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Which event marked the beginning of the English Civil War?
Restoration of the English monarchy
Which event is associated with the beginnings of Romanticism?
Publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge's Lyrical Ballads
Which event led to the abolition of slavery in the United States?
Slavery abolished in the United States
Which event is associated with the beginnings of the Victorian Age?
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Which event is associated with the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species?
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Which event is associated with the Great Exhibition in London?
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Which century is associated with the poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Smith?
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Which century is associated with the writers Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Olaudah Equiano?
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Which century is associated with the writers Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde?
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Which century is associated with the writers Hardy, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, and Pinter?
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Which event is associated with the launch of the Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Trade in Slaves?
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Which event is associated with the posthumous publication of Donne's Poems and Herbert's The Temple?
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Which event is associated with the reign of Queen Victoria?
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Which event is associated with the publication of Hardy, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, and Pinter?
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Which century is associated with the publication of the King James Bible?
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Which event is associated with the publication of the King James Bible?
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Which century is associated with the writers Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Olaudah Equiano?
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Which event is associated with the posthumous publication of Donne's Poems and Herbert's The Temple?
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Which event marked the beginning of the English Civil War?
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Which century is associated with the poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Smith?
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Which event is associated with the publication of the Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams?
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Which event is associated with the reign of Queen Victoria?
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Which century is associated with the writers Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Olaudah Equiano?
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Study Notes
Events and Eras
- The English Civil War began with the event of the Battle of Edgehill in 1642.
- The abolition of slavery in the United States was led by the event of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Literary Eras
17th Century
- Associated with the writers Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, and Olaudah Equiano.
19th Century
- Associated with the poets Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Smith (Romanticism).
- Associated with the writers Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Charles Dickens, and Oscar Wilde (Victorian Age).
- Marked the beginning of the Victorian Age with the reign of Queen Victoria in 1837.
- Saw the publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of the Species in 1859.
- Hosted the Great Exhibition in London in 1851.
20th Century
- Associated with the writers Hardy, Yeats, Auden, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, and Pinter.
Publications
- The King James Bible was published in 1611.
- John Donne's Poems and George Herbert's The Temple were published posthumously in 1633.
- Sigmund Freud's Interpretation of Dreams was published in 1900.
Abolitionism
- The Society for Effecting the Abolition of the Slave Trade was launched in 1787.
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