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| 1821 |
| | | Napoleon dies on St Helena, after six years of captivity | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The merged Hudson's Bay Company now administers a territory stretching from the Great Lakes to the Pacific | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides | |
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| 1821 |
| | | The Spy, a romance set in the American Revolution, establishes the reputation of US author James Fenimore Cooper | |
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| 1821 |
| | | French physicist Augustin Jean Fresnel publishes the theory that light is a transverse wave, thus explaining polarization effects | |
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| 1821 |
| | | Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischutz has its premiere in Berlin | |
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| 1821 |
| | | San Martín enters Lima and proclaims Peruvian independence with himself as 'Protector' | |
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| 1821 |
| | | Bolívar defeats the Spanish at Carabobo and liberates, for the second time, his native city of Caracas | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English author William Hazlitt publishes Table Talk, a two-volume collection that includes most of his best-known essays | |
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