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RecID: 1169 |
1819 |
Blake's pictures: Visionary Heads and Ghost of a Flea. |
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RecID: 1170 |
1819 |
The Quarterly publishes scathing review of P. B. Shelley's The Revolt of Islam, with a
vicious attack on his character. |
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RecID: 1177 |
1819 |
Reform: Six Acts passed against radical political Unions prohibits assemblies similar to St. Peter's Fields and imposes press censorship. |
*Parliamentary Reform |
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RecID: 1787 |
1819 |
Thomas Campbell, Specimens of the British Poets; With Biographical and Critical Notice. |
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RecID: 1825 |
1819 |
Robert Southey, History of Brazil, Vol. 3 |
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RecID: 1837 |
1819 |
William Cobbett, A Grammar of the English Language, in a Series of Letters. |
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RecID: 1964 |
1819 |
Publication Beethoven's Piano Sonata in B flat major, Op. 106. |
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RecID: 1966 |
1819 - 1823 |
Beethoven, Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli for piano, Op. 120 and Missa solemnis in D major, Op. 123 (originally meant for Archduke Randolph's enthronement but Beethoven failed to finish in time). |
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RecID: 1171 |
Feb 8, 1819 |
Birth of John Ruskin, London. |
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RecID: 1172 |
May 1819 |
Death of William Shelley at 3 yrs old; Mary Shelley, in a depression, begins writing an incest novella, Mathilda (see May 1820 below). |
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RecID: 1154 |
May 24, 1819 |
Birth of Queen Victoria (Kensington Palace, London). |
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RecID: 1174 |
July 1819 |
Byron's Don Juan published anonymously and then pirated to Murray's distress. |
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RecID: 1175 |
Aug 16, 1819 |
Peterloo Massacre at Manchester: Mounted troops charged on a meeting, killing and maiming many people; it was a large, orderly and peaceful group of 60,000 that met at St. Peter's Fields, Manchester, to demand Parliamentary Reform. |
*Parliamentary Reform |
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RecID: 1155 |
Aug 26, 1819 |
Birth of Prince Albert (near Coburg, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha) |
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RecID: 1176 |
Nov 12, 1819 |
Birth of Percy Florence Shelley. |
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RecID: 1792 |
Dec 1819 |
William Hone and George Cruikshank, The Political House that Jack Built. |
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RecID: 1178 |
1820 |
Revolts in Spain and Italy against Bourbons. In Madrid, mutiny by troops who refuse to go to South America to oppose revolution. Spanish liberales continue opposition against Bourbons in Spain. Palermo revolts briefly. Naples forms a Republic. Revolution in Portugal. England: dissolution of Parliament. Cato street conspiracy. Throughout Europe, Royalist reactions. |
*France
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RecID: 1179 |
1820 |
W. Wordsworth, The River Duddon, a Series of Sonnets: Vaudracour and Julia: and other Poems, The Miscellaneous Poems of W.W. in 4 vols., Memorials of a Tour on the Continent. |
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RecID: 1180 |
1820 |
John Clare, Poems Descriptive of Rural Life. |
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RecID: 1181 |
1820 |
Keats, Lamia, Isabella, Hyperion. |
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RecID: 1182 |
1820 |
P. B. Shelley, Prometheus Unbound. |
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RecID: 1183 |
1820 |
Robert Southey, A Vision of Judgment. |
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RecID: 1184 |
1820 |
Felicia Hemans, "Stanzas to the Memory of the Late King," The Skeptic (attacks Byron and P. B. Shelley). |
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RecID: 1185 |
1820 |
Amelia Opie, Tales of the Heart. |
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RecID: 1186 |
1820 |
Elizabeth Barrett, "The Battle of Marathon." |
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