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1802 |
Amelia Opie, Poems. |
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1802 |
The Edinburgh Review and William Cobbett's The Political Register are founded. |
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1802 |
Anne Bannerman, Tales of Superstition and Chivalry. |
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1802 |
Anne Home Hunter, Poems. |
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1802 |
Beethoven, Fifteen Variations in E flat major with a fugue, Op. 35. Publication of Beethoven's Septet in E flat major, Op. 20; Piano Sonata in C sharp minor (Sonata quasi una fantasia), Op. 27 No. 2. |
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1802 - 1803 |
Beethoven, Sonata in A major for piano and violin, Op. 47. |
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Mar 27, 1802 |
Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands. The "Peace of
Amiens," as it was known, brought a temporary peace of 14 months during the Napoleonic Wars. One of its most important cultural effects was that travel and correspondence across the English Channel became possible again. Many British authors, artists, and politicians visited France during this time. |
*France
*Spain |
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Mar 29, 1802 |
Thomas Campbell's copy of Joanna Baillie's De Monfort is extensively cut by Sarah Siddons. |
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Apr 1802 |
Coleridge, "Dejection: An Ode." |
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Apr 1802 |
Napoleon becomes Life Consul of France. |
*France |
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Apr 18, 1802 |
Erasmus Darwin dies in Derby. |
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July 26, 1802 |
Winthrop Mackworth Praed born in London. |
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Aug 1802 |
William and Dorothy Wordsworth visit Annette Vallon and Caroline in Calais, France. On this trip and immediately after, W. Wordsworth writes a sequence of political sonnets about England and France (later included in the section of his collected poems titled at various times "Sonnets Dedicated to Liberty" and "Poems Dedicated to National Independence and Liberty." Also from this trip: "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge." |
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Oct 4, 1802 |
William Wordsworth marries Mary Hutchinson at Gallow Hill. Dorothy Wordsworth, in a famous episode recorded in her Journals, does not attend the church ceremony but waits in the house. |
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Oct 6, 1802 - Oct 10, 1802 |
Beethoven, Heiligenstadt Testament. |
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1803 |
The soldier Scofield accuses Blake of uttering seditious threats against the King (while drunk, Scofield stumbled into Blake's yard and Blake threw him out). See Blake's trial. |
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1803 |
Sugar prices begin to rise again. |
*Colonialism
*Economics |
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1803 |
Invention of paper-making machine. |
*Printing |
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1803 |
Sydney Owenson (Lady Morgan), St. Clair (her first novel) |
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1803 |
Mary Hays, Female Biography: Memoirs of Illustrious and Celebrated Women of All Ages and Countries. |
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1803 |
Publication of Beethoven's Fifteen Variations in E flat major, Op. 35. |
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1803 - 1804 |
Beethoven, Third Symphony in E flat major (Sinfonia eroica), Op. 55; Piano Sonata in C major, Op. 53. |
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Apr 5, 1803 |
Performance of Beethoven's Chrisus am Olberge (Op. 85), First Symphony, Second Symphony, and the Third Piano Concerto. |
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Apr 30, 1803 |
Louisiana bought by U.S. from France. |
*France |
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May 12, 1803 |
Peace of Amiens ends; resumption of war with France. |
*France |
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