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| Joseph Rodman Drake (1795 - 1820)
| 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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