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12-year-old Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt wins a reputation as a virtuoso performer
Austrian composer Franz Schubert writes the song cycle Die Schöne Müllerin ('The beautiful miller's wife')
A Rugby schoolboy, William Webb Ellis, picks up the football and runs with it in rugby union's founding myth
A heavenly being appears to Joseph Smith in New York state – an event which launches the Mormon church
James Fenimore Cooper's The Pioneers introduces Natty Bumppo, frontiersman known for his 'leather stockings'
An American poem, A Visit from St Nicholas, describes in every detail the modern Santa Claus
With the help of an army from France, the Spanish king Ferdinand VII is freed from confinement and restored to his throne
Bolívar arrives in Lima to be granted command of the army and dictatorial powers in the republic of Peru
US president James Monroe warns European nations against interfering in America, in the policy which becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine
George IV lays the foundation stone for a school on the north east side of Kew Green and gives £300 on condition that the school be called the King’s Free School. Later Queen Victoria permits the school to be called The Queen’s School.
The Portuguese prince Dom Miguel briefly topples his father, John VI, from the throne
The Republican party in the USA splits into National Republicans and Democratic Republicans
The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is set up within the US War Department
The Combination Acts of 1799 and 1800, outlawing trade unions in Britain, are repealed
Lord Byron dies of a fever in Greece, in Missolonghi, at the age of thirty-six
Beethoven's ninth symphony (the Choral, because of its finale, setting Schiller's Ode to Joy) has its first performance in Vienna
Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini moves to Paris, where he becomes director of the Théatre Italien
The King’s Free School is established in a small Gothic building near the pond, with George IV as a major subscriber
The reactionary Charles X succeeds to the throne of France on the death of his brother Louis XVIII
Leading only one half of the ruling Republican party, John Quincy Adams wins the US presidential election
After the surrender of the Spanish army to Antonio José de Sucre at Ayacucho, Peru is finally liberated
The Cambridge Park estate is divided and Meadowbank is built in the southern part.
12-year-old Charles Dickens works in London in Warren's boot-blacking factory
Plans are made for a horse-drawn railroad into the East India Docks, but it is not built
Jonathan Peel, younger brother of Sir Robert Peel, buys Marble Hill. He lives here until his death in 1879 and his widow stays on until her death in 1887.
