1773 Anna Barbauld begins publishing poetry.
1775 Mary Robinson publishes her first volume of poetry.
1784 Charlotte Smith publishes Elegiac Sonnets, and Other Essays.
1789 William Blake publishes the Songs of Innocence and Experience.
1792 Mary Wollstonecraft publishes her essay The Vindication on the Rights of Woman.
1797 Samuel Taylor Coleridge writes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
1798 Romanticism begins. Wordsworth and Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads.
1800 The Act of Union combined England and Ireland into the United Kingdom.
May 1804 Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France.
June 1812 The War of 1812 begins between Britain and the United States.
1815 Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo.
1819 John Keats writes "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "Ode on Melancholy," and "Ode to a Nightingale."
1820 Percy Bysshe Shelley writes Ode to the West Wind.
1837 Romanticism ends.