No event in modern history has shaped our present world as much as the French Revolution and its aftermath. The values and principles of modern life and most aspects of contemporary society were born during the revolutionary era.
Writing about Corsica, political philosopher JeanJacques Rousseau predicted, “One day this small island will astonish Europe.” The speculation came true in the person of Napoleon Bonaparte, born on August 15, 1769, in Ajaccio, Corsica.
Topic Page: Seven Years War 1756–63, worldwide war fought in Europe, North America, and India between France, Austria, Russia, Saxony, Sweden, and (after 1762) Spain on the one side and Prussia, Great Britain, and Hanover on the other.
Religion in the Romantic period was predominantly protestant, the Anglican Church of England having merged with the Church of Wales in 1536, and the Church of Ireland from 1801, though most Irish citizens were Roman Catholic and the Welsh were primarily nonconformist
This online exhibit features essays on some of the intrepid revolutionary women who lived in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when women could not join professions and married women had no rights to property or to their own children. Offers illustrated topical essays on Mary Wollstonecraft and other writers, artists, travelers, and women of the Romantic era. Includes a reading list. From the New York Public Library.
A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
A database of slave-trading voyages, including information about crew and slaves. Also includes summary statistics and secondary sources about the slave trade. Another database includes names of some 67,000 slaves transported in the Middle Passage.
Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age by 
Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850