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1820 |
Sir Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, The Abbott, The Monastery. |
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1820 |
James Catnach, Street Ballads. |
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1820 |
William Hazlitt, Lectures on the Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth. |
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1820 |
Blake's pictures: woodcuts for Thornton's Virgil; poem/pictures On Homer's Poetry and On Virgil issued for first time. |
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1820 |
Sir Walter Scott knighted. |
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1820 |
London Magazine and John Bull founded. |
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1820 |
Gideon Mantell and William Buckland discover dinosaur remains. |
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1820 |
Edinburgh's Theatre Royal produces Joanna Baillie's Constantine Paleologus and De Monfort, while Edmund Kean plays in the lead in the New York production of De Monfort. |
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1820 |
Beethoven, Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 109 |
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1820 |
John Cam Hobhouse makes the first proposal to Parliament to remove restrictions against Jews. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
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1820 - 1822 |
Charles Lambs's Essays of Elia published in London Magazine. |
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Jan 29, 1820 |
Accession of George IV, previously Prince Regent. |
*House of Hanover |
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May 1820 |
Mary Shelley sends her finished novelette
Mathilda to her father, William Godwin, asking him to have it published, which he never did; the work was not published until 1957. See May 1819. |
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Aug 17, 1820 |
The Trial of Queen Caroline to prove her infidelities so that George IV can divorce her begins. George tries to divorce her by securing a Bill of Pains and Penalities; the queen is virtually acquitted because the bill is passed by such a small majority of Lords. |
*House of Hanover |
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Oct 1820 - July 1821 |
Winthrop Praed publishes the Etonian. |
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1821 |
The Republic of Naples crushed by Austrian troops in support of Bourbons. |
*France |
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1821 |
Greek war of liberation (from the Ottoman Empire) begins. |
*Greece |
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1821 |
P. B. Shelley, "Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats" and "Epipsychidion." |
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1821 |
Byron, The Prophecy of Dante, Don Juan III-V (see August 1821). |
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1821 |
Byron, Sardanapalus, Cain,Marino Faliero (flops in London), The Two Foscari. |
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1821 |
Byron, The Vision of Judgement (a poem written retalliating against Robert Southey's "A Vision of Judgement," which attacked "the Satanic School"). |
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1821 |
Felicia Hemans, Superstition and Error, Dartmoor, a second edition of The Skeptic. |
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1821 |
Joanna Baillie, Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters. |
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1821 |
John Clare, The Village Minstrel. |
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1821 |
Letitia Landon, The Fate of Adelaide. |
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