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Date Ibsen European culture Other
1780
1781
Immanuel
Kant,Critique of Pure
Reason . Jean-
Jacques
Rousseau,Confession
s . J. C. Friedrich
Schiller,The Robbers
1782
1783
1784
1785
1786
1787
1788
1789
Start of the
French
Revolution. The
tremendous
changes going on
in France
influenced the
artists of the
Romantic
Movement.
William Blake's
Songs of
Innocence is
published
1790
1791 :
1792
Mary Wollstonecraft,A
Vindication of the
Rights of Woma
1793
1794
Songs of
Experience by
William Blake is
published.
1795
1796
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1797
Mary Wollstonecraft
Godwin Mary Shelley)
is born in England.
Mary
Wollstonecraft
dies
complications of
childbirth
1798
Lyrical
Ballads written by
Samuel Coleridge and
William Wordsworth is
published. This
collection reflects
many of the themes
valued by the writers
of the Romantic
Movement.
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
1805
first version of The
novel Frankenstein by
Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley is completed
1806
1807
In Phenomenology of
Spirit Friedrich Hegel
interprets history as
the advance of the
human mind, often
through thesis,
antithesis and
synthesis
Abolition of the
slave trade
1808
Ludwig van
Beethoven,Symp
honies 5 and 6
1809
1810
1811
1812
1813
1814
Kingdopm of
Norway ceded to
Sweden
1815
1816
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1817
1818
The
novel Frankenstein by
Mary Wollstonecraft
Shelley is published.
The novel is an
example of a Gothic
work that was created
out of the elements of
Romanticism.
1819
1820
1821
1822
1823
1824
German composer
Ludwig van
Beethoven, seen as
bridging the transition
between Classical and
Romantic music,
completes his Ninth
1825
1826
1827
1828
Ibsen born in Skien,
Norway
1829
1830
1831
Russian poet
Alexander Pushkin
publishes his play
Boris Godunov,
written in blank verse,
1832
1833
1834
father experienced
bankruptcy; compelled to
sell comfortable house in
the city and move to small
summer home in Venstop
1835
1836
1837
1838
1839
1840
1841
1842
In The World as Will and
Idea Schopenhauer
develops the bleakest
possible view of the effects
of the human will
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1843
1844
1845
left school to become
an apprentice to an
apothecary in Grimstad
Poet and fiction
writer Edgar Allan
Poe publishes
The Raven and
Other Poems
1846
1847
Writing under the
pseudonym Ellis Bell,
Emily Brontë
publishes Wuthering
Heights in 1847, a
year before her death.
Charlotte Bronte
publishes Jane Eyre
under the pseudonym
Currer Bell
1848
fathered a son with a
servant girl; had little
contact with the boy, as he
soon moved to Kristiania
(Oslo)
Karl Marx: Communist
Maifesto
1849
1850
published first play,
Catiline; not performed.
1851
The police acts against the
thranitter agency Arbeider-
Foreningens Blad , seizes
manuscripts and arrests
Thrane and editor
Abildgaard . Ibsen has
written for the magazine
and also taught at a
Sunday school for workers,
but manuscripts of him are
not found, and Ibsen
avoids police and
judiciary. Moved to Bergen
to work as playwright-in-
residence at the Norwegian
Theater1852
1853
Holman Hunt paints
'the awakening
conscience'.
1854
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1855
Sets Shakespeare's As
You Like It in Sille Beyer's
translation under the title
Livet i Skoven at Det
norske Theater.
Lectures on Shakespeare's
influence on Nordic art in
the "Association of 22
December". Manuscript or
record is not preserved.
1856
1857
1858
returned to Kristiania
to become creative director
at the theater, married
Suzannah Thoresen
1859
son Sigurd was born
Charles Darwin
publishes Origin of
Species
1860
Women are given permission
to work as teachers in rural,
primary schools. In 1869 they
were given the same right in
city schools.
1861
1862
1863
1864
disillusioned with
Norway, moved to Sorrento
in Italy
1865
Tristan und Isolde
(Wagner) premiered:
Munich
1866
published
acclaimed play, Brand
1867
published
acclaimed play, Peer Gynt
1868
moved to Dresden,
Germany
1869
Writing The Young
Women's Federation,
published The League of
Youth
John Stuart Mill (1806 -
1873) - The
Subjection of Women
1870
Dostoevsky living
alongside Ibsen in
Dresden
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1871
Otto von Bismarck
achieves
unification of
Germany under
leadership of
Prussia; Dresden
was the seat of
the second-party
day in the Social
Democratic
German Labour
Party (SDAP)
1872
Ibsen's name reaches
England through Edmund
Gosses's review of Digte ,
"Ibsen's New Poems" in
The Spectator , which also
contains a short
presentation of the poet.
1873
published Emperor
and Galilean
1874
Invites Edvard Grieg to
compose the music for
Peer Gynt.
1875
1876
First Bayreuth festival,
first performance of
Wagner's Ring Cycle
1877
published Pillars of
Society, Informs hegel tha
the is wrtiting a play about
'contemporary life'
1878
1879
A Doll's House published
First German
translation of A Doll's
House : Nora oder
Ein Puppenheim:
Schauspiel in drei
Aufzügen .
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1880
A Doll's House has a
German premiere at
Stadttheater in
Flensburg. Here and at
theaters in Hamburg,
Dresden, Hannover and
Berlin, Ibsen's alternative
end is being used.
1881 published Ghosts
1882
published An Enemy
of the People Women are
given the right to
attain “artium” (university
entrance) examination, and
Cecilie
Thoresen is the first woman
student
to do so.
1883
In Thus Spake
Zarathustra Friedrich
Wilhelm Nietzsche
envisages
the Übermensch ('sup
erman') enhancing
human existence
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1884
published The Wild
Duck. Women are given
the right to
study and achieve the final
examination at all faculties
at the University. After
completing the
examination,
women could open practice
as medical doctors and
dentists, but in other
respects they were not
given access to work in
public offices, such as law,
philosophy and within other
fields for which they were
qualified. The Norwegian
Association for Women’s
Rights is founded
Establishment of
Norsk
kvinnesaksforenin
g (The Norwegian
Women s
Liberation
Organisation
Full
parliamen
tarianism
under
Liberal
administr
ation
1885
1886
published
Rosmersholm
1887
1888
published The Lady
from the Sea
1889
1890
published Hedda
Gabler
1891
returned to Norway
after several decades spent
mainly in Italy and
Germany
George Bernard Shaw
publishes 'the
quintessence of
Ibsenism
1892
1893 Munch: The Scream
1894
1895
1896
1897
1898 Berthold Brecht born
1899
Freud: 'interpretation
of dreams'
1900
1901
weakened by series of
strokes. Women are given
a limited right to vote, and
can be elected in the
municipalities’ elections
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1902
1903
1904
1905
Norway gains
independence fro
Sweden
1906
died in Kristiania,
Norway
1907
1908
1909
1910
1911
1912
1913
1914
First World War
starts
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