Important Dates

Question 1

when did James Hargreaves invent the spinning jenny?

Answer 1

1764

Question 2

james watt perfects the steam engine

Answer 2

1765

Question 3

french revolution

Answer 3

1789

Question 4

fall of the bastille prison

Answer 4

july 14th

Question 5

blake prints songs of innocence

Answer 5

1789

Question 6

tensions between jacobin extremists and girondin moderates

Answer 6

1789-92

Question 7

French monarchy overthrown

Answer 7

1792

Question 8

louis xvi, marie antoinette killed; france declares war on britain

Answer 8

1793

Question 9

robespierre guillotined

Answer 9

1794

Question 10

blake prints songs of innocence and of experience

Answer 10

1794

Question 11

France aids netherlands and german states

Answer 11

1794

Question 12

france aids italy

Answer 12

1796

Question 13

france aids switzerland

Answer 13

1798

Question 14

Napoleon stages a coup

Answer 14

1799

Question 15

napoleon becomes first consul

Answer 15

1799

Question 16

Napoleon declares himself emperor

Answer 16

1804

Question 17

England and france stop war

Answer 17

1815

Question 18

thomas paine flees to france

Answer 18

1792

Question 19

12 london radicals arrested for treason

Answer 19

1794

Question 20

gov suspends right of habeas corpus

Answer 20

1794

Question 21

gagging acts

Answer 21

1795

Question 22

Lyrical Ballads published

Answer 22

1798

Question 23

combination act

Answer 23

1799

Question 24

corn laws

Answer 24

1815

Question 25

peterloo massacre

Answer 25

1819

Question 26

six acts

Answer 26

1819

Question 27

percy shelley writes “Sonnet: England in 1819”

Answer 27

1819

Question 28

1st reform bill passes

Answer 28

1832