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Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmilla
The first of the truces is made which will lead to the Trucial States, now known as the United Arab Emirates
French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain
English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work
An Egyptian army makes its camp at Khartoum, subsequently the capital of an Egyptian province in the Sudan
The 22-year-old Portuguese prince, Dom Pedro, is made regent of Brazil
An uprising in Greece against Turkish rule is followed by the massacre of several thousand Muslims
English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
The British government imposes a merger on two great squabbling enterprises in Canada, the North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company
Napoleon dies on St Helena, after six years of captivity
The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific
English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five
English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides
The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper
French physicist Augustin Jean Fresnel publishes the theory that light is a transverse wave, thus explaining polarization effects
Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischutz has its premiere in Berlin
San Martín enters Lima and proclaims Peruvian independence with himself as 'Protector'
Bolívar defeats the Spanish at Carabobo and liberates, for the second time, his native city of Caracas
English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays
A reactionary movement led by Agustín de Iturbide wins new and lasting independence for Mexico
During his coronation George IV has the doors of Westminster Abbey closed against his queen, Caroline
The Shaker settlements, now widespread in the US, form The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing
The spoken language of the Cherokee Indians is captured in written form – an achievement traditionally attributed to Sequoyah
The Saturday Evening Post is launched in Philadelphia as a weekly to provide light Sunday reading
The Sante Fe Trail, from Missouri to New Mexico, is opened up by the US trader William Becknell
