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| 1815 |
| | | English chemist Humphry Davy invents a safety lamp that shields the naked flame and prevents explosions in mines | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Scottish engineer John McAdam builds the first macadamized road, in the Bristol region of southwest England | |
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| 1815 |
| | | The first news of the victory at Waterloo is given to the British government by a private citizen, Nathan Mayer Rothschild | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Napoleon, held on a British warship off Torquay and hoping now to live in Britain, becomes an instant tourist attraction | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Wellington is presented with a twice-life-size nude marble statue, by Canova, of his vanquished enemy Napoleon | |
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| 1815 |
| | | English architect John Nash designs the exotic Royal Pavilion in Brighton for the Prince Regent | |
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| 1817 |
| | | On the death of Princess Charlotte, not one of seven princes has an heir to succeed to the British throne in the next generation | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death | |
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| 1818 |
| | | Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man | |
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