BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY PART – X/XXII

BRITISH LITERATURE – CHRONOLOGY

PART – X/XXII

ROMANTIC PERIOD

CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORICAL EVENTS

1800 Union with Ireland

1801 Union of British and Irish Parliaments; Habeas Corpus suspended again.

1802 Peace of Amiens.

1803 War with France renewed

1804 Bonaparte becomes Emperor Napoleon I

1805 Battle of Trafalgar and Nelson's victory

1807 Abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire

1808 Peninsular War begins

1809 Moore killed at Corunna

1811 Prince of Wales becomes Regent; Luddite riots

1812 French retreat from Moscow

1814 Napoleon abdicates and retreats to Elba; Stephenson's steam locomotive; Restoration of Louis XVIII

1815 Battle of Waterloo; Corn law passed

1816 Elgin marbles bought by British Museum

1817 Habeas Corpus Act suspended

1818 Habeas Corpus Act restored

1819 Peterloo massacre

1820 Death of George III; Accession of George IV

1821 Greeks rise against Turks

1824 National Gallery opened; 1824 death of Byron in Greece

1825 Financial crisis; Trade union legalized; Stockton to Darlington railway

1827 Battle of Navarino; Scott acknowledges authorship of the Waverley novels

1828 Repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts

1829 Catholic Emancipation Act

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