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1812 |
Felicia Browne (Hemans), The Domestic Affections, which probes the rigors of a domestic poetics in the context of world war. |
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1812 |
Walter Savage Landor, Count Julian; a Tragedy. |
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1812 |
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, Eighteen Hundsred and Eleven, a Poem. |
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1812 |
Blake's "heroic watercolor" Philoctetes and Neoptolemos on Lemnos; Blake exhibits specimens of Jerusalem at the Assoc. Painters exhibit. |
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1812 |
Germaine de Staël's De L'Allemagne confiscated by Napoleon. |
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1812 |
Sarah Siddons retires. |
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1812 |
Mrs. R. Addison, Poetry on Different Subjects. |
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1812 |
Publication of Beethoven's Mass in C Major, Op. 86. |
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1812 |
An Appeal to the Humanity of the English People on Behalf of the Jews published. |
*Anglo-Jewish History |
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1812 - 1813 |
Beethoven, Sonata in G major, Op. 96 |
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Feb 7, 1812 |
Charles Dickens born, Portsmouth, Hampshire. |
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Mar 1812 - Nov 1812 |
Period of Lady Caroline Lamb's affair with Byron |
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May 1812 |
Charles Lamb and Robinson patch up the quarrel between W. Wordsworth and Coleridge. |
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May 7, 1812 |
Robert Browning born, London. |
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June 1812 |
Napoleon invades Russia. |
*France |
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June 18, 1812 |
U.S. declares war on Great Britain. |
*United States |
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Oct 1812 - Dec 1812 |
Napoleon retreats from Moscow. |
*France |
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Oct 4, 1812 |
William Godwin and P. B. Shelley meet in London. |
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1813 |
The East India Company charter is altered to allow for missionary work in the colony. |
*India
*East India Company |
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1813 |
Sweden agrees to abolition on obtaining Guadeloupe from the British. |
*Abolition
*Colonialism |
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1813 |
The Battle of Lepzig; Napoleon defeated and in retreat. Wellington victorious in Peninsular
War; Spain liberated. Austria joins the alliance against France. |
*Spain
*France |
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1813 |
Sir Walter Scott, Rokeby and The Bridal of Triermain. |
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1813 |
Amelia Opie, Tales of Real Life. |
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1813 |
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, published anonymously (first version finished in 1797). |
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1813 |
Byron, The Giaour and The Bride of Abydos are sensational successes; Byron's The Waltz (anonymous) printed privately. |
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