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The Joint-Stock Companies Act introduces regulations to protect investors in Britain
With a victory at Tumusla Antonio José de Sucre liberates Upper Peru (the future Bolivia), the last Spanish stronghold in continental America
An act of 1825 authorises the building of a new Kingston Bridge, fifty yards upstream, which is designed by Edward Lapidge
Juan Antonio Lavalleja leads a band of Thirty-three Immortals in Uruguay's fight for independence from Brazil
Italian author Alessandro Manzoni begins publication (completed 1827) of his novel I Promessi Sposi ('The Betrothed')
The elderly Francisco de Goya becomes the first great artist to attempt lithography
Upper Peru declares independence as the republic of Bolivia, in honour of Simón Bolívar
Franz Schubert composes his 'Great' C major symphony (previously often attributed to 1828)
Active (later called Locomotion) is the engine on the first passenger railway, between Stockton and Darlington
Work begins on the 363-mile Erie Canal that will link the Hudson River to Lake Erie
The English socialist Robert Owen purchases New Harmony from the Rappists, to test his utopian theories in a new context
A December uprising in St Petersburg ends when troops fire on the crowd, but the 'Decembrists' become revolutionary martyrs
Turner sells Sandycombe Lodge after his father moves to Turner's central London house in Queen Anne Street. The buyer is Joseph Todd, a retired haberdasher of Clapham, who pays £500.
Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, inherits the throne of Portugal (as Pedro IV) but continues to rule from Brazil
Bolívar attempts to create a pan-American gathering in the Congress of Panama
17-year-old Felix Mendelssohn composes an overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, amplifed with huge success eighteen years later
Carl Maria von Weber's opera Oberon has its premiere (in London, at Covent Garden)
In James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans, Natty Bumppo sides with a Mohican chief
J.M.W. Turner paints two views of the terrace at Mortlake belonging to the Limes, for its owner William Moffatt
Scottish engineer Thomas Telford completes two suspension bridges in Wales, at Conwy and over the Menai Strait
The Turkish governor of Algiers, flicking at the French consul with his fly whisk, finds that he has provoked a French blockade and eventually invasion
Lavalleja defeats a Brazilian army at Ituzaingó, in the decisive battle for Uruguayan independence
George Canning becomes the British prime minister, but dies five months later
The 15-year-old Pugin designs furniture, still in place today, for royal apartments in Windsor Castle
Britain, France and Russia, supporting Greek independence, defeat the Turkish and Egyptian fleets at Navarino
