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| 1823 |
| | | Austrian composer Franz Schubert writes the song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin ('The beautiful miller's wife') | |
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| 1823 |
| | | A Rugby schoolboy, William Webb Ellis, picks up the football and runs with it in rugby union's founding myth | |
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| 1823 |
| | | A heavenly being appears to Joseph Smith in New York state – an event which launches the Mormon church | |
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| 1823 |
| | | James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, frontiersman known for his 'leather stockings' | |
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| 1823 |
| | | An American poem, A Visit from St Nicholas, describes in every detail the modern Santa Claus | |
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| 1823 |
| | | With the help of an army from France, the Spanish king Ferdinand VII is freed from confinement and restored to his throne | |
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| 1823 |
| | | Bolívar arrives in Lima to be granted command of the army and dictatorial powers in the republic of Peru | |
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| 1823 |
| | | US president James Monroe warns European nations against interfering in America, in the policy which becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine | |
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| 1824 |
| | | The Portuguese prince Dom Miguel briefly topples his father, John VI, from the throne | |
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| 1824 |
| | | The Republican party in the USA splits into National Republicans and Democratic Republicans | |
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| 1824 |
| | | The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is set up within the US War Department | |
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| 1824 |
| | | The Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800, outlawing trade unions in Britain, are repealed | |
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| 1824 |
| | | Lord Byron dies of a fever in Greece, in Missolonghi, at the age of thirty-six | |
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| 1824 |
| | | Beethoven's ninth symphony (the Choral, because of its finale, setting Schiller's Ode to Joy) has its first performance in Vienna | |
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| 1824 |
| | | Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini moves to Paris, where he becomes director of the Théatre Italien | |
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| 1824 |
| | | The reactionary Charles X succeeds to the throne of France on the death of his brother Louis XVIII | |
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| 1824 |
| | | Leading only one half of the ruling Republican party, John Quincy Adams wins the US presidential election | |
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| 1824 |
| | | After the surrender of the Spanish army to Antonio José de Sucre at Ayacucho, Peru is finally liberated | |
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| 1824 |
| | | 12-year-old Charles Dickens works in London in Warren's boot-blacking factory | |
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| 1825 |
| | | The Joint-Stock Companies Act introduces regulations to protect investors in Britain | |
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| 1825 |
| | | With a victory at Tumusla Antonio José de Sucre liberates Upper Peru (the future Bolivia), the last Spanish stronghold in continental America | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Juan Antonio Lavalleja leads a band of Thirty-three Immortals in Uruguay's fight for independence from Brazil | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Italian author Alessandro Manzoni begins publication (completed 1827) of his novel I Promessi Sposi ('The Betrothed') | |
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| 1825 |
| | | The elderly Francisco de Goya becomes the first great artist to attempt lithography | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Upper Peru declares independence as the republic of Bolivia, in honour of Simón Bolívar | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Franz Schubert composes his 'Great' C major symphony (previously often attributed to 1828) | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Active (later called Locomotion) is the engine on the first passenger railway, between Stockton and Darlington | |
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| 1825 |
| | | Work begins on the 363-mile Erie Canal that will link the Hudson River to Lake Erie | |
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| 1825 |
| | | The English socialist Robert Owen purchases New Harmony from the Rappists, to test his utopian theories in a new context | |
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