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1820
 
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A second liberal revolution in Spain ends with Ferdinand VII a prisoner of the Cortes in Cadiz       
1820
 
    
English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence       
Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Curran, 1819
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1820
 
   
7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine      
1820
 
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The newly independent republic of Argentina takes possession of Las Islas Malvinas (the Falklands)      
1820
 
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The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa      
1820
 
    
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmilla       
1820
 
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The first of the truces is made which will lead to the Trucial States, now known as the United Arab Emirates      
1820
 
   
French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain      
1820
 
   
English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work      
Constable Branch Hill Pond, Hampstead Heath (detail) c.1825
Tate Britain

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1821
 
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An Egyptian army makes its camp at Khartoum, subsequently the capital of an Egyptian province in the Sudan