What do you understand by Romanticism? Write the important dates of events in Europe?
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Answer:
a literary, artistic, and philosophical movement originating in the 18th century, characterized chiefly by a reaction against neoclassicism and an emphasis on the imagination and emotions, and marked especially in English literature by sensibility and the use of autobiographical material, an exaltation of the primitive and the common man, an appreciation of external nature, an interest in the remote, a predilection for melancholy, and the use in poetry of older verse forms
Explanation:
1700 - 1900
1750 - 1850 English Industrial Revolution began
1789 French revolution stormed the Bastille
1792 - 1821 Napoleon conquered much of Europe for the French
1802 Ludwig van Beethoven performed Moonlight Sonata
1804 Napolean proclaimed Emperor of France
1845 - 1849 Irish potato famine killed approximately 1 million Irish
1848 Karl Marx argued for socialism, revolutions occurred in Europe; issued Communist Manifesto
1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species
1860 - 1869 Italy and Germany unified into modern countries
1900 - 2000
1914 - 1918 World War I occurred throughout Europe
1930's Great Depression weakened European economies
1933 Adolf Hitler became Chancellor Germany
1939 Winston Churchill became prime minister of Britain
1939 - 1945 World War II occurred throughout the world. Hitler created concentration camps for Jews. Russia expanded their country. Mussolini overthrown in Italy.
1944 D-Day landing in Normandy by allies
1945 Hitler committed suicide; Germany surrendered
1946 - 1990 Cold War took place between USSR and the United States
1957 USSR launched Sputnik into space
1978 World's first successful &test-tube& baby born in Great Britain
1989 Poland overthrew communism. Tim Berners-Lee of Great Britain, created the World Wide Web. Berlin Wall demolished
1991 USSR collapsed, Cold War ended
1992 Maasricht treaty created European Union
1995 CERN in Switzerland created antihydrogen atoms
2002 The European Union released the Euro as a new form of currency
2003 Ten thousand people died in heat wave in France
2005 French protestors rioted in the streets. Pope John Paul II died. Bomb attack on three of London's underground trains killed 56, injured over 700
2007 - 2009 Russia attacked Georgia
2008 Former Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic arrested on charges of genocide
2010 Polish President, Lech Kaczynski and 96 other passengers and crew, killed in airplane crash
2011 Greeks rioted in the streets over government and economic troubles
Answer:
Romanticism was a European cultural movement aimed at developing national unity by creating a sense of shared heritage and common history. The Romantic artists' emphasis on emotions, intuition and mystical feelings gave shape and expression to nationalist sentiments. The strength of art in promoting nationalism is well exemplified in the role played by European poets and artists in mobilising public opinion to support the Greeks in their struggle to establish their national identity.