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| Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann (1776 - 1822)
| VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : A Young Girl Reading | PH : | Treaty of Copenhagen between Russia and Denmark | RP : | John Cartwright: Take your Choice, on parliamentary reform | ED : | Edward Gibbon: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire | RP : | Richard Price:Observations on Civil Liberty and the Justice and Policy of the War with America | RP : | Adam Smith: An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations | M : | Charles Burney: History of Music | M : | Concerts of Ancient Music, London | DL : | U.S. Congress institutes a national lottery | DL : | Military ski competitions in Norway | VA : | Corrado Giaquinto dies | M : | Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann born 24 January | VA : | John Constable born 11 June | PH : | 4 July - Second Continental Congress adopts the Declaration of Independence    GO ! |
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| | RP : | Christianity introduced in Korea | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Armide
| VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The Paternal Curse | LT : | Court and National Theatre, Mannheim, founded | RP : | Joseph Priestley: Disquisition Relating to Matter and Spirit | ST : | American engineer David Bushnell invents torpedo | ST : | Lavoisier proves that air consists mainly of oxygen and nitrogen | DL : | Stars and Stripes adopted as Continental Congress flag | M : | Heinrich Heine born 13 December |
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| | PH : | War of Bavarian Succession | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Lessons for Children of Two to Three Years Old and Lessons for Children of Three Years Old | M : | Christoph Willibald Gluck : Opera, Iphigénie en Tauride
| VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : Portrait of Count Stroganov as a Child | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : The Wicked Son Punished | VA : | Benjamin West : Romeo and Juliet | PH : | American colonies sign treaties with France and Holland    GO ! | RP : | G.L.L. Buffon: Epoques de la Nature | RP : | J.A. Deluc: Lettres physiques et morals sur les montagnes | M : | La Scala, Milan, opened | ST : | James cook discovers Hawaii | DL : | Act of Congress prohibits import of slaves into the U.S. | VA : | Giovanni Battista Piranesi dies 9 November |
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| | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Heilig
for two choruses
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart :
Sinfonia Concertante
| VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby : Firework Display at the Castel Sant' Angelo in Rome | PH : | Spain declares war on Britian | PH : | British war against Mahrattas in India | LT : | Samuel Johnson: Lives of the Poets | RP : | David Hume: Dialogues of Natural Religion (posth.) | ST : | James Rennel: "Bengal Atlas" | DL : | First children's clinic, London | DL : | The Derby established at Epson racetrack, Surrey, England | DL : | Pope Pius VI begins draining Pontine Marshes | DL : | First 'velocipedes' appear in Paris | VA : | Anton Raphael Mengs dies 29 June | VA : | Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin dies 6 December |
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| | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : Education is Everything | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : Fête at Rambouillet | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze : Young Woman in a White Hat | PH : | Henry Grattan demands Home Rule for Ireland | PH : | Gordon riots in London ("No Popery") | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Bohemia and Hungary | PH : | Empress Maria Theresa dies; succeeded by her son Joseph II | PH : | Outbreak of Second Mysore War | PH : | Rebellion in Peru against Spanish rule | RP : | Gaetano Filangieri: Science of Legislation | M : | Spanish dance 'bolero' invented | M : | Sébastien Erard makes first modern pianoforte | ST : | Circular saw invented by Gervinus | ST : | American Academy of Sciences founded at Boston | DL : | Scheller constructs first fountain pen | DL : | The British Gazette and Sunday Monitor, first Sunday newspapers, appear in London | VA : | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres born 29 August | VA : | Bernardo Bellotto dies 17 October | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard : The Stolen Kiss |
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| | VA : | Henry Fuseli : Nightmare | ST : | William Herschel discovers the Planet Uranus | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Hymns in Prose for Children | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Sonata
No.11 in A
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Horn Concerto
No.4
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Serenade No.10
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, Idomeneo
| PH : | Warren Hastings deposes Rajah of Benares, plunders treasure of the Nabob of Oudh | ED : | Clarendon Press, Oxford, established | RP : | Franciscan monks settle at Los Angeles | DL : | Joseph II grants patent of religious tolerance and freedom of press in Austria | RP : | Kant: Critique of Pure Reason, fundamental work of modern philosophy | RP : | Moses Mendelssohn: On the Civil Amelioration of the Condition of the Jews | M : | Johann Adam Hiller establishes the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig | ST : | Herschel discovers the planet Uranus | ST : | Composition of mineral tungsten discovered | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Aust. dominions |
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| | VA : | Henry Fuseli : The Three Witches | LT : | William Blake: Poetical Sketches | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, The Abduction from the Seraglio
| M : | Joseph Haydn : Six string quartets
published as Opus 33
| VA : | Francesco Guardi : Concert | VA : | George Romney : Lady Hamilton as 'Nature' | PH : | Tippoo Sahib succeeds Hyder Ali in Mysore | PH : | Rama I founds new dynasty in Siam, makes Bangkok his capital | PH : | Pope Pius VI in Vienna fails to persuade Joseph II to rescind program of tolerance | RP : | Joseph Priestley: A History of the Corruptions of Christianity | ED : | Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, founded | RP : | Dugald Stewart: Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind | ST : | Montgolfier brothers construct air balloon | ST : | James Watt invents double-acting rotary steam engine | PH : | Bank of North America established in Philadelphia | VA : | Richard Wilson dies 15 May | M : | Nicolò Paganini born 27 October |
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| | ST : | First successful hot-air ballon flight
| VA : | Jean-Baptiste Perronneau dies | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.36, 'Linz'
