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An uprising in Greece against Turkish rule is followed by the massacre of several thousand Muslims
The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper
Walter Scott begins to transform Abbotsford into a romantic house that he refers to as his 'conundrum castle'
Britain, France and Russia, supporting Greek independence, defeat the Turkish and Egyptian fleets at Navarino
Victor Hugo's romantic drama Hernani provokes a riot in the Paris audience on the first night
Greece wins independence, with the 17-year-old Otto of Bavaria as king
American novelist William Gilmore Simms publishes Guy Rivers, the first of his series known as the Border Romances
Pugin converts to Roman Catholicism
The Partisan, set in South Carolina, launches the series of novels by William Gilmore Simms known as the Revolutionary Romances
Zanzibar becomes the main place of residence of the sultan of Oman
Robert Schumann composes the song cycle Frauenliebe und -Leben ('Woman's Love and Life')
Muhammad Ali, officially viceroy for the Turkish sultan, establishes his own ruling dynasty on the throne of Egypt
The Straits Convention, agreed between the European powers and Turkey, is a concerted attempt to prop up the Ottoman empire
The Russian tsar, Nicholas I, calls Turkey 'the sick man of Europe'
Pugin begins building, next to his own house, the Roman Catholic church of St Augustine, reached through a cloister
US author Margaret Fuller publishes Woman in the Nineteenth Century, an early and thoughtful feminist study of women's place in society
A new Roman republic is proclaimed, with veteran agitator Giuseppe Mazzini in the leading role
Giuseppe Garibaldi arrives from exile in South America to defend the new Roman republic against a French army
France demands that Turkey should end Russia's exclusive control of the Christian Holy Places in the Ottoman empire
Russia insists that her exclusive rights over the Holy Places are enshrined in the treaty of Kuchuk Kainarji
In a worsening diplomatic crisis, Russia puts her Black Sea fleet in a state of alert at Sebastopol
France and Britain despatch their fleets to the Dardanelles, in readiness to go through the Straits to the Black Sea
Russia occupies two Ottoman principalities, Moldavia and Wallachia, on the west coast of the Black Sea
Antoinette Brown becomes the first female to be ordained a minister in the USA, in the First Congregational Church in South Butler, NY
In the expectation of British and French support, the Ottoman sultan declares war on Russia - launching the Crimean War
