Philosophy
1800: Fichte - The Vocation of Man
1800: Schelling - System of Transcendental Philosophy
1807: Hegel - The Phenomenology
1818: Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Idea
1830-42: Comte - Course in Positive Philosophy
1843: Kierkegaard - Either/Or
1843: Feuerbach - Essence of Christianity
1844: Marx - Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts
1861: Mill - Utilitarianism
1877: Peirce - The Fixation of Belief
1887: Nietzsche - Beyond Good and Evil
1897: James - The Will to Believe
Classical
Music
Classic Period to 1850
Romantic Period 1800-1900
Impressionistic Period 1875-1925
Haydn (1732-1809)
Beethoven (1770-1827)
Chopin (1810-49)
Wagner (1813-83)
Brahms (1833-97)
Tchaikovsky (1840-93)
Mahler (1860-1911)
Visual Arts
Goya (1746-1828)
David (1748-1825)
Delacroix (1798-1863)
Degas (1834-1917)
Cézanne (1839-1906)
Rodin (1840-1917)
van Gogh (1853-90)
Lautrec (1864-1901)
Literature
1807: Wordsworth - Ode, Intimations of Immortality
1808: Goethe - Faust (Pt. 1)
1818: Shelley - Frankenstein
1827: Heine - Book of Songs
1842: Gogol - Dead Souls (Vol. 1)
1853: Dickens - Bleak House
1857: Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil
1857: Flaubert - Madam Bovary
1866: Swinburne - Poems & Ballads
1877: Ibsen - Pillars of Society
1879: Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamazov
1883: Maupassant - A Woman's Life
1885: Zola - Germinal
1888: Bellamy - Looking Backward
1894: Wilde - Salomé
Social/Political/Political Economy:
Theory
1803: Say - Treatise on Political Economy
1808: Fourier - The Social Destiny of Man
1813: Owen - New View of Society
1817: Ricardo - Principles of Political Economy and Taxation
1819: Sismondi - Nouveaux Principes d'economie politique
1844-77: Walras - Elements of Pure Economics
1845: Engels - Condition of the Working Class in England
1846: Proudhon - Philosophy of Poverty
1847: Considérant - Principe du socialisme
1848: Mill, J. S. - Principles of Political Economy
1848: Marx/Engels - Communist Manifesto
1859: Mill - On Liberty
1862: Spencer - First Principles
1865: Bakunin - Revolutionary Catechism
1867: Marx - Capital (Vol. 1)
1869: Mill - The Subjection of Women
1871: Jevons - The Theory of Political Economy
1883: Dilthey - Introduction to the Social Sciences
1890: Marshall - Principles of Economics
1899: Veblen - Theory of the Leisure Class
1899: Lenin - The Development of Capitalism in Russia
Science
& Technology
1800: Alessandro Volta - produces 1st electric battery
1804: Jacquard patents automatic loom
1808: John Dalton - New System of Chemical Philosophy
1809: Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck - Zoological Philosophy
1820: Hans Christian Oersted - Experiments on the effects of an electrical conflict on a magnetic needle
1821: Michael Faraday - demonstrates electrical energy can be continually converted into mechanical
energy
1828: Friedrich Wöhler - synthesizes organic compound in the lab
1830: Charles Lyell - The Principles of Geology
1831: Michael Faraday - demonstrates principle of induction
1837: Electric telegraph line set up
1838-39: Matthias Schleiden and Theodor Schwann - develop cell theory
1840: James Joule - develops concept of the conservation of energy
1847: Helmholtz - On the Conservation of Force
1856: William Ferrel - Essay on the Winds and Currents of the Ocean
1859: Charles Darwin - Origin of the Species
1866: Gregor Mendel - Experiments with Plant Hybrids
1869: Dmitri Mendeleyev - Periodic Table of the Chemical Elements
1873: Maxwell - Electricity and Magnetism
1876: Koch identifies a germ connected w/ a specific disease (anthrax)
1876: Bell patents telephone [U.S.]
1876: Otto patents 1st internal combustion engine
1879: Edison creates commercially practical incandescent lamp [U.S.]
1882: Edison sets up electricity generating plant based on dynamos [U.S.]
1885: Pasteur - rabies vaccine
1893: Mach - The Science of Mechanics
1895: Wilhelm Röntgen - discovers x-rays
1897: J. J. Thomson - discovers the electron
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie discover radium and polonium
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