THE ROMANTIC AGE (1760-1837)

1760-1820

1770 THE BOSTON MASSACRE

BRITAIN VS COLONISTS

1773 THE BOSTON TEA PARTY

PROTEST BY DEMONSTRATORS

for taxation

1775 AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR

1776 THE AMERICAN DEMONSTRATION OF INDIPENDENCE

4 JULY

1783 TREATY OF VERSAILLES

BRITAIN ACCEPTS THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

1789 BRITAIN AND FRENCH REVOLUTION

by philosophers (Voltaire, Rousseau)

new values

equality

fraternity

liberty

1793 WAR BETWEEN BRITAIN AND FRANCE

PRIME MINISTER WILLIAM PITT

anti-Revolutionary Coalition

Austria

Prussia

1804 NAPOLEON BONAPARTE=EMPEROR OF FRANCE

1805 THE BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR

1812 NAPOLEONIC WARS

15 years

FRENCH INVASION OF PRUSSIA

NAPOLEON'S DECLINE

1815 THE BATTLE OF WATERLOO

THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA

THE OLD ORDER IN EUROPE

1819 THE PETERLOO MASSACRE

at St Peter's Fiields in Manchester

for the suspention of Habeas Corpus

1820-1830

a patron of art and architecture

British Museum Library

Royal Pavillon

1829 THE CATHOLIC EMANCIPATION

Catholics and Dissenter can access to public offices

1830-1837

1832 THE REFORM ACT

vote for all male members of middle-class

1833

THE SLAVERY ABOLITION ACT

freedom to all slaves in the British Empire

THE FACTORY ACT

for children working in the factories

more rights

1834 THE AMENDEMENT OF THE POOR LAW

not obligation to offer financial help to poor

workhouse