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1818
 
    
The first Reform congregation within Judaism is established in Germany, in the Hamburg Temple       
1818
 
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A leader of the Ismaili sect is granted, by the shah of Persia, the hereditary title of Aga Khan       
1818
 
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The king of Prussia, Frederick William III, makes a bid for German leadership by turning his extensive lands into a custom-free zone (Zollverein)       
1818
 
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Thomas Cochrane arrives in Valparaiso to take command of the Chilean navy      
1818
 
    
In The World as Will and Idea Schopenhauer develops the bleakest possible view of the effects of the human will       
1818
 
     
Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death        
1818
 
    
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man       
Mary Shelley, by Rothwell, c.1840
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1819
 
    
The Sikh maharajah of the Punjab, Ranjit Singh, conquers Kashmir, beginning a century and a half of Sikh dominance in the region       
1819
 
     
William Cobbett brings back to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809        
1819
 
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Spain sells Florida to the USA for $5 million, in return for the waiving of any American claim to Texas