Eng 292 Final

Front 1

1789

Back 1

Fall of the Bastille

Front 2

1798

Back 2

Lyrical Ballads (Wordsworth & Coleridge)

Front 3

1807

Back 3

Abolition of Slave Trade

Front 4

1815

Back 4

Napoleon defeated at Waterloo

Front 5

1819

Back 5

"Peterloo Massacre"

Front 6

1830

Back 6

Opening of Liverpool & Manchester Railway

Front 7

1832

Back 7

First Reform Bill

Front 8

1833

Back 8

Slavery Abolished

Front 9

1837

Back 9

Victoria Queen

Front 10

1845-46

Back 10

Irish Potato Famine

Front 11

1846

Back 11

Repeal of Corn Laws

Front 12

1850

Back 12

Tennyson succeeds Wordsworth as Poet Laureate

Front 13

1851

Back 13

Great Exhibition

Front 14

1857

Back 14

Indian Mutiny

Front 15

1859

Back 15

Origin of Species

Front 16

1861

Back 16

Death of Prince Albert

Front 17

1899-1902

Back 17

Boer War

Front 18

1901

Back 18

Death of Victoria, Succession of Edward VII

Front 19

1901-10

Back 19

Edwardian Period

Front 20

1810-1914

Back 20

Georgian Period

Front 21

1914-1939

Back 21

Modernist Period

Front 22

1902

Back 22

Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Front 23

1910-36

Back 23

Reign of George V

Front 24

1914-18

Back 24

WWI

Front 25

1914

Back 25

Joyce, Dubliners

Front 26

1916

Back 26

Easter Rising;

Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Front 27

1917

Back 27

Eliot, Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock

Front 28

1920

Back 28

Treaty of Versailles;

League of Nations formed

Front 29

1921

Back 29

Irish Free State formed

Front 30

1922

Back 30

Partition of Ireland;

Joyce, "Ulysses"

Eliot, "The Waste Land"

Front 31

1924

Back 31

Forster, "A Passage to India"

Front 32

1925

Back 32

Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway"

Front 33

1927

Back 33

Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"

Front 34

1929

Back 34

Stock Market Crash,

Great Depression Begins

Front 35

1939

Back 35

Beginning of WWII,

End of Modern Period

Front 36

1939-45

Back 36

WWII

Front 37

1946

Back 37

Thomas, "Deaths & Entrances"

Front 38

1947

Back 38

Independence of India

Front 39

1950

Back 39

Apartheid Laws Passed in South Africa

Front 40

1955

Back 40

Beckett, "Waiting for Godot"

Front 41

1958

Back 41

Achebe, "Things Fall Apart"

Front 42

1961

Back 42

Naipaul, "A House for Mr. Biswas"

Front 43

1966

Back 43

Stoppard, "Rosencrantz & Gildenstern Are Dead"

Front 44

1972

Back 44

Britain joins European Common Market;

Heaney, "North"

Front 45

1979

Back 45

Margaret Thatcher Prime Minister

Front 46

1981

Back 46

Rushdie, "Midnight's Children"

Front 47

1991

Back 47

Walcott, "Omeros"

Front 48

1994

Back 48

Democracy in South Africa

Front 49

1997

Back 49

Tony Blair Prime Minister