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French Revolution
The Romantic Period and its literary ideals were imbued with a revolutionary spirit. Stimulated by these powerful ideas about man and his rights, individuality flourished. Revolutionary ideals awakened human intellect and passion. So, The French Revolution itself was a prime source of inspiration for the first generation of Romantic poets: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake. -
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Bourgeois Revolutions
The interests of the bourgeoisie were expressed in the political and ideological superstructure by the ideas of the Enlightenment, which spoke of freedom and rights in opposition to absolutism and the class-based society; and of the free market in opposition to the restrictions of the feudal mode of production. -
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Napoleonic Wars
The Napoleonic Wars were a series of armed conflicts fought within the First French Empire under the command of Emperor Napoleon I Bonaparte. From a Romantic perspective, Romantic authors were deeply disturbed by the devastating consequences of war. Poets such as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey produced both pro- and anti-war writings that struggled to reconcile the destructive loss of life with the conservative values of militarism and hero worship. -
End of Napoleonic Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte was finally defeated by the British General Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo, in Belgium, in June 1815, and abdicated in favor of his son, Franz Charles Joseph Bonaparte, proclaiming him Napoleon II. -
Reform Law
The Reform Act of 1832 was an Act of Parliament that introduced a wide range of changes to the electoral system in England and Wales. According to the preamble, the Act was designed to "take effectual measures for correcting various abuses which have long subsisted in regard to the Election of Members serving in the House of Commons of Parliament." -
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The Restoration
General Pavía's entry into Congress on January 3, 1874, led to the dissolution of the Cortes. In December of that same year, Alfonso XII published the Sandhurst Manifesto, and on the 29th of that same month, General Martínez Campos proclaimed the restoration of the Monarchy.The most significant event of the Restoration was the loss in 1898 of Cuba and the Philippines, the last possessions in the Americas and Asia, following a war with the United States that shook Spanish society. -
Europe Map Reorganization
The Austro-Hungarian Empire disappeared as a political entity. The new states of Austria and Hungary were formed within it, greatly diminished in their historical borders, as the former lost Trentino and Istria, which it ceded to Italy, and Slovenia, which became part of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Other Austrian losses were Bohemia and Galicia. -
End of Transatlantic Slave Criticism
The Atlantic slave trade was one of the largest forced migration movements in history. The major maritime powers of the time—the Portuguese, Dutch, French, and English—viested over the slave trade. This lasted 400 years, until 1994, such transfers were banned, but last year, an illegal transfer of Slavs in Jamaica was discovered, which had consequences.