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The British establish Bathurst (now Banjul) at the mouth of the Gambia as a base against the slave trade
Republican candidate James Monroe wins the US presidential election by a wide margin
London's first iron bridge is completed at Vauxhall
US poet William Cullen Bryant publishes Thanatopsis, written seven years previously at the age of 16
San Martín and O'Higgins lead an army through the Andes into Chile and capture Santiago
An informal financial market on Wall Street is transformed into the New York Stock and Exchange Board
O'Higgins is elected the 'supreme director' of independent Chile after San Martín declines the post
British officers, hoping to shoot a tiger, come across the forgotten Buddhist caves of Ajanta
German physicist Joseph von Fraunhofer observes and draws dark lines in the solar spectrum
Bolívar returns to Venezuela and builds up an army of liberation in a remote region up the Orinoco
Jane Austen dies in Winchester, and is buried in the cathedral
Bernardo O'Higgins introduces liberal reforms in Chile, reducing the privileges of aristocracy and church
On the death of Princess Charlotte, not one of seven princes has an heir to succeed to the British throne in the next generation
Andrew Jackson, attacking settlements in Spanish Florida, launches the first of three wars against the Seminole Indians
John Rennie's new bridge commemorates a recent victory, over Napoleon at Waterloo in 1815
Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes probably his best-known poem, the sonnet Ozymandias
The 49th parallel is agreed as the frontier between the USA and Canada
The first Reform congregation within Judaism is established in Germany, in the Hamburg Temple
A leader of the Ismaili sect is granted, by the shah of Persia, the hereditary title of Aga Khan
The king of Prussia, Frederick William III, makes a bid for German leadership by turning his extensive lands into a custom-free zone (Zollverein)
Thomas Cochrane arrives in Valparaiso to take command of the Chilean navy
Queen Charlotte, wife of George III, dies and the 'Dutch house' in Kew Gardens is closed.
In The World as Will and Idea Schopenhauer develops the bleakest possible view of the effects of the human will
Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man
