World Events
- Lutheran Confessional Revival
- 1830 - first railroad
- 1831 - Copyright Act of 1831 (first to include music)
- Oxford Movement (1831-1861)
- 1848 - Gold Rush
- 1849 - Bach Society founded by William Bennet
- Industrial Revolution in Europe
- Growth of Capitalism and Socialism
- Crimean War (1854-1856)
- 1857 - Second Great Awakening in America
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- 1863 - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
- 1865 - Lincoln assassinated
- 1865 - Slavery abolished in America
- 1867 - Alaska purchased
- 1869 - Suez Canal opens
- Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
- 1877 - Thomas Edison invents sound recording (phonograph)
- 1881 - Tsar Alexander II assassinated
- 1881 - President Garfield shot
- 1881 - Panama canal built
- 1886 - Statue of Liberty unveiled in New York
- 1894 - Schola Canorium (Paris)
- 1898 - Spanish-American War
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American Literary Figures
- Emerson
- Longfellow
- Poe
- Hawthorne
- Mark Twain
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English Literary Figures
- Byron
- Wordsworth
- Scott
- Thackeray
- Dickens
- Hardy
- Carlyle
- Coleridge
- Keats
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French Literary Figures
- Lamartine
- Musset
- Hugo
- Flaubert
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German Literary Figures
- Schiller
- Goethe
- Richter
- Heine
- Novalis
- Tieck
- E.T.A. Hoffman
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Artists
- Manet
- Degas
- Monet
- Renoir
- Pissaro
- Rodin
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French Symbolist Poets
- Verlaine
- Mallarmé
- Rimbaud
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Philosophers
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Hegel
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Schopenhauer
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Nietzche
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Inventions
- 1840 - first electric light bulb
- 1876 - Bell invents the telephone
- 1877 - Edison invents the phonograph, patented in 1878
- 1883 - automobile motor patented by Daimler
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Romantic
Music
Musical
Characteristics | Genre and Forms
| Theorists, Treatises and Collections
Composers
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