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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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| 1820 |
| | | On the death of his father, George III, the Prince Regent succeeds to the British throne as George IV | |
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| 1820 |
| | | English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden | |
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| 1820 |
| | | English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence | |
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| 1820 |
| | | French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain | |
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