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1820
 
   
On the death of his father, George III, the Prince Regent succeeds to the British throne as George IV      
1820
 
    
English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden       
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
 
   
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
 
    
English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater       
Thomas de Quincey, by Watson-Gordon, 1845
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1821
 
   
English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five      
Protestant cemetery in Rome, engraving after Walter Severn
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1821
 
    
English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides       
William Cobbett, possibly by Cooke, c.1831
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1821
 
   
English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays      
William Hazlitt, copy by Bewick, 1825
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1821
 
    
During his coronation George IV has the doors of Westminster Abbey closed against his queen, Caroline