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Constable to Delacroix: British Art and the French Romantics, 5 February - 11 May 2003



		Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps Austria defeated at Marengo

	1802	Peace of Amiens

	1803	War resumes with France Franco-Spanish alliance

	1804	Napoleon crowned Emperor of France

The British Institution and the Society of Painters in Watercolours both founded in London	1805	Battle of Trafalgar; French and Spanish fleets destroyed; Lord Nelson killed

David Wilkie’s Village Politicians exhibited at the Royal Academy	1806	End of the Holy Roman Empire

	1807	Napoleon defeats Russia in the Battle of Eylau British abolish the slave trade

	1808	Peninsular War begins

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Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility	1811	George, Prince of Wales, made Prince Regent Luddite uprisings in Britain

First two cantos of Byron’s Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage William Bullock opens his London museum, known as the Egyptian Hall	1812	Napoleon invades Russia, but later retreats after considerable losses

Lord Byron The Giaour Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice	1813	Napoleon defeated at the Battle of Leipzig

Lord Byron The Corsair Walter Scott Waverley	1814	Allied armies enter Paris Napoleon abdicates and is exiled to Elba Bourbon monarchy restored

French outlaw slavery in France	1815	Napoleon escapes from Elba Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated and exiled to St Helena Second Restoration

Jane Austen Emma Walter Scott The Antiquary Lord Byron’s final departure from England	1816	Shipwreck of the French frigate Medusa off the west coast of Africa First parliamentary elections in France

Mary Shelley Frankenstein Canto four of Byron’s Childe Harold	1818	End of the Allied occupation of France

Géricault exhibits The Raft of the Medusa at the Paris Salon Constable exhibits The White Horse at the RA Lord Byron Mazeppa and first two cantos of Don Juan Walter Scott Ivanhoe	1819	Peterloo massacre in Manchester


Géricault exhibits The Raft of the Medusa in the Egyptian Hall, London		Death of George III; accession of George IV
	Top	Death of George III; accession of George IV

Cantos 3 and 4 of Byron’s Don Juan Walter Scott Kenilworth	1821	Greek War of Independence begins Death of Napoleon on St Helena

Wilkie’s Chelsea Pensioners creates a sensation at the RA	1822	Greece declares independence Turks capture island of Chios and massacre 23,000 Greeks

Cantos 6 to 14 of Byron’s Don Juan Walter Scott Quentin Durward	1823	France and Spain at war Byron sails to Greece to participate in Greek Revolution

Foundation of National Gallery, London Constable exhibits The Hay Wain at the Salon des Anglais in Paris Death of Lord Byron at Missolonghi; publication of cantos 15 to 16 of Don Juan	1824	Charles X succeeds Louis XVIII as King of France

First steam-locomotive railway opens, between Stockton and Darlington Thomas Lawrence exhibits Master Lambton at the RA	1825

Delacroix exhibits Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi at the Galerie Lebrun	1826	Missolonghi falls to the Turks Economic depression in France

Delacroix’s Death of Sardanapalus shocks critics Constable exhibits The Cornfield at the Paris Salon	1827	Treaty of London declares Greek independence

	1828	Wellington becomes Prime Minister

	1829	Turks agree to withdraw from Greece


Delacroix exhibits Murder of the Bishop of Liège at the RA		Death of George IV; accession of William IV July Revolution in Paris Abdication of Charles X; Louis Philippe, Duc d’Orleans, becomes King of France Greece becomes a free kingdom
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	1832	Reform Act reforms parliamentary system and expands the electorate in Britain

Delaroche exhibits The Execution of Lady Jane Grey at the Paris Salon	1834

	1837	Death of William IV; accession of Queen Victoria

Daguerre invents photography	1838


Birth of Claude Monet		Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert Nelson’s column erected in Trafalgar Square
Birth of Claude Monet	Top

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