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| 1825 |
| | | A December uprising in St Petersburg ends when troops fire on the crowd, but the 'Decembrists' become revolutionary martyrs | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, inherits the throne of Portugal (as Pedro IV) but continues to rule from Brazil | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Bolívar attempts to create a pan-American gathering in the Congress of Panama | |
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| 1826 |
| | | 17-year-old Felix Mendelssohn composes an overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, amplifed with huge success eighteen years later | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon has its premiere (in London, at Covent Garden) | |
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| 1826 |
| | | In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief | |
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| 1826 |
| | | Scottish engineer Thomas Telford completes two suspension bridges in Wales, at Conwy and over the Menai Strait | |
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| 1827 |
| | | The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion | |
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| 1827 |
| | | Lavalleja defeats a Brazilian army at Ituzaingó, in the decisive battle for Uruguayan independence | |
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| 1827 |
| | | George Canning becomes the British prime minister, but dies five months later | |
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| 1827 |
| | | Britain, France and Russia, supporting Greek independence, defeat the Turkish and Egyptian fleets at Navarino | |
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| 1827 |
| | | German physicist Georg Simon Ohm formulates his law about the proportionality of current flowing in an electric conductor | |
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| 1827 |
| | | With Kaaterskill Falls 26-year-old Thomas Cole pioneers a heroic tradition in US landscape painting | |
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| 1827 |
| | | London's first suspension bridge opens at Hammersmith | |
|  | Hammersmith Bridge, 1828
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| 1827 |
| | | English artist Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, in Kent, for the most inspired years of his career | |
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| 1828 |
| | | The Duke of Wellington becomes British prime minister, heading the Tory government at a time when reform is urgently needed | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Dom Miguel swears allegiance to his brother, the Portuguese king Pedro IV, and becomes regent | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Shaka is murdered by his half-brother Dingaan, who becomes leader of the Zulu in his place | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Dom Miguel betrays his allegiance to his brother Pedro IV and usurps the Portuguese throne in a bloodless coup | |
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| 1828 |
| | | After little more than two years of quarrelsome existence, Robert Owen's community at New Harmony comes to an end | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Conservative 'bigwigs' and liberal 'novices' emerge as Chile's two main political parties | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Connecticut lexicographer Noah Webster publishes the definitive 2-volume scholarly edition of his American Dictionary of the English Language | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Irish nationalist Daniel O'Connell wins a sensational by-election victory to join the Westminster parliament | |
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| 1828 |
| | | The independence of Uruguay is agreed in the Treaty of Montevideo between Brazil and Argentina | |
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| 1828 |
| | | The Cherokees adopt an American-style constitution and publish the first American-Indian newspaper | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Adult white males now have the vote in almost all the states of the USA | |
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| 1828 |
| | | Andrew Jackson, elected president of the USA, introduces the era known as Jacksonian democracy | |
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| 1828 |
| | | William Burke and William Hare murder 16 victims and sell their bodies to the Edinburgh Medical School for anatomical study | |
|  | Execution of William Burke
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| 1829 |
| | | After a century of neglect, the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn conducts an influential revival in Berlin of J.S. Bach's St Matthew Passion | |
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| 1829 |
| | | James Stirling explores up the Swan River in western Australia to find a site for the settlement which he names Perth | |
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