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| 1800 |
| | | The Library of Congress, the US national library in all but name, is founded in Washington | |
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| 1804 |
| | | William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Washington Irving uses the fictional Dutch scholar Diedrich Knickerbocker as the supposed author of his comic History of New York | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford university for circulating a pamphlet with the title The Necessity of Atheism | |
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| 1811 |
| | | English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense | |
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| 1812 |
| | | The first two cantos are published of Byron's largely autobiographical poem Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, bringing him immediate fame | |
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| 1813 |
| | | Pride and Prejudice, based on a youthful work of 1797 called First Impressions, is the second of Jane Austen's novels to be published | |
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| 1814 |
| | | US lawyer Francis Scott Key writes The Star-Spangled Banner after seeing the British bombard Fort McHenry | |
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| 1817 |
| | | US poet William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis, written seven years previously at the age of 16 | |
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