Neoclassicism through Romanticism

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Neoclassicism through Romanticism

• A Concise, Contextual Timeline

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A New Era 17th Century

• 1603 (24 March) Death of Elizabeth I, James I
  ascends throne
• 1603 Shakespeare Hamlet
• 1605 Cervantes - Don Quixote (Bk. 1)
• 1607 Virginia colonized by London company
  Jamestown founded
• 1608 Hans Lippershey manufactures first
  telescope

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It starts off on a bad footing

• 1611 Authorized version of Bible published
• 1616 Death of Shakespeare and Cervantes
• 1616 Catholic Church issues edict against
  Copernicanism
• 1618 Beginning of Thirty Years' War in Europe
• 1619 1st African slaves in Virginia

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The 20s and 30s

• 1620 Mayflower lands in Plymouth
• 1625 (27 March) Death of James I, Charles I
  ascends throne
• 1633 Galileo convicted of heresy
• 1637 Descartes - Discourse on Method

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Death, Peace, then more Death

• 1642 Galileo dies, Beginning of English Civil
  War
• 1643 Louis XIV takes throne in France
• 1648 Treaty of Westphalia (finally ends Thirty
  Years' War)
• 1649 Charles I beheaded

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Englands Own Coup DEtat

• 1651 Hobbes Leviathan
• 1653 Oliver Cromwell named Lord Protector
• 1658 Death of Cromwell

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Knowledge of Good and Evil

• 1660 Charles II welcomed back from exile
• 1662 Restoration of English monarchy, Charles II
  ascends throne
• 1665 Newton Leibniz independently invent
  calculus (yea!)
• 1665 Great Plague in London The Black Death
• 1666 2-6 September - Great Fire of London
• 1667 Milton - Paradise Lost

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Musical Chairs

• 1682 Peter I (the Great) becomes tsar of Russia
• 1685 Charles II dies, James II ascends throne
• 1688 "Glorious Revolution" James II flees to
  France
• 1689 King William III and Queen Mary II ascend
  throne

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Endings and New Beginnings

• 1690 Locke - Essay Concerning Human
  Understanding
• 1692 Witchcraft trials in Salem, Massachusetts
• 1694 Queen Mary dies

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Old Rivalries Die Hard

• 1701 James II dies in France
• 1702 King William dies, Queen Anne ascends
  throne
• 1714 Queen Anne dies, George I ascends throne
• 1715 Jacobite rebellion

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Quick Three Decades

• 1727 King George I dies, George II ascends
  throne
• 1732 Alexander Popes An Essay on Man epistles I
  II
• 1745 2nd Jacobite Rebellion is Crushed

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Enter the French

• 1755 Earthquake at Lisbon, Portugal
• 1756 Beginning of Seven Years War (French
  Indian War)
• 1756 Burke A Philosophical Enquiry into the
  Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
• 1759 Voltaires Candide

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Exit French, Enter America

• 1760 King George II dies, George III ascends
  throne
• 1763 Treaty of Paris ends Seven Years War
• 1773 Boston Tea Party
• 1776 United States Declaration of Independence
• 1778 Rousseau and Voltaire die

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Not Rousseaus Faultmaybe

• 1780 Rousseaus Confessions published
  posthumously
• 1789 French Revolution Begins

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Kindling the Romance

• 1794 Blake Songs of Innocence and Experience
• 1795 Schiller On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry
• 1798 Wordsworth Lyrical Ballads, Coleridge
  Kubla Khan

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Odes and Monsters

• 1811 Prince of Wales acts as Regent for George
  III who is insane
• 1812 War of 1812 (U.S vs. England), Napoleon
  invades Russia
• 1818 Mary Shelley Frankenstein
• 1819 Keats - Odes

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Everyone dies but Hegel

• 1820 George III dies, Prince Regent George IV
  ascends throne
• 1821 Napoleon dies
• 1830 George IV dies, William IV ascends throne
• 1831 Hegel lectures on the Philosophy of History
• 1837 King William IV dies, Queen Victoria
  ascends throne