| PH : | Great Britain recognises American independence | DL : | Joseph II enforces Germ. language in Bohemia | DL : | Famine in Japan | ST : | William Herschel: Motion of the Solar System in Space | RP : | Kant: Prolegomen to Any Possible Metaphysics | RP : | Moses Mendelssohn: Jerusalem, plea for freedom of conscience | RP : | Charles Simeon begins evangelical movement at Cambridge | DL : | Bank of Ireland founded | DL : | Civil marriage and divorce in Aust. dominions |
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| | VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds : Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse | VA : | Jacques-Louis David : The Oath of the Horatii | VA : | Henry Fuseli : Lady Macbeth | PH : | Treaty of Constantinople: Turkey agrees to Russian annexation of the Crimea | PH : | Joseph II abrogates constitution in Hungary, suppressing feudal rights | RP : | First Anglican bishop for the colonies | ED : | Bengal Asiatic Society (study of Sanskrit) founded by William Jones | RP : | Bernardin de Saint-Pierre: Etudes de la nature | RP : | Herder: Ideas Toward a Philosophy of History | RP : | Kant: Notion of a Universal History in a Cosmopolitan Sense | RP : | John Wesley's Deed of Declaration, the charter of Wesleyan Methodism | ST : | Swiss inventor Aimé Argant designs oil burner | ST : | Eng. mathematician George Atwood accurately determines acceleration of a free-falling body | ST : | Joseph Bramah constructs first patent lock | ST : | Goethe discovers human intermaxillary bone | ST : | Scot. millwright Andrew Meikle invents threshing machine | ED : | First school for the blind in Paris | DL : | Serfdom abolished in Denmark | VA : | Allan Ramsay dies 10 August |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.20
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.21
| VA : | George Stubbs : Haymaking | PH : | Der Fürstenbund (League of German Princes) formed by Frederick the Great against Joseph II | PH : | Commercial Treaty signed between Prussia and the U.S. | LT : | The Reverend James Wilmot of Warwickshire identifies Francis Bacon, as author of Shakespeare's plays | ED : | Educational reforms in Germany | RP : | Kant: Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Ethics | PH : | James Madison's Religious Freedom Act abolishes religious tests in Virginia | RP : | William Paley: Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy | ST : | Salsano: seismograph for measuring earthquakes | VA : | Pietro Longhi dies 8 May |
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| | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.38, 'Prague'
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.23
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, The Marriage of Figaro
| M : | Joseph Haydn :
'Paris' symphonies (including No.82 and No.83, 'The Bear' and 'The Hen')
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.24
| VA : | Henry Fuseli : Oedipus Cursing His Son, Polynices | PH : | Frederick the Great dies; succeeded by his nephew Frederick William II | LT : | Berlin Court Theatre opens | RP : | Mennonites from Central Europe settle in Canada | ST : | William Herschel: Catalogue of Nebulae | ST : | M.H.Klaproth, Ger. chemist, discovers uranium | ST : | American inventor H.James Rumsey designs first mechanically driven boat | ST : | Earliest attempts at internal gas lighting in Germany and England | M : | Carl Maria von Weber born 18 November |
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| | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough : The Woodsman | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Serenade, Eine kleine Nachtmusik
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, Il dissoluto punito, ossia Il Don Giovanni
('The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni')
| VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds : Heads of Angels | VA : | Jacques-Louis David : The Death of Socrates
| VA : | Hubert Robert : The Pont du Gard | VA : | George Romney : Miss Constable | PH : | Aust. Netherlands declared province of Hapsburg monarchy | PH : | Parliament of Paris demands summoning of States-General | PH : | Turkey declares war on Russia | RP : | John Adams: A Defence of the Constitution of Government of the U.S.A. | RP : | Jeremy Bentham: Defence of usury | ED : | Imperial Russian Dictionary with 285 words in 200 languages | RP : | James Madison: The Vices of the Political System of the United States | ST : | Lavoisier: Méthode de nomenclature chimique | DL : | Dollar currency introduced in the US | DL : | English settlement founded for freed slaves in Sierra Leone | VA : | Pompeo Girolamo Batoni dies 4 February |
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| | DL : | London's Daily Universal Register becomes the Times | LT : | William Blake: Natural Religion | M : | C.P.E. Bach : Double Concerto
for Harpsichord, Piano and Orchestra in Eb
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.39
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Concerto
for Flute and Harp in C Major
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.40
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Symphony
No.41 ('Jupiter')
| PH : | Austria declares war on Turkey | DL : | Brit. parliamentary motion for abolition of slave trade | PH : | George III's first attack of mental illness; regency crisis in England | RP : | Kant Critique of Practical Reason | ED : | John Lemprière: Classical Dictionary | RP : | Hannah More: Thoughts on the Importance of the Manners of the Great to General Society | ST : | James Hutton: New Theory of the Earth | ST : | Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace: Laws of the Planetary System | DL : | Bread riots in France | DL : | First German cigar factory opens | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron born 22 January | VA : | Maurice Quentin de La Tour dies 17 February | VA : | Thomas Gainsborough dies 2 August | M : | C.P.E. Bach dies 14 December | VA : | Francesco Zuccarelli dies 30 December |
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| | PH : | George Washington elected the First President of the United States     GO ! | PH : | The French Revolution begins | ST : | Planetary satellites of Saturn, Enceladus and Mimas were discovered by Herschel | LT : | William Wordsworth: An Evening Walk | LT : | William Blake: Songs of Innocence | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, Cosi fan tutte
('Women Are All the Same')
| VA : | Jacques-Louis David : The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
| VA : | George Romney : Tom Hayley as Robin Goodfellow
| PH : | King George II of England recovers | PH : | Aust. Netherlands declare independence as Belgium | PH : | Abdul Hamid I dies; succeeded as Sultan of Turkey by his nephew Selim III | RP : | Jeremy Bentham: Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation | M : | Charles Burney: History of Music | ST : | Antoine Jussieu: Genera plantarum, modern classification of plants | ED : | Pennsylvania State University | DL : | Journal des dèbates founded in Paris | DL : | Tammany founded as benevolent institution, but shortly after becomes political | VA : | Claude-Joseph Vernet dies 3 December |
