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| 1810 |
Robert Schumann is born, as is composer Fryderyk Chopin. |
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1811 |
Hungarian composer Franz Liszt and writers Théophile Gautier and W.M. Thackery are born. |
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| 1812 |
English poet Robert Browning and English novelist Charles Dickens are born.
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| 1813 |
The two giants of late-Romantic opera, Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner, are born. |
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| 1818 |
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley publishes Frankenstein. |
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| 1820 |
Florence Nightingale and Susan B. Anthony, women who achieved great success without using the name "George," are born. |
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| 1821 |
French poet Charles Baudelaire and Russian novelist Feodor Dostoyevsky are born. |
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| 1824 |
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (his last) premieres, as does Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 1. |
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| 1825 |
Johann Strauss II ("the Waltz King") is born. |
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| 1827 |
Beethoven dies in Vienna. |
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| 1828 |
Schumann begins piano studies with Friedrich Wieck; Schubert finishes his ninth symphony and dies. |
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| 1829 |
Andrew Jackson becomes the seventh president of the United States. |
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| 1830 |
Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique premieres. |
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| 1831 |
Schumann publishes his Opus 1, the "Abegg" variations for piano, and Opus 2, "Papillons." |
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| 1832 |
Schumann begins to experience problems with his right hand, ending his hopes of a concert career. |
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| 1833 |
Johannes Brahms is born in Hamburg.
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| 1834 |
Schumann composes Carnaval and establishes the Neue Zeitschrift für Musik.
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| 1835 |
American writer Samuel L. Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain is born in Missouri.
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| 1837 |
Schumann asks Friedrich Wieck for the hand of his daughter, Clara;
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| 1838 |
Schumann composes his Kinderszenen ("Scenes from Childhood").
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| 1839 |
French artist Paul Cézanne is born. The first bicycle is built in Scotland. |
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| 1840 |
Robert and Clara marry; Robert composes nearly 150 songs, including the Dichterliebe cycle. |
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| 1841 |
Mendelssohn conducts the premiere of Schumann's Symphony No. l ("Spring") in Leipzig. |
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| 1843 |
The world's first night club opens in Paris. |
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| 1845 |
Schumann finishes his Piano Concerto in A Minor; Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto.
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| 1847 |
American inventors Thomas Alva Edison and Alexander Graham Bell are born.
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| 1848 |
Liszt composes the world's first "symphonic poem," a term he coined.
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| 1849 |
Chopin dies in Paris at the age of 39. Charles Dickens publishes David Copperfield. |
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| 1851 |
Schumann finishes the final revision of his Symphony No. 4; Verdi's Rigoletto premieres in Venice. |
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| 1854 |
Schumann attempts suicide and is confined in an asylum. Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden. |
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| 1856 |
Robert Schumann dies in a private asylum near Bonn. George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde are born. |
