Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Notable Events, People and Literature: 1800 to 1825.

Notable Events and People: 1800 - 1825

Jefferson President/ Washington, D.C./ Electric storage battery/ Infrared rays/ Library of Congress/ Bonaparte/ Chief Justice John Marshall/ First steam vehicle/ Metric system in Europe/ Johnny Appleseed/ West Point/ Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum/ Louisana Purchase/ Marbury vs. Madison/ Britain vs. France/ Table of atomic weights/ Morphine/ Audubon/ Code Napoleon/ Hamilton vs. Burr/ Lewis and Clark Expedition/ First steam locomotive/ Lord Nelson/ Webster's Dictionary/ First commercially successful steamboat/ Madison President/ First U.S. parochial school/ Luddites vs. technology--and lost jobs/ Napoleon's retreat from Moscow/ War of 1812/ Napoleon abdicates/ Washington burned/ Star Spangled Banner/ Napoleon at St. Helena/ Switzerland/ Erie Canal/ Monroe President/ Indian wars/ Tin can/ Unitarianism/ University of Virginia/ Missouri Compromise/ Simon Bolivar/ Electric motor/ Poker/ Monroe Doctrine.


Notable Literary Works: 1800 - 1825
Castle Rackrent. Maria Edgeworth. 1800.
Mary Stuart. Friedrich Schiller. 1800.
The Maid of Orleans. Friedrich Schiller. 1801.
Atala. Francois Chateaubriand. 1801.
Delphine. Mme. de Stael. 1802.
The Genius of Christianity. Francois Chateaubriand. 1802.
Rene. Francois Chateaubriand. 1802.
Oberman. Etienne Senancour. 1804.
Wilhelm Tell. Friedrich Schiller. 1804.
"Milton." William Blake. 1804.
"Jerusalem." William Blake. 1804.
"The Lay of the Last Minstrel." Sir Walter Scott. 1805.
"Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood." William Wordsworth. 1807.
"The Daffodils." William Wordsworth. 1807.
The Columbiad. Joel Barlow. 1807.
"Nuns Fret Not at Their Convent's Narrow Room." William Wordsworth. 1807.
Corinne, or Italy. Mme. de Stael.1807.
Salmagundi; or, the Whim-Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff, Esq. and Others. Washington Irving. 1807/08.
Penthesilea. Henrich von Kleist. 1808.
Michael Koblhaas. Heinrich von Kleist. 1808.
"Marmion, A Tale of Flodden Field." Sir Walter Scott. 1808.
Faust, Parts I and II. Goethe. 1808/32.
The Elective Affinities. Goethe. 1809.
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Lord Byron. 1809.
"Lord Ullin's Daugher." Thomas Campbell. 1809.
Knickerbocker History of New York. Washington Irving. 1809.
"The Lady of the Lake." Sir Walter Scott. 1810.
Das Katchen von Heilbronn. Heinrich von Kleist. 1810.
Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen. 1811.
"Bethgelert or the Grave of the Greyhound." William Robert Spencer. 1811.
"Undine." Friedrich von Fouque. 1811.
Poetry and Truth. Goethe. 1811/33.
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Lord Byron. 1812.
The Swiss Family Robinson. JR Wyss. 1813.
Pride and Prejudice. Jane Austen. 1813.
"Star Spangled Banner." Francis Scott Key. 1814.
"Peter Schlemihl's Wundersame Geschicte." Adelbert von Chamisso. 1814.
"The Corsair." Lord Byron. 1814.
Waverly. Sir Walter Scott. 1814.
The Excursion. William Wordsworth. 1814.
Mansfield Park. Jane Austen. 1814.
"To a Waterfowl." William Cullen Bryant. 1815.
Adolphe. Benjamin Constant de Rebecque. 1815.
Guy Mannering. Sir Walter Scott. 1815.
"The Destruction of Sennacherib." Lord Byron. 1815.
Headlong Hall. Thomas Love Peacock. 1816.
"The Prisoner of Chillon." Lord Byron. 1816.
Emma. Jane Austen. 1816.
The Itching Parrot. Jose Fernandez de Lizardi. 1816.
The Antiquary. Sir Walter Scott. 1816.
Lalla Rookh. Thomas Moore. 1817.
"Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood." William Cullen Bryant. 1817.
Manfred. Lord Byron. 1817.
Thanatopsis. William Cullen Bryant. 1817.
Northanger Abbey. Jane Austen. 1818.
Persuasion. Jane Austen. 1818.
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. Mary Wollstaonecraft Shelley. 1818.
Beppo. Lord Byron. 1818.
"Ozymandias." Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1818.
The Heart of Midlothian. Sir Walter Scott. 1818.
Nightmare Abbey. Thomas Love Peacock. 1818.
The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Washington Irving. 1819. Includes "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."
"Ode to a Nightingale." John Keats. 1819.
Bride of Lammermoor. Sir Walter Scott. 1819.
"The Eve of St. Agnes." John Keats. 1819.
"Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats. 1819.
Ivanhoe. Sir Walter Scott. 1819.
"La Belle Dame sans Merci." John Keats. 1819.
Don Juan. Lord Byron. 1819/24.
Prometheus Unbound. Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1820.
"Isabella, or the Pot of Basil." John Keats. 1820.
"The Cloud." Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1820.
Melmoth the Wanderer. Charles Maturin. 1820.
"The Sensitive Plant." Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1820.
"Ode to the West Wind." Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1820.
Friedrich von Homburg. Heinrich von Kleist. 1821.
"Epipsychidion." Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1821.
"Adonais." Percy Bysshe Shelley. 1821.
Kenilworth. Sir Walter Scott. 1821.
Woe from Wit. Aleksandr Gribotedov. 1822.
Peveril of the Peak. Sir Walter Scott. 1822.
Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists. Washington Irving. 1822.
Confessions of an English Opium Eater. Thomas DeQuincey. 1822.
"Dream Children: A Reverie." Charles Lamb. 1822.
The Pioneers, or The Source of the Susquehanna. James F. copper. 1823.
Quentin Durward. Sir Walter Scott. 1823.
"A Visit from St. Nicholas." Clement Clarke Moore. 1823.
"A Dissertation on Roast Pig." Charles Lamb. 1823/33.
The Leatherstocking Tales James F. Cooper. 1823/41.
The Adventures of Hajii Baba of Ispahan. James Morier. 1824.
The Talisman. Sir Walter Scott. 1825.
Canto A Bolivar: La Victoria de Junin. Jose Joaquin Olmeda. 1825.
Boris Godunov. Aleksandr Pushkin. 1825.