Important Dates Flashcards
1
Q
Gray published ‘Elegy Written in a County Churchyard’
A
1751
2
Q
James Watt perfected the steam engine
A
1765
3
Q
The French Revolution begins
A
1789
4
Q
Wordsworth takes walking tour through France
A
1791
5
Q
Blake publishes Songs of Innocence
A
1789
6
Q
the French King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, were guillotined
A
1793
7
Q
Blake publishes ‘Songs of Innocence and of Experience’
A
1794
8
Q
Robiespierre was guillotined
A
1794
9
Q
British parliament suspends the right of habeas corpus
A
1794
10
Q
British parliament passed the Gagging Acts
A
1795
11
Q
1st edition of Lyrical Ballads is published
A
1798
12
Q
British Parliament passed the Combination Act
A
1799
13
Q
the 2nd version of Lyrical Ballads w/preface is published
A
1800
14
Q
Johnson published ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’
A
1749
