Romantic Period:

A.D. 1825-1900

World Events:

Lutheran Confessional Revival1830 - first railroad
1831 - Copyright Act of 1831 (first to include music)
Oxford Movement (1831-1861)
1848 - Gold Rush
1849 - Bach Society founded by William Bennet
Industrial Revolution in Europe
Growth of Capitalism and Socialism
Crimean War (1854-1856)
1857 - Second Great Awakening in America
American Civil War (1861-1865)
1863 - Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
1865 - Lincoln assassinated
1865 - Slavery abolished in America
1867 - Alaska purchased
1869 - Suez Canal opens
Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
1877 - Thomas Edison invents sound recording (phonograph)
1881 - Tsar Alexander II assassinated
1881 - President Garfield shot
1881 - Panama canal built
1886 - Statue of Liberty unveiled in New York
1894 - Schola Canorium (Paris)
1898 - Spanish-American War


American Literary Figures:

Emerson
Longfellow
Poe
Hawthorne
Mark Twain


English Literary Figures:

Byron
Wordsworth
Scott
Thackeray
Dickens
Hardy
Carlyle
Coleridge
Keats


Inventions:

1840 - first electric light bulb
1876 - Bell invents the telephone
1877 - Edison invents the phonograph, patented in 1878
1883 - automobile motor patented by Daimler


Source: classicalscore.com