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1821
 
    
The Sante Fe Trail, from Missouri to New Mexico, is opened up by the US trader William Becknell       
1821
 
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The Cortes in Lisbon passes a liberal constitution which they persuade the king, John VI, to accept      
1821
 
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Edmund Kean gives his snuff box to an admirer, as a souvenir of his Richard III See in Google maps   
Kean's snuff box, showing him as Richard III
Museum of Richmond
1821
 
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The American Colonization Society buys the area later known as Liberia to settle freed slaves      
1821
 
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Stephen Austin begins the process of American settlement in the Mexican province of Texas       
1822
 
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Egyptian hieroglyphs are deciphered by French Egyptologist Jean François Champollion, using the Rosetta stone        
1822
 
    
George Canning becomes the British foreign secretary for the second time, in Lord Liverpool's government       
1822
 
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After defeating the Spanish at Pichincha, Antonio José de Sucre enters Quito and liberates Ecuador        
1822
 
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Agustin de Iturbide declares himself emperor of the new nation of Mexico, as Agustin I      
1822
 
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George IV wears a tartan kilt when visiting Edinburgh, and launches a new craze for Highland dress