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| | LT : | William Blake: Marriage of Heaven and Hell | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: An Address to the Opposers of the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts | VA : | Henry Fuseli : Thor in the Boat of Hymir | VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby : An Italian Landscape with Mountains and a River | PH : | Joseph of Austria dies; succeeded by his brother Leopold II | PH : | Festival of Champs de Mars, Paris; Louis XVI accepts the constitution | PH : | Third Mysore War | LT : | Royal Literary Fund initiated by David Williams | RP : | Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France | RP : | Jews in France are granted civil liberties | RP : | Kant : Kritik der Urteilskraft | RP : | The first Roman Catholic bishop consecrated in America | M : | First musical competition in America | ST : | Lavoisier: Table of Thirty-One Chemical Elements | RP : | Alexander Raditcheff: Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow, a plea for the emancipation of serfs | DL : | Washington, D.C., founded | PH : | First session of the Supreme Court of the U.S. | VA : | William Blake : The Marriage of Heaven & Hell |
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| | LT : | William Blake: The French Revolution | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Epistle to William Wilberforce, Esq. on the Rejection of the Bill for Abolishing the Slave Trade of 1791 | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Requiem Mass
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : German Dances
(set of 3), 'Sleigh Ride'
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Piano Concerto
No.27
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Clarinet Concerto
| M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Opera, The Magic Flute
| VA : | Benjamin West : The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise | PH : | Louis XVI, trying to leave France with his family is caught at Varennes and returned to Paris | PH : | Massacre of the Champ de Mars, Paris | PH : | Fr. National Assembly dissolves | PH : | First ten amendments to U.S. constitution (Bill of Rights) ratified    GO ! | PH : | Canada Constitutional Act divides the country into two provinces, Upper and Lower Canada | RP : | Herder: Ideen zur Philosophie die Geschichte der Menschheit | RP : | Thomas Paine: The Rights of Man, Part I | RP : | Philippe Pinel: Traitè mèdico-philosophique sur l'aliènation mentale | M : | The waltz becomes fashionable in England | DL : | Bank of North America founded | DL : | Wilberfource's motion for abolition of slave trade carried through Parliament | ED : | London School of Veterinary Surgery founded | VA : | Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault born 26 September | M : | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart dies 5 December |
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| | LT : | The Old Farmers Almanac is published for the first time | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Remarks on Gilbert Wakefield's Enquiry into . . . Public or Social Worship | M : | Joseph Haydn :
'London' symphonies (including No.94 'The Surprise')
| PH : | Peace of Jassy ends war between Russia and Turkey | PH : | Leopold II of Austria dies; succeeded as Holy Roman Emperor by his son Francis II | PH : | The Girondists form ministry in France; the royal family imprisoned | PH : | Gustavus II assassinated in Stockholm Opera House: succeeded as King of Sweden by Gustavus IV | PH : | France declares war on Austria, Prussia, and Sardinia | DL : | Denmark is the first nation to abolish the slave trade | PH : | Two political parties formed in the U.S.: The Republican and the Federalist | RP : | Baptist Missionary Society founded in London | RP : | Thomas Paine: Rights of Man, Part II | RP : | Mary Wollstonecraft: Vindication of the Rights of Women | ST : | Worlds's first chemical society founded, Philadelphia | ST : | French engineer Claude Chappe invents mechanical semaphore signal | ST : | Illuminating gas used in England for the first time | DL : | Libel Act passed in Britain | DL : | Dollar coinage minted in U.S. | M : | Giaocchino Antonio Rossini born 29 February |
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| | PH : | Reign of Terror in France | LT : | William Wordsworth: Descriptive Sketches | LT : | William Blake: America: A Prophecy and Visions of the Daughters of Albion | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Sins of Government, Sins of the Nation | VA : | Jacques-Louis David : Marat Assassinated
| VA : | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson : Endymion Asleep | VA : | George Stubbs : William Anderson with Two Saddle-horses
| PH : | Louis XVI executed | PH : | Reign of Terror begins | RP : | Roman Catholicism banned in France | PH : | Queen Marie Antoinette executed | PH : | Holy Roman Empire declares war on France | PH : | Second Partition of Poland | ED : | Compulsory public education in France from the age of six | RP : | The Feast of Reason in St. Eustache Church, Paris | RP : | William Godwin; The Inquiry concerning Political Justice | RP : | Kant: Religion innherhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft (Religion within the limits of mere reason) | ST : | Kermadec Islands discovered | ST : | Eli Whitney invents the cotton gin | DL : | Board of Agriculture established in Britain | DL : | U.S. law compels escaped slaves to return to their owners | VA : | Francesco Guardi dies in January | LT : | John Clare born 13 July |
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| | LT : | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship | LT : | William Blake: Songs of Innocence and of Experience and The First Book of Urizen | VA : | Jacques-Louis David : Self Portrait | VA : | Sir Henry Raeburn : Portrait of Sir John Sinclair | VA : | William Blake : God as an Architect | PH : | "Feast of the Supreme Being" in Paris | PH : | The Commune of Paris abolished | PH : | Jacobin Club closed | PH : | Habeas Corpus Act suspended in Britian | PH : | Agha Mohammed founds the Kajar dynasty in Persia | PH : | U.S. Navy established | LT : | Drury Lane Theatre, London, reopened | ST : | Erasmus Darwin: Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life | RP : | Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason | ST : | Adrien Legendre: Elèments de gèomètrie | ST : | First telegraph, Paris - Lille | DL : | Slavery abolished in French colonies | ED : | Ecole Normale founded in Paris | ED : | Ecole Polytechnique, the word's first technical college, opens in Paris | LT : | William Cullen Bryant born 3 November |
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| | LT : | William Blake: The Song of Los | M : | Joseph Haydn :
Six more 'London' symphonies (including No.100 'The Military', and No.101, 'The Clock'
