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| 1814 |
| | | Britain and the United States sign the Treaty of Ghent, ending the War of 1812 | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Napoleon reaches Paris, already accompanied by an enthusiastic regiment that has joined him on his journey north | |
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| 1822 |
| | | Egyptian hieroglyphs are deciphered by French Egyptologist Jean François Champollion, using the Rosetta stone | |
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| 1832 |
| | | The Göta canal is completed, enabling ships to cross Scandinavia from the North Sea to the Baltic | |
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| 1832 |
| | | English author Frances Trollope ruffles transatlantic feathers with her Domestic Manners of the Americans, based on a 3-year stay | |
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| 1835 |
| | | Alexis de Tocqueville publishes in French the first two volumes of his extremely influential study Democracy in America | |
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| c. 1835 |
| | | English artist Edward Lear begins a series of travels, sketching around the Mediterranean and in the Middle East | |
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| 1837 |
| | | In The American Scholar Ralph Waldo Emerson urges his student audience to heed their own intellectuals rather than those of Europe | |
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| c. 1846 |
| | | The Irish, fleeing from the potato famine at home, become the main group of immigrants to the USA | |
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| 1847 |
| | | Camillo Benso di Cavour founds a newspaper in north Italy and calls it Il Risorgimento ('The Resurgence') | |
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