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1812
 
   
Today's Drury Lane Theatre opens      
1812
 
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Turner completes the building of his villa. Initially called Solus Lodge, the name is changed to Sandycombe Lodge a year later. See in Google maps   
1812
 
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French scientist Georges Cuvier introduces scientific palaeontology with his Research on the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds       
1812
 
    
Augustus Welby Pugin is born in London, the son of the architectural illustrator Augustus Charles Pugin       
Rosemary Hill, God's Architect, Penguin 2007

1812
 
    
Lord Castlereagh becomes British foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's government       
1812
 
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Britain's first primary school is established by Robert Owen at New Lanark in Scotland       
1812
 
    
The British prime minister, Spencer Perceval, is assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham       
Assassination of Perceval, hand-coloured print 1812
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1812
 
    
After the death of Perceval, Lord Liverpool begins a 15-year spell as Britain's prime minister       
1812
 
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Napoleon launches an attack on his ally, the Russian tsar Alexander I, with an army of more than 600,000 men        
1812
 
   
The French author Stendhal serves in the French army during the invasion of Russia