| VA : | Baron François Gérard : Jean-Baptiste Isabey and his Daughter | VA : | Sir Henry Raeburn : Miss Eleanor Urquhart | PH : | Bread riots and White Terror in Paris | PH : | Napoleon appointed commander-in-chief, Italy | PH : | Secret treaty between Austria and Russia for Third Partition of Poland; joined by Prussia | PH : | Third Partition of Poland | PH : | King Stanislas II abdicates | PH : | Treaty of San Lorenzo between U.S. and Spain settles boundary with Florida | RP : | Freedom of worship in France | RP : | Kant: Zum ewigen Frieden | M : | Paris Conservatoire de Musique founded | ST : | Joseph Bramah invents hydraulic press | ED : | Institute National, Paris, to replace the abolished academies | ST : | Metric system adopted in France | DL : | Speenhamland Act for poor relief in Britain | VA : | Sir Joshua Reynolds dies 23 February | LT : | Joseph Rodman Drake born 7 August | LT : | John Keats born 31 October |
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| | LT : | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems on Various Subjects | M : | Joseph Haydn : Trumpet Concerto
| PH : | John Adams elected second president of the U.S.    GO ! | PH : | Spain declares war on Britain | PH : | Agha Mohammed of Persia siezes Khurasan in Khuzistan | PH : | Kau-Tsung, great Manchu Emperor of China dies, succeeded by Kia-King | RP : | Louis de Bonald: Thèorie du pouvoir politique et religieux | RP : | Jean Jacques Cambacérès: Projet de code civil | RP : | Joseph de Maistre: Considérations sur la France | RP : | Richard Watson: An Apology for the Bible | ST : | G.L.C. Cuvier founds the science of comparative zoology | ST : | C.W.Hufeland: Macrobiotics, or The Art to Prolong One's Life | ST : | Engl. physician Edward Jenner introduces vaccination against smallpox | ST : | J.T. Lowitz prepares pure ethyl alcohol | DL : | Edict of Peking forbids import of opium into China | DL : | Freedom of press in France | ED : | Royal Technical College, Glasgow, founded | VA : | Camille Corot born 16 July |
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| | LT : | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems, Second Edition | M : | Joseph Haydn : Six string quartets
published as Opus 76 (including 'Emperor Quartet')
| VA : | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson : Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley | PH : | Napoleon proclaims Venetian Constitution, founds Ligurian Republic in Genoa | PH : | Peace of Campo Formio between France and Austria | PH : | Final treaty of Polish partition | PH : | Frederick William II dies; succeeded as King of Prussia by his son Frederick William III | PH : | Fath Ali, Shah of Persia | RP : | Chateaubriand: Essai historique, politique, et moral sur les révolutions | RP : | Kant: Metaphysik der Sitten | RP : | Schelling: Idden zu einer Philosophie der Natur | RP : | Wackenroder and Tieck: Outpourings of a Monk, romantic religious essays | RP : | William Wilberforce: Practical View of the Religious System | ST : | Thomas Bewick: British Birds | ST : | J.L.Langrange: Théorie des fonctions analytiques | ST : | Ger. astronomer H.W.M.Olbers publishes his method of calculating the orbits of comets | ST : | Nicolas de Saussure: Recherches chimiques sur la végétation | DL : | First copper pennies minted in England and first one-pound notes issued | M : | Franz Schubert born 31 January | VA : | Joseph Wright of Derby dies 29 August | M : | Gaetano Domenico Maria Donizetti born 29 November |
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| | LT : | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Lyrical Ballads | M : | Joseph Haydn : Oratorio
The Creation
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Piano Concerto No.1
| VA : | Joseph Mallord William Turner : Buttermere Lake: A Shower | VA : | Baron François Gérard : Cupid and Psyche | PH : | French capture Rome: proclaim Roman Republic; Pope Pius VI leaves the city for Valence | PH : | Napoleon master of Egypt | PH : | King Ferdinand IV of Naples declares war on France and enters Rome | PH : | Treaty of Hyderabad between Britain and the Nizam | PH : | The last King of Poland, Augustus Stanislas II dies | RP : | T.R.Malthus: Essay on the Principle of Population | ST : | Ger. inventor Aloys Senefelder invents lithography | DL : | Income tax of 10% of all incomes over £200 introduced in Britain as wartime measure | VA : | Gavin Hamilton dies 4 January | VA : | Eugène Delacroix born 26 April |
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| | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Die Maske
three-act singspiel
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Pathétique Piano Sonata
| PH : | Austria declares war on France | PH : | Britain joins Russo-Turk alliance | PH : | Kingdom of Mysore divided between Britain and Hyderabad | RP : | Church Missionary Society founded in London | RP : | Fichte: System der Sittenlehre | RP : | Herder: Metakritik, attacks Kant and Fichte | RP : | Schlegel: Geschichte der Poesie der Griechen und Römer | RP : | Schleiermacher: Reden über die Religion | ED : | Universities of Cologne and Mainz closed | ED : | Egyptian Institute founded at Cairo | ED : | Pestalozzi's school in Burgdorf, Switzerland, opened | ED : | Rosetta Stone found - deciphering of hieroglyphics now possible |
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| | M : | Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphony
No.1
| VA : | Francisco José de Goya Y Lucientes : Nude Maja | VA : | Jacques-Louis David : Portrait of Madame Récamier | VA : | Sir Henry Raeburn : Portrait of Lieutenant Colonel William Shirriff H.E.I.C.S.
| VA : | Sir Henry Raeburn : Lady Anne Torphicen | VA : | William Blake : Job and his Daughters | PH : | U.S. federal offices are moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C. - the new capital city | PH : | Napoleon appoints committee of jurists to draw up Civil Code | RP : | Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti elected Pope Pius VII | RP : | Fichte: Der geschlossene Handelsstaat | RP : | Arnold Heeren: European Political Systems | RP : | Schelling: System des transzendentalen Idealismus | RP : | Church of United Brethren in Christ founded in the U.S. | ST : | German physician F.J. Gall founds practice of phrenology | ST : | William Herschel discovers existence of infrared solar rays | ED : | Royal College of Surgeons, London, founded | ST : | Alessandro Volta produces electricity from cell; first battery of zinc and copper plates | ST : | Eli Whitney makes muskets with interchangeable parts | DL : | Letter post introduced in Berlin | DL : | Robert Owen takes over New Lanark mills and starts social reforms |
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| | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Overture, Musica per la chiesa
| M : | Joseph Haydn : Oratorio
The Seasons
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
'Moonlight' Piano Sonata
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Piano Concerto No.3
| PH : | Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland comes into force | PH : | Peace of Lunéville between Austria and France marks the actual end of the Holy Roman Empire | PH : | Thomas Jefferson inaugurated President of U.S.    GO ! | PH : | Czar Paul I assassinated; succeeded by Alexander I | RP : | K.F. Gauss: Disquisitiones arithmeticae | RP : | Hegel and Schelling published the Critical Journal of Philosophy | ST : | M.F.X. Bichat: Anatomie générale | ST : | American civil engineer Robert Fulton produces the first submarine "Nautilus" | ST : | J.J. Lalande catalogues 47,390 stars | DL : | Bank of France founded | DL : | The Union Jack becomes official flag of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | ST : | Victoria Regia discovered in Amazon Territory | M : | Vincenzo Bellini born 3 November |
