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1809 |
Elizabeth Hamilton, Exercises in Religious Knowledge. |
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1809 |
Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming. |
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1809 |
J. C. Hobhouse, Imitations and Translations from the Ancient and Modern Classics (includes 9 poems by Byron), Travels through Albania. |
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1809 |
Blake's first and only one-man show of 16 paintings held in his brother's shop, featuring heroic-satiric allegories of Pitt and Nelson and a huge painting The Ancient Britons; exhibit accompanied by A Descriptive Catalogue. |
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1809 |
The Quarterly Review, the chief Tory establishment journal, is founded: William Gifford, editor; published by John Murray
(Byron's future publisher). |
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1809 |
Another New York production of Joanna Baillie's De Monfort. The play is published in New York (based on the version in the first edition of the Plays on the Passions, Vol. I) with notes that the play was produced in New York and Drury Lane. |
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1809 |
Publication of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Op. 67; Trios in D major and E flat major, Op. 70; and Sixth Symphony, Op. 68. |
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1809 |
Beethoven, Fifth Piano Concerto in E flat major, Op. 73 and String Quartet in E flat major, Op. 74. |
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1809 |
Gaspare Spontini, Fernand Cortez. |
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1809 |
The Missionary Society become the London Society for the Promotion of Christianity Amongst the Jews. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
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1809 |
Publication of a very important anti-slavery volume, Poems on the abolition of the slave trade, written by James Montgomery, James Grahame, and E. Benger. Embellished with engravings from pictures painted by R. Smirke, edited by Robert Bowyer. |
*Abolition |
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1809 - 1810 |
Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op. 81a and incidental music to Goethe's Egmont, Op 84. |
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1809 - 1818 |
Jean Charles Léonard Simonde de Sismondi, economist and historian, publishes his 16-volume Histoire des republiques Italiennes du moyen age. |
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Feb 12, 1809 |
Charles Darwin born. |
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Mar 1, 1809 |
Beethoven's agreement from Austrian princes that grants him a salary of 4000 florins in exchange for his devoting his attention to composing music. This agreement follows Beethoven's decline of patronage from Napoleon's brother Jerome. |
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Mar 9, 1809 |
Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers
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May 11, 1809 |
French bombard Vienna. |
*French Revolution
*Austria |
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May 12, 1809 |
Vienna falls to the French. |
*Austria
*French Revolution |
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June 1, 1809 |
W. Wordsworth's pamphlet "Convention of Cintra." |
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June 1, 1809 - Mar 15, 1810 |
Coleridge's journal The Friend. |
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June 8, 1809 |
Thomas Paine dies. |
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Aug 6, 1809 |
Alfred, Lord Tennyson born. |
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Sept 21, 1809 |
Canning-Castlereagh duel; Perceval ministry. |
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1810 |
George III recognized as insane. |
*House of Hanover |
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1810 |
The Portuguese agree, under British pressure, to abolish the slave trade gradually. The revolutionary government of Caracas proclaims
abolition. Mexican revolutionaries proclaim emancipation. Guadeloupe, St. Martin, Bourbon, and the Ile de France are captured by the British. Sugar prices rise. The slave trade shows signs of new vigor. |
*Abolition
*France
*Colonialism |
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