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Date
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Event
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1815 |
Corn Bill passed with enormous benefit to landlords. |
*Corn Laws |
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1815 |
France: The Restoration of Louis XVIII. |
*France |
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1815 |
Bonaparte decrees abolition in France during the Hundred Days and the restoration government accepts the decree. Britain secures a declaration against the slave trade at the Congress of Vienna. Sugar prices continue high. Slave trade to Cuba begins to rise sharply. |
*France
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1815 |
Industrial Revolution: onset of industrial depression. |
*Industrial Revolution |
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1815 |
W. Wordsworth, Poems of 1815 and The White Doe of Rylstone. |
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1815 |
Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering. |
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1815 |
Mary Hays, The Brothers, or Consequences. A Story of What Happens Every Day (a novel against primogeniture). |
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1815 |
Byron, a four-volume edition of his poems and Hebrew Melodies. |
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1815 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, Hints Addressed to Patrons and Directors of Schools. |
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1815 |
Charles Lloyd, translations of Alfieri's Tragedies. |
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1815 |
Blake's pictures: Laocoön produced. |
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1815 |
Death of Mary Shelley's newborn baby. |
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1815 |
David Ricardo, An Essay on Profits. |
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1815 |
Germaine de Stael returns to France from her exile. |
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1815 |
Drury Lane (London) production of The Family Legend. |
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1815 |
Beethoven, Sonatas in C major and D major, Op. 102. |
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Jan 1815 |
Byron marries Annabella Millbank. |
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Jan 8, 1815 |
Battle of New Orleans: U.S., under General Andrew Jackson, defeats the British Army--approximately 2 weeks after the official end of the war. |
*United States |
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Feb 22, 1815 |
Birth of Mary Shelley's baby; dies 6 March. |
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Mar 1815 - May 1815 |
The Hundred Days: Napoleon escapes from Elba and temporarily regains power. |
*France |
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Apr 6, 1815 |
Allies mobilize against Napoleon. |
*France |
| Details |
June 18, 1815 |
The Battle of Waterloo: Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena; Restoration of Louis XVIII. |
*France |
| Details |
Nov 20, 1815 |
Second Treaty of Paris. |
*France |
| Details |
Dec 10, 1815 |
Byron's daughter, Ada (Augusta Ada King, countess of Lovelace), London. |
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1816 |
Prosecution of William Home, tried in 1817. |
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