History

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1780-1815

1789: Storming of the Bastille begins the French Revolution

1800: Thomas Jefferson is chosen as president

1803: Louisiana
Purchase

1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition

1804: Napoleon declares himself Emperor of France

1809: Charles Darwin born

1812: War of 1812 begins

1811: Battle of Tippecanoe

1814: Russian and Prussian armies enter Paris

1815: Germany united under Bismarck

1815: The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena; Restoration of Louis XVIII

1804: Beethoven's 3rd Symphony "Eroica"

1803-1816: Beethoven's 3rd-8th Symphony written

1807-1808: Composed Symphony 5

1808: Symphony 6, "Pastoral," composed

1814: Franz Schubert, Gretchen am Spinnrade

1814: Francis Scott Key, "The Star-Spangled Banner"

1815: Beethoven, Sonatas in C major and D major, Op. 102

1805: Charles Willson Peale establishes the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,

1808: Francisco Goya painted the Second of May, and Third of May

1808: Sir Walter Scott, Marmion

1811: Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility written (first version written in 1796)

1812: Charles Dickens born, Portsmouth, Hampshire

1813: Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, published

1815-1830

1816: In Philadelphia, African Americans establish the first African Methodist Church.

1820: Sir Walter Scott knighted

1821: Napoleon dies on Saint Helena

1823: Monroe Doctrine stating that U.S. will not tolerate European interference in Western Hemisphere

1824: John Quincy Adams is elected president

1829: First steam-powered locomotive in America

1830: First railroad

1816: Rossini, Il barbiere di Siviglia and Otello

1817-1818: Beethoven, Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op. 106

1819-1827: Beethoven's 9th Symphony

1830: Berlioz, Le Symphonie Fantastique

1821: Wm.Blake paints a new series of Job watercolors

1824: Blake's pictures: Pilgrim's Progress designs and 100 Dante drawings produced

1824: Opening of the National Gallery

1816: Jane Austen, Emma

1816: E.T.A. Hoffmann, Undine

1817: Jane Austen dies; her identity as author of the famous novels that were annonomously published is announced by her brother Henry.

1818: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, (published anonymously)

1823: Translation of Jacob Grimm, Grimms' Fairy Tales

1830-1845

Around 1830: Lutheran Confessional Revival

1831: Oxford Movement

1832: Morse telegraph

1833: Industrial Revolution: Factory Act- restricts ages and hours one can employ children and adults in textile factories

1834: McCormick invents the reaper

1834: Christmas becomes a national holiday

1838: Daguerre takes first photographs

1838: Industrial Revolution: the first railway train enters London. Ocean Steamers to the U.S.

1840: Thomas Edison: Inventor

1842: Child Labor: Laws outlawing women and children in the mines

1843:Beginning of custom of sending Christmas cards

1831: Copyright Act of 1831 (first to include music)

1833: Johannes Brahms born

1833: Mendelssohn, Italian Symphony

1834: Belioz, Harold en Italie

1835: Strauss, Life of Jesus

1837: J.M.W. Turner exhibits The Parting of Hero and Leander at the Royal Academy

1838: Richard Townsend "Vision of the Western Railways"

1838: Daguerre takes first photographs

1839: George Scharf, Recollections of the Scenic Effects of Covent Garden Theatre

1840: William Mackpiece Thackeray, Paris Sketch Book

1843: William Mackpiece Thackeray, Irish Sketch Book

1831: Copyright Act of 1831

1831: Victor Hugo, Notre Dame of Paris

1833: Robert Browning, Pauline

1833: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, translation of Prometheus Bound

1833: Charles Dickens, A Dinner at Poplar Walk in Monthly Magazine

1835: Birth of Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

1836: Newspaper tax reduced from 4 pence to one penny

1837:Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist

1842: Illustrated London News begins publication

1843: Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol in Prose and Martin Chuzzlewit

1845: Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven and Other Poems

1845-1860

1845:John Franklin begins expedition to find Northwest passage

1848: Gold Rush

1848: United States annexes California, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico territories

1849: Black Society founded by William Bennet

1851: Gold found in Australia

1851: First formal chess competition held in London

1851-1852: Construction of King's Cross Station, London

1854-1856: Crimean War

1857: Second Great Awakening in America

1860: Darwin writes Origin of Species

1847: Felix Mendelssohn composed Elijah, his best known E-minor.Op.64

1847: Also, the Death of Felix Mendelssohn

1847: Opening of Royal Opera House at Covent Garden

1850: Richard Wagner, Lohengrin

1851: Death of J.M.W. Turner

1851: John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice

1851: Photography is popularized by introduction of "wet collodion" process

1851-1853: Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford

1859: The Town Hall in the Hauge, by Cornelis Springer

1845: Robert Browning, Dramatic Romances

1848: Marx-Communist Manifesto

1849:Ruskin, The Seven Lamps of Architects

1850: Robert Browning, Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day

1850: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

1850: The Public Libraries Act

1851: Death of Mary Shelley, London

1851: Herman Melville, Moby Dick

1860: Darwin writes Origin of Species

1860-1875

1861-1865: American Civil War

1865: Slavery abolished in America

1865: Lincoln assasinated

1865: Lister discovers antiseptics

1867: Alaska purchased

1869:Suez Canal opens

1870-1871: Franco-Prussian War

1863: Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address

1875-1898

1876: Telephone invented

1881: Tsar Alexander II assassinated

1881: President Garfield shot

1876: Otto
develops the 4-stroke gas engine.

1885: Pasteur develops inoculations.

1894: Schola Canorium (Paris)

1896:Roentgen discovers the x-ray

1896: Nobel Prizes begun.

1897: Wireless telegraphy

1898: Spanish-American War

1875: George Bizet died in France, on June 3, 1875, just as his most famous opera, Carmen, was gaining favor

Thomas Edison invents
sound recording (phonograph)
(patented in 1878)

1886: Statue of Liberty unveiled in New York

1889: Eiffel tower

1865: Louisa May Alcott, Eight Cousins

1867: Twain, Adventures of Tom Sawyer

1877: December 17 Mark Twain "Whittier Birthday Dinner Speech"

1882: Twain, The Prince and the Pauper

1884: Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

1886: Alcott,Jo's Boys

1891: Dickinson, Poems: Second Series

In period

Growth of Capitialism and Socialism