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| 1819 |
| | | McCulloch v. Maryland defines the tax relationship between the US government and the states | |
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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 |
| | | Bolívar marches his army across the Andes, captures Bogotá and proclaims the republic of Gran Colombia | |
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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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| c. 1819 |
| | | John Rennie completes a cast-iron bridge with the world's longest span, crossing the Thames at Vauxhall | |
|  | Southwark Bridge, by Westall, c.1828
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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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| 1819 |
| | | J.M.W. Turner makes the first of several visits to Venice, and discovers a rich seam of inspiration | |
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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 |
| | | Washington Irving tells the story of the long sleep of Rip Van Winkle in his Sketch Book | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The Eastern Question, concerning Turkey's ability to control its vast empire, becomes a persistent nineteenth-century theme | |
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| 1820 |
| | | French physicist André Marie Ampère begins his researches into the links between electricity and magnetism | |
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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 |
| | | The Missouri Compromise, admitting Maine and Missouri to the union, keeps the balance between 'free' and 'slave' states in the US senate | |
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| 1820 |
| | | A second liberal revolution in Spain ends with Ferdinand VII a prisoner of the Cortes in Cadiz | |
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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 |
| | | 7-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow has a poem published in a newspaper in his home town of Portland, Maine | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The newly independent republic of Argentina takes possession of Las Islas Malvinas (the Falklands) | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa | |
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| 1820 |
| | | Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmilla | |
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| 1820 |
| | | The first of the truces is made which will lead to the Trucial States, now known as the United Arab Emirates | |
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| 1820 |
| | | French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain | |
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| 1820 |
| | | English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work | |
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| 1821 |
| | | An Egyptian army makes its camp at Khartoum, subsequently the capital of an Egyptian province in the Sudan | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The 22-year-old Portuguese prince, Dom Pedro, is made regent of Brazil | |
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| 1821 |
| | | An uprising in Greece against Turkish rule is followed by the massacre of several thousand Muslims | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The British government imposes a merger on two great squabbling enterprises in Canada, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company | |
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| 1821 |
| | | Napoleon dies on St Helena, after six years of captivity | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper | |
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