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1781–1788 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Confessions
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1781 Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
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1787 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Don Giovanni is first
performed
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1789 The National Assembly in France issues its charter,
Declaration of the Rights of Man
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1794 William Blake, Songs of Innocence and of
Experience
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1798 William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
Lyrical Ballads • Dorothy Wordsworth begins her journals
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1800 Novalis, Hymns to the Night
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1801 United Kingdom of Great Britain (England and Scotland) and
Ireland established
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1802 Coleridge, Dejection: An Ode
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1803 President Thomas Jefferson purchases French "Louisiana''
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1804 Napoleon crowned emperor of France
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1806 First published lyrics by Anna Petrovna Bunina
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1808 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust, Part I
(Part II, 1832)
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1812–1870 Charles Dickens, English novelist
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1815 Battle of Waterloo, ending Napoleon's career
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1816 Coleridge, Kubla Khan • John Keats, On
First Looking into Chapman's Homer
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1818–1820 Lyrics by Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats
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1820 Alphonse de Lamartine, Poetic Meditations,
his first collection of poems
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1824 Giacomo Leopardi, Canzoni, his first
collection of poems
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1827 Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs
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1828 Victor
Hugo, Odes and Ballads
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1831 First preparation of chloroform inaugurates a new medical
era
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1834 Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, The Queen of
Spades
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1837 Victoria crowned queen of the United Kingdom • Electric
telegraph patented
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1842 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
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1845 Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of
Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
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Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre • Emily
Brontë, Wuthering Heights |
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1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Communist Manifesto
• Revolutions in France, Italy, Austria, Prague • Gold discovered in
California
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1850 Alfred,
Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam
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1842–1855 Robert Browning writes poems, including "Childe
Roland to the Dark Tower Came''
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1854 Electric lightbulb invented
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1855 Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
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1859 Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, presenting his
theory of evolution
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1861 Serfs emancipated in Russia • Beginning of American Civil
War
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1863 Emancipation Proclamation frees slaves in the Confederate
States of America
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1864 Louis Pasteur, who formulated germ theory of infection,
invents pasteurization
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1865 American Civil War ends • President Abraham Lincoln
assassinated • Thirteenth amendment emancipates all slaves in the
United States
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1867 Karl Marx, Capital
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1874 First Impressionist Exhibition, Paris
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1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
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Rosalía de Castro, Beside the River
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1890 Emily Dickinson, Poems, published
posthumously
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1891 Herman Melville leaves manuscript of Billy Budd,
Sailor at his death; not published until 1924
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1894
X rays discovered by Bavarian physicist Wilhelm Röntgen
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