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| | LT : | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poems | M : | Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphony
No.2
| VA : | Baron François Gérard : Madame Récamier | PH : | Napoleon becomes President of Italian Republic | PH : | Peace of Amiens between Britain and France | RP : | Jeremy Bentham: Civil and Penal Legislation | ED : | G.F. Grotefend deciphers Babylonian cuneiform | RP : | Daniel Webster: The Rights of Neutral Nations in Time of War | VA : | Period of the Classicist Empire style | ST : | John Dalton introduces atomic theory into chemistry | ST : | William Herschel discovers binary stars | ST : | German naturalist Gottfried Trevinarus coins the term "biology" | DL : | Peerage published in London by John Debrett | DL : | The Duke of Richmond introduces horse racing at Goodwood | DL : | "Health and Morals of Apprentices" Act in Britain | VA : | George Romney dies 15 November |
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| | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Mass in G
(lost)
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
'Kreutzer' Violin Sonata
| PH : | Swiss cantons regain independence (Act of Mediation) | PH : | U.S. buys large tract of land from Louisiana Purchase    GO ! | PH : | Second Mahratta War against Sindhia of Gwalior | RP : | Greek patriot Adamantios Coräes publishes his Present Conditions of Civilisation in Greece | RP : | Joseph Lancaster: Improvements in Education as it Respects the Industrious Classes | ST : | Claude Berthollet: Essai de statique chimique | ST : | Lazare Carnot: Principes fondamentaux de l'équilibre et du mouvement | ST : | Robert Fulton propels a boat by steam power | ST : | Henry Shrapnel invents shell | ST : | Building of Caledonian Canal begins | ED : | Technical College, Prague, founded | M : | Adolphe Adam born 24 July | M : | Hector Berlioz born 11 December |
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| | M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
'Waldstein' Piano Sonata
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphony
No.3 ('Eroica')
| VA : | Joseph Mallord William Turner : The Passage of the St. Gothard | VA : | Baron Antoine-Jean Gros : Napoleon in the Pesthouse at Jaffa | VA : | Pierre-Paul Prud'hon : Innocence Preferring Love to Wealth
| PH : | Napoleon, proclaimed emperor by Senate and Tribunate, is crowned in the presence of Pope Pius VII in Paris | PH : | Francis II assumes the title of Emperor of Austria as Francis I | PH : | Spain declares war on Britain | RP : | British and Foreign Bible Society founded in London | PH : | Code Napoléon promulgated | ST : | Thomas Brown Inquiry into the Relation of Cause and Effect | VA : | English Water Colour Society founded | ST : | Thomas Bewick completes his History of British Birds | DL : | The first dahlias in England | M : | Mikhail Glinka born 1 June |
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| | LT : | William Wordsworth: Elegiac Stanzas | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: The Lay of the Last Minstrel | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Mass in D Minor
| M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Singspiel, Die lustigen Musikanten
| M : | Nicolò Paganini : 24 Caprices
for solo violin
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven : Opera, Fidelio
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
'Appasionata' Piano Sonata
| VA : | Pierre-Paul Prud'hon : The Empress Josephine | VA : | Benjamin West : The Fatal Wounding of Sir Philip Sidney | PH : | Thomas Jefferson begins his second term as President of U.S.    GO ! | PH : | Treaty of St. Petersburg by Britain and Russia against France, joined by Austria | PH : | Napoleon crowned as King of Italy in Milan | PH : | Peace of Pressburg between Austria and France; Bavaria and Württemberg becomes kingdoms | PH : | Establishment of modern Egypt; Mehemet Ali proclaimed Pasha | RP : | Hosea Ballou: A Treatise on Atonement | RP : | Lord Liverpool: Treatise on the Coins of the Realm | ST : | Rockets, originally constructed by Sir William Congreve, are reintroduced as weapons into the British army | ST : | F.W.A. Sartürner isolates morphine | DL : | Napoleon abandons French revolutionary calendar | ED : | Pestalozzi school at Yverdun, Switzerland | VA : | Jean-Baptiste Greuze dies 21 March | M : | Luigi Boccherini dies 28 May |
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| | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Fugitive Pieces privately printed | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Symphony,
Eb
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
'Razumovsky' String Quartets
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Violin Concerto
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Piano Concerto No.4
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven : Symphony
No.4
| VA : | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres : Napoleon | PH : | Joseph Bonaparte named King of Naples | PH : | Louis Bonaparte named King of Holland | PH : | Napoleon's Berlin Decree begins "Continental System" | PH : | Confederation of Rhine founded | PH : | Peace of Posen: Saxony is made a kingdom | ED : | J.C. Adelun: Mithridates, a History of Languages and Dialects | RP : | Fichte: Bericht über die Wissenschaftslehre | ED : | Institute de France created by combining Académie Française with other academies | RP : | James Madison: An Examination of the British Doctrine which Subjects to Capture a Neutral Trade not Open in Time of Peace | RP : | Napoleon establishes a consistorial organisation for Jews in France | ST : | P.A. Latreille: Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum | ST : | Sir Francis Beaufort designs scale to indicate wind strength | LT : | Elizabeth Barret Browning born 6 March | VA : | George Stubbs dies 10 July | VA : | Jean Honoré Fragonard dies 22 August |
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| | LT : | William Wordsworth: Poems in two volumes | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Hours of Idleness | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Quintet
for piano, two violins, viola, doublebass
| M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Quintet
for harp, two violins, viola, cello
| M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Singspiel, Liebe und Eifersucht
| M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Symphonies
No.1 and No.2
| VA : | Pierre-Paul Prud'hon : Portrait of Count Alexander Osterman-Tolstoy
