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| 1817 |
| | | On the death of Princess Charlotte, not one of seven princes has an heir to succeed to the British throne in the next generation | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man | |
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| 1819 |
| | | William Cobbett brings back to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809 | |
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| 1819 |
| | | Magistrates order troops to fire on a crowd in Manchester, in what becomes known as the Peterloo massacre | |
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| 1819 |
| | | Byron begins publication in parts of his longest poem, Don Juan an epic satirical comment on contemporary life | |
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| 1819 |
| | | The United Kingdom formally adopts the gold standard for its currency, after using it on a de facto basis since 1717 | |
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| 1819 |
| | | Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The British king George III dies after 59 years on the throne – a longer reign than any of his predecessors | |
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