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| 1811 |
| | | The colonists of Paraguay throw out their Spanish governor and declare independence | |
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| 1811 |
| | | An American army attacks and destroys Tecumseh's base at Prophetstown | |
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| 1812 |
| | | French scientist Georges Cuvier introduces scientific palaeontology with his Research on the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Lord Castlereagh becomes British foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's government | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Britain's first primary school is established by Robert Owen at New Lanark in Scotland | |
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| 1812 |
| | | The British prime minister, Spencer Perceval, is assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham | |
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| 1812 |
| | | After the death of Perceval, Lord Liverpool begins a 15-year spell as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Napoleon launches an attack on his ally, the Russian tsar Alexander I, with an army of more than 600,000 men | |
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| 1812 |
| | | The French author Stendhal serves in the French army during the invasion of Russia | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Damage to US trade by British orders in council prompts war (the War of 1812) between the two nations | |
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