1700-1750
ERA
WORLD HISTORY
1715–1774: King Louis XV of France rules; consolidates
absolute power of the monarchy
1737: First public exhibition of the annual Salon in Paris
1750-1800
1759: French and Indian Wars in North America
1775–1783: American Revolution, Declaration of
Independance, 1776
1789: French Revolution begins
1792: Storming of Bastille prison and Paris riot
1793: French monarchy abolished
1793: Louvre palace becomes public art museum
1793–1795: Reign of Terror in France
1796–1797: Napoleon Bonaparte; conquers most of Italy
and Egypt; becomes diplomat and controls France
1700–1770 Europe: Rococo
1770–1810 Neoclassicism
(1600)–1776 America: Colonial
1800-1850
c. 1800: Traditional forms of African art continue through
Western colonization
1803: Louisiana Purchase
1803–1815: Napoleonic Wars; Napoleon crowned Emperor
of France,1804
1812: War of 1812; European allies against Napoleon; draws
United States into conflict with Britian, 1814
1815: Battle at Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Louis XVIII
1823: Monroe Doctrine
1842: Oregon Trail opens western lands of North America
1848: Discovery of gold in American West encourages
westward expansion
1810–1840 Romanticism
TMA OBJECTS
France, Watteau,
La Conversazione,
(1712–1715)
RELIGION
Italy, Canaletto, View of the
Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice
(late 1730s)
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY LITERATURE
1900-1920
c. 1850: Japanese woodblock prints influence European
1912: Republic of China founded
painters
1913: Armory Show introduces Avant-garde to U.S
1851: First World’s Fair at the Crystal Palace, London
• Photography emerges as an important art form
1854: Commodore Matthew Perry signs treaty opening
Japan to foreign trade
• Harlem Renaissance brings African-American artists into
1861–1865: American Civil War; Emancipation Proclaimation
the spotlight
1863: First exhibition at the Salon de Refusés in Paris
1914-18: World War I
1875–1884: Auguste Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, New York
1876: Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana
1890: Battle of Wounded Knee
1840–1875 Realism
1875–1900 Impressionism
1776–1900 America: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism
1900–1925 Cubism
1900–1950 America: Modernism
Japan/China, Handwarmer
(a. 1880)
France, Gros. Napoleon
on the Battlefield of Eylau
(1807)
America, John Simbert, Mrs.
Nathaniel Cunningham, (1730)
1850-1900
America, Gifford, The
Wilderness (1860)
Japan, Netsukes. (late 18th c.)
France, Fragonard,
Blind-Man’s Buff
(1750–1752)
America, Bellows, The Bridge,
African, Crest Helmet. (early 20th c.)
Blackwells Island. (1909)
Netherlands, Mondrian, Composition with Red,
Blue, Yellow, Black, and Gray (1922)
England, Turner. Campo Santo,Venice.
Dutch, van Gogh, Wheat Fields with
(1842)
Reaper (1890)
France, David, The
Oath of the Horatii
(1786)
America,
Cropsey, Young
Lady with Bird
and Dog (1767)
France, Pissaro,
Still Life (1867)
American, Cole. Architect’s Dream
(1840)
America, Sargent,
Princess Demidoff
(1895–1896)
Spain, Picasso, Woman in a Black Hat. (1909)
c. 1725: John Wesley founds the Methodist
branch of Protestantism in England
1712–1778: Rousseau; French philosopher
1756–1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
1713–1784: Denis Diderot
1774: Johann von Goethe publishes The Sorrows of
1726: Jonathan Swift; Irish author, Gulliver’s Travels Young Werther in Germany
1800s: English Romantic authors: Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley,
Keats, Thackeray, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, Eliot, Kipling
1819–1837: Grimm brothers; German folktales
1830–1886: Emily Dickenson; American poet
1819–1837: Edgar Allen Poe publishes short stories
1842: Balzac completes The Human Comedy
1848: Karl Marx writes The Communist Manefesto
c.1850: Russian literature: Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov
1851: Melville’s Moby Dick, Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin,
Flaubert’s Madame Bovary
1826: Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables
1875–1961: Carl Jung; swiss psychologist
1881: Henry James’ Portrait of a Lady
1884: Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1897: Bram Stoker’s Dracula
1900: L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
1902: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
1903: Jack London, Call of the Wild
1905: Edith Wharton, Ethan Frome
1914: Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art
c. 1700: Industrial revolution introduces iron as a
building material
1705: Edmund Halley; english astronomer
1706–1790: Benjamin Franklin; invents bifocals
1717: Gabriel Farenheit proposes temperature
gradation system in Holland
1745: Discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneaum
1804–1806: Lewis and Clark expedition
1831: Darwin visits Galapagos Islands
1839: First forms of photography
1844: Samuel Morse invents code and telegraph
1846: Sewing machine invented
1859: Darwin publishes The Origin of Species
1864: Louis Pasteur’s germ theory
1869: American transcontinental railroad
completed; Suez Canal opens
1876: Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone
1877–1894: Thomas Edison invents phonograph, incandescent bulb and motion pictures
c.1890: Reinforced conrete begins to be used as a primary
building material
1892–1895: Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis
1903: First silent motion picture
1903:Wright Brothers flight
1905:Albert Einstein formulates the Theory of Relativity
1906: San Francisco earthquake
1908: First Ford Model-T
1914: Panama Canal opened
1920: The first transatlantic two-way radio broadcast is made
1753: Carl Linnaeus, Swedish botanist, writes
Species Plantarum, the modern classification
system for plants
1792: Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin
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