| PH : | Treaty of Tilsit between Napoleon, the Czar, and the King of Prussia | PH : | Jerome Bonaparte becomes King of Westphalia | PH : | Napoleon ensures dictatorship by suppressing Tribunate | PH : | Sultan Selim III of Turkey deposed and succeeded by Mustafa IV | DL : | Baron von Stein emancipates serfs | PH : | France invades Portugal: dethroned Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil | RP : | U.S. Evangelical Association, founded by Jacob Albright, holds its first convention | PH : | Commercial Law Code introduced in France | RP : | Hegel: Phänomenologie des Geistes | RP : | Gottlieb Hufeland: New Foundations of Political Economy | ST : | Charles Bell: System of Comparative Surgery | ED : | Alexander von Humboldt and Bonpland: Voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent, 1799-1804, on Spanish America (first of 30 volumes) | DL : | Horse racing: First Ascot Gold Cup | DL : | England prohibits slave trade | DL : | Street lighting by gas in London |
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| | VA : | Francisco José de Goya Y Lucientes : The Colossus | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: Marmion | LT : | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Canzoni
| M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Opera, Der Trank der Unsterblichkeit
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
'Für Elise' (completed 1810)
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Symphonies No.5 and No.6
| VA : | Baron François Gérard : Caroline Murat and her Children | VA : | Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson : The Entombment of Atala | VA : | Baron Antoine-Jean Gros : Napoleon on the Battlefield of Eylau on 9 February 1807 | VA : | Pierre-Paul Prud'hon : David Johnston | DL : | U.S. prohibits importation of slaves from Africa | PH : | Joseph Bonaparte becomes king of Spain, Joachim Murat becomes King of Naples | PH : | Erfurt Congress | PH : | Rebellion in Madrid: King Joseph flees; Napoleon takes city | LT : | Théâtre St. Philippe, New Orleans, opened | RP : | John Dalton: New System of Chemical Philosophy | RP : | J.F. Fries: New Critique of Reason | RP : | Napoleon abolishes the Inquisition in Spain and Italy | RP : | Schlegel: Von der Sprache und Weisheit der Inder | ST : | J.L.Gay-Lussac: The Combination of Gases | ST : | The source of the Ganges River discovered | DL : | Baronetage published in London by John Debrett | DL : | Disappearance of fashion of pigtails in men's hair | ED : | Extensive excavations begin at Pompeii | DL : | Henry Crabb Robinson, the first war correspondent, sent by The Times of London to Spain to report on the Peninsular War | VA : | Hubert Robert dies 15 April |
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| | VA : | Caspar David Friedrich : Abbey in an Oak Forest | VA : | Joseph Marie Vien dies | LT : | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Elective Affinities | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Piano Trio
| M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Miserere in Bb
| M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Incidental music
to the play Turandot
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Piano Concerto No.5 ('Emperor')
| PH : | Treaty of Dardanelles between Britain and Turkey | PH : | War between France and Austria | PH : | Peace of Schönbrunn | PH : | Austria joins Continental System | PH : | James Madison becomes 4th President of the U.S.    GO ! | PH : | King Gustavus IV of Sweden deposed; succeeded by Charles XIII | PH : | Marshal Jean Bernadotte elected Crown Prince of Sweden | PH : | Treaty of friendship between Britain and the Sikhs at Amritsar | PH : | Napoleon annexes Papal States; Pope Pius VII taken prisoner | PH : | Ecuador gains independence from Spain | M : | Felix Mendelssohn born 3 February | M : | Joseph Haydn dies 31 May | LT : | Alfred, Lord Tennyson born 6 August |
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| | VA : | Caspar David Friedrich : Morning in the Riesengebirge | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: The Lady in the Lake | M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Piano Concerto
No.1
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Overture and incidental music to Egmont
| VA : | Caspar David Friedrich : Cloister Graveyard in the Snow | PH : | Napoleon annexes Holland, Hanover, Bremen, Hamburg, Lauenburg, and Lübeck | PH : | Venezuela breaks away from Spain | RP : | Lazare Carnot: De la défense des places fortes | RP : | Société de Amis formed in Geneva by Protestant revivalists | RP : | Joseph de Maistre: Essay on the Generation of Political Constitutions | VA : | The "Nazarenes" founded by J.F. Overbeck to revive German religious art | ST : | Gail and Spurzheim: Anatomie et physiologie du systèm nerveux | ST : | Samuel Hahnemann founds homeopathy | ST : | François Appert develops techniques for canning food | DL : | First public billiards rooms in England at the Piazza, Covent Garden, London | M : | Frederic Chopin born 1 March | M : | Robert Schumann born 8 June |
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| | LT : | Anna Lætitia Barbauld: Eighteen Hundred And Eleven, A Poem | M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Opera, Abu Hassan
| M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Clarinet Concertos
No.1 and No.2
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
'Archduke' Piano Trio
| VA : | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres : Jupiter and Thetis | PH : | George III of England insane; Prince of Wales becomes Prince Regent | DL : | Austria bankrupt | PH : | Paraguay independent of Spain | RP : | K.A. Böttiger: Kunstmythologie | PH : | Civil Code introduced in Austria | RP : | "Great Schism" of Welsh Protestants; two thirds leave Anglican Church | ED : | Barthold G. Niebuhr: Roman History | ED : | J.P.A. Récusat: Essai sur la langue et la littérature | ED : | University of Christiania, Oslo, founded | ED : | National University of Nicaragua founded | DL : | John Rennie begins the building of Waterloo Bridge, London | M : | Prague Conservatoire is opened | ST : | Amadeo Avogadro: hypothesis of the molecular composition of gases | ST : | Sir Charles Bell: New Idea of the Anatomy of the Brain | ST : | S.O. Poisson: Traité de Mécanique | DL : | French Press Agency founded (later to becomes Agence Havas) | DL : | "Luddites" destroy industrial machines in North England | M : | Franz Liszt born 22 October |
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| | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Childe Harold cantos I and II, published | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Opera, Aurora
| M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Piano Concerto
No.2
| M : | Giaocchino Antonio Rossini : Comic Opera, La scala di seta
('The Silken Ladder')
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
Symphonies No.7 and No.8
| VA : | Jacques-Louis David : Napoleon in His Study
| PH : | U.S. declares war on Britain    GO ! | RP : | Baptist Union of Great Britain formed | ED : | H.F. Genesius: Hebrew and Chaldaic Dictionary | RP : | Hegel: Die objective Logik | RP : | Jews in Prussia emancipated (Hardenberg reforms) | VA : | Elgin Marbles brought to England | M : | Founding of Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna | VA : | Swiss explorer Burckhardt discovers the Great Temple of Abu Simbel | ST : | Georges Cuvier: Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupèdes | ST : | Humphry Davy: Elements of Chemical Philosophy | ST : | Philippe Girard invents machine for spinning flax | ST : | Laplace: Thérie analytique | DL : | Royal Yacht Squadron founded | DL : | Gas, Light and Coke Company, London developed by F.A. Winsor | VA : | Pierre-Etienne-Théodore Rousseau born 15 April | LT : | Robert Browning born 7 May |
