes The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

1798: William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads

1807: British slave trade outlawed

1811-1820: the Regency (George, Prince of Wales, acts as regent for George III who has been declared insane)

1818: Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein

1819: Lord Byron publishes Don Juan

1819: Peterloo Massacre in Manchester wherein the cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000 people demanding parliamentary reform.

1819: John Keats publishes Ode on a Grecian Urn and Ode to a Nightingale

1820: Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Prometheus Unbound

1820: accession of George IV

1821: John Keats dies

1822: Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns in a boating accident

1824: Lord Byron dies

1830: Accession of William IV

1832: Passage of the Reform Bill in Parliament

The five I’s of romanticism are imagination, intuition, individuality, idealism, and inspiration.