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| | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: Rokeby | LT : | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: The Giaour and The Bride of Abydos | M : | Giaocchino Antonio Rossini : Comic Opera, L'italiana in Algeri
('The Italian Girl in Algiers')
| M : | Nicolò Paganini : Le streghe
('Witches Dance')
| PH : | Prussia declares war on France | PH : | Austria declares war on France | PH : | French expelled from Holland; return of William of Orange | PH : | Simón Bolivar becomes dictator of Venezuela | PH : | Mexico declares itself independent | RP : | J.F. Herbart: Introduction to Philosophy | RP : | Methodist Missionary Society founded | RP : | Robert Owen: A New View of Society | RP : | Schopenhauer: Über die vierfache Wurzel des Satzes vom sureichenden Grunde | M : | London Philharmonic Society founded | DL : | Last gold guinea coins issued in England | M : | The waltz conquers the European ballrooms | M : | Richard Wagner born 22 May | M : | Giuseppe Verdi born 10 October |
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| | LT : | William Wordsworth: The Excursion | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: Waverly | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: The Corsair and Lara published | M : | Franz Schubert : Song, Gretchen am Spinnerade
('Gretchen and the Spinning Wheel')
| VA : | Francisco José de Goya Y Lucientes : The Third of May, 1808 | VA : | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres : Grand Odalisque | VA : | Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres : Raphael and the Fornarina | PH : | Napoleon abdicates and is banished to Elba | PH : | Louis XVIII enters Paris and takes up the throne as his hereditary right | PH : | Congress of Vienna opens | PH : | Christian Frederick of Denmark elected King of Norway | PH : | Treaty of Ghent ends British-American war    GO ! | PH : | Hanover proclaimed a kingdom | PH : | Lord Hastings, Governor-General of India, declares war on the Gurkhas (Nepal) | ED : | Chateaubriand: De Buonaparte et le Bourbons | RP : | Pope Pius VII returns to Rome and restores the Inquisistion | RP : | Savigny: The Claim of Our Age on Legislation | VA : | Dulwich Gallery, London, opened | M : | J.N. Maelzel invents the metronome | ST : | Berzelius: Theory of Chemical Proportions and the Chemical Action of Electricity | ST : | M.J.B. Orfila: Toxicologie générale | ST : | At Killingworth Colliery, George Stephenson constructs the first practical steam locomotive | DL : | English Statute of Apprentices (1563) repealed | M : | Johann Friedrich Reichardt dies 27 June | VA : | Jean-François Millet born 4 October |
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| | LT : | William Wordsworth: Collected Poems | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: Guy Mannering | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: The Lord of the Isles | LT : | Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Biographia Literaria | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Hebrew Melodies | M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Clarinet Quintet
| M : | Franz Schubert : Songs, Der Erlkönig, Heidenröslein
| PH : | Napoleon leaves Elba; the "Hundred Days"; Napoleon abdicates again and is banished to St. Helena | PH : | Swiss Federal Pact ratified; the Confederation now consists of 22 cantons | PH : | Joachim Murat, King of Naples executed after attempt to regain Naples | PH : | Brazil declares itself an independent empire | RP : | Protestant Baseler Missiongesellschaft founded | RP : | T.R. Malthus: An Inquiry into the Nature and Progress of Rent | ED : | Savigny: History of Roman Law in the Middle Ages | RP : | Dugald Stewart: Progress of Metaphysical, Ethical, and Political Philosophy | VA : | The Biedermeier styles arrives | ST : | Miner's safety lamp invented | ST : | Augustin Fresnel: research on the diffraction of light | ST : | Lamarck: Histoire naturelle des animaux | ST : | L.J. Prout: hypothesis on relation between specific gravity and atomic weight | DL : | Apothecaries Act forbids unqualified doctors to practice in Britain | DL : | British income tax ended | DL : | British road surveyor John Macadam constructs roads of crushed stone | DL : | Eruption of Sumbawa Volcano in Indonesia - more than 50,000 dead | ED : | Technological College, Vienna, founded | VA : | Ernest Meissonier born 21 February |
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| | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: Tales of my Landlord | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Childe Harold canto III and The Prisoner of Chillon | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: The Siege of Corinth and Parisina | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann : Opera, Undine
| M : | Franz Schubert : Symphonies
No.4 'Tragic', and No.5
| M : | Giaocchino Antonio Rossini : Comic Opera, Il barbiere di Siviglia
('The Barber of Seville')
| PH : | Maria I, Queen of Portugal dies; succeeded by her son, Dom John VI | PH : | Argentina declared independent | PH : | Prince Metternich opens Diet of German Confederation at Frankfurt | RP : | American Bible Society founded | ED : | Nikolai Karamzin: History of the Russian Empire | ST : | Sir David Brewster invents kaleidoscope | ST : | Stethoscope invented | DL : | Blackwood's Magazine founded, Edinburgh | DL : | English economic crisis causes large-scale emigration to Canada and U.S. |
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| | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: Rob Roy | LT : | John Keats: Poems | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Manfred | LT : | William Cullen Bryant: Thanatopsis | M : | Franz Schubert : Songs, Die Forelle ('The Trout'), Der Tod und das Mädchen (Death and the Maiden'), An die Musik
| M : | Giaocchino Antonio Rossini : Opera, Armida
| M : | Giaocchino Antonio Rossini : Opera, La gazza ladra
('The Thieving Magpie')
| M : | Giaocchino Antonio Rossini : Comic Opera, La Cenerentola
('Cinderella')
| M : | Nicolò Paganini : Violin Concerto
No.1
| VA : | Caspar David Friedrich : Cemetery at Dusk | VA : | Caspar David Friedrich : City at Moonrise | PH : | James Monroe inaugurated as fifth President of the U.S.    GO ! | PH : | Wartburg Festival of revolutionary German students | RP : | August Böckh: The Public Economy of Athens | RP : | Lutheran and Reformed Churches in Prussia form Evangelical Union | RP : | Hegel: Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences | RP : | H.F.R. de Lamennais: Essai sur l'indifférence en matière de religion | ED : | Juan Llorente, a former secretary of the Inquisition, publishes his History of the Inquisition in Spain | RP : | Joseph de Maistre: Du Pape | ED : | Braccia Nuova begins building of Vatican Museum, Rome | ST : | Berzelius discovers selenium and lithium | ST : | Karl Ritter: Geographie in ihrer Beziehung zu Natur und Geschichte | DL : | Riots in Derbyshire, England, against low wages | DL : | Opening of Waterloo Bridge, London (replaced 1945) | VA : | Charles-François Daubigny born 15 February |
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| | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: The Heart of Midlothian | LT : | John Keats: Endymion | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Beppo and Childe Harold canto IV | M : | Giaocchino Antonio Rossini : Opera, Mosè in Egitto
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven :
'Hammerklavier' Piano Sonata
| VA : | Caspar David Friedrich : Wanderer above the Sea of Fog | VA : | Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault : Severed Heads | PH : | Act suspending Habeas Corpus is repealed | PH : | Charles XIII of Sweden dies; succeeded by Jean Bernadotte as Charles XIV | PH : | Chile proclaims its independence | PH : | Border between Canada and U.S. agreed upon | ED : | Bonn University founded | ED : | Josef Dobrovsky: History of the Czech language | ED : | Henry Hallam: The View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages | ED : | Prado Museum, Madrid, founded | ST : | F.W. Bessel: Fundamenta Astronomiae, catalog of 3,222 stars | ST : | Berzelius publishes molecular weights of 2,000 chemical compounds | ST : | Cadmium discovered | DL : | British Order of St. Michael and St. George instituted by the Prince Regent | DL : | "Savannah" becomes the first steamship to cross the Atlantic (26 days) | M : | Charles-François Gounod born 18 June |
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| | LT : | William Wordsworth: Peter Bell and The Waggoner | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: The Bride of Lammermoor, Ivanhoe, and A Legend of Montrose | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Mazeppa and Don Juan cantos I and II | M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Invitation to the Dance
for piano (later orchestrated by Berlioz)
| M : | Franz Schubert : 'Trout' Quintet
| VA : | Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault : The Raft of the Medusa | VA : | John Crome : Yarmouth Beach | PH : | Florida purchased by U.S. from Spain | PH : | Bolivar becomes President of Colombia | RP : | Georg Hermes: Philosophical Introduction to Christian Theology | RP : | Jean Sismondi: Nouveaux principes d'economie politique | ST : | Mitscherelich discovers isomorphism | ST : | David Napier constructs the flat-bed cylinder for printing | ST : | Danish physicist Hans Oersted discovers electromagnetism | DL : | Opening of Burlington Arcade, Piccadilly, London | VA : | Mehemet Ali presents Cleopatra's Needle to Britain | DL : | Freedom of the press in France | DL : | Maximum 12-hour working day for juveniles in England | M : | Franz von Suppé born 18 April | LT : | Walt Whitman born 31 May | VA : | Gustave Courbet born 10 June | M : | Jacques Offenbach born 20 June | M : | Clara Wieck Schumann born 13 September |
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| | LT : | John Clare: Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery | LT : | Elizabeth Barret Browning: Battle of Marathon | LT : | William Blake: Jerusalem | VA : | John Constable : Dedham Lock and Mill | VA : | Henry Fuseli : Solitude at Dawn | PH : | Revolution in Spain - King Ferdinand VII forced to restore Constitution of 1812 | PH : | King George III of England dies; succeeded by Prince Regent as George IV | DL : | U.S. Land Law fixes land price at a minimum of $1.25 per acre | RP : | Thomas Brown: Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind | RP : | Thomas Erskine: Internal Evidence for the Truth of Revealed Religion | RP : | J.J. Görres: Germany and the Revolution | RP : | Jesuits driven out of Rome | RP : | T. R. Malthus: Principles of Political Economy | VA : | Discovery of the Venus de Milo | ST : | André Ampère: Laws of the Electrodynamic Action | DL : | Washington Colonization Society founds Liberia for repatriation of Negros | VA : | Benjamin West dies 11 March | LT : | Joseph Rodman Drake dies 21 September |
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| | VA : | Francisco José de Goya Y Lucientes : The Great He-Goat | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: Kenilworth | LT : | John Clare: The Village Minstrel | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Marino Faliero, Don Juan cantos III-V, Cain, The Two Foscari, and Sardanapalus | VA : | John Constable : Study of Clouds at Hampstead | VA : | John Constable : The Hay Wain | M : | Carl Maria von Weber : Opera, Der Freischütz
| PH : | James Monroe begins second term as U.S. president | PH : | Revolution in Piedmont: Victor Emmanuel abdicates, names his brother Charles Felix successor | PH : | Reign of Terror begins between Greeks and Turks | PH : | Peru proclaimed independent from Spain, followed by Guatemala, Panama, and Santo Domingo | ED : | Ecole des Chartes founded in Paris for historical studies | RP : | George Grote: Statement of the Question of Parliamentary Reform | RP : | Hegel: Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts | ED : | Champollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphics using Rosetta Stone | ST : | Faraday discovers fundamentals of electromagnetic rotation | ST : | T.J. Seebeck discovers thermoelectricity | ST : | Sir Charles Wheatstone demonstrates sound reproduction | DL : | London Co-operative Society founded | DL : | Manchester Guardian founded | LT : | John Keats dies 23 February | VA : | John Crome dies 22 April |
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| | LT : | William Wordsworth: Ecclesiastical Sketches | LT : | Sir Walter Scott: The Fortunes of Nigel and Halidon Hill | LT : | George Gordon, Lord Byron: Vision of Judgment | VA : | Eugène Delacroix : Dante and Virgil in Hell | M : | Franz Schubert : Fantasia
in C, 'Wanderer' Fantasy
| M : | Franz Schubert : Symphony
No.8, 'Unfinished'
| M : | Ludwig van Beethoven : Mass
in D (Missa Solemnis)
| VA : | William Blake : The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins | PH : | Greeks adopt liberal republican constitution and proclaim independence | PH : | Augustin de Iturbide elected Emperor of Mexico | PH : | Brazil becomes independent of Portugal | PH : | Congress of Verona opens to discuss European problem | PH : | Bottle riots in Dublin, viceroy attacked by Orangemen | ED : | Colebrooke founds Royal Asiatic Society (study of Eastern languages) | RP : | Jean B. J. Fourier: Thèorie analytique de la chaleur | ST : | J.V. Poncelet: Traité des propriétés projectives des figures on projective geometry | M : | Royal Academy of Music, London, founded | VA : | Daguerre and Bouton invent the diorama, paintings illuminated in dark room to give illusion of reality | ST : | A.J. Fresnel perfects lenses for lighthouses | DL : | Streets of Boston, Mass., lit by gas | DL : | Sunday Times, London, founded | M : | Franz Strauss born 26 February | M : | ErnstTheodor Amadeus Hoffmann dies 25 June | LT : | Mathew Arnold born 24 December |
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