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| 1810 |
| | | After a public meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentinians set up an autonomous local government in opposition to Spanish forces | |
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| 1810 |
| | | The Spanish Cortes flees from the renewed French invasion and establishes itself in Cadiz | |
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| 1810 |
| | | José Gervasio Artigas lays siege to the Spanish forces in Montevideo, beginning Uruguay's long struggle for independence | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Walter Scott's poem Lady of the Lake brings tourists in unprecedented numbers to Scotland's Loch Katrine | |
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| 1810 |
| | | The citizens of Bogotá expel the local Spanish officials and declare their loyalty to the deposed Ferdinand VII | |
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| 1810 |
| | | A French marshal, Jean Bernadotte, is offered the position of crown prince and heir to the Swedish throne | |
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| 1810 |
| | | The parish priest of Dolores sparks a rebellion against the Spanish authorities in Mexico with his Grito de Dolores | |
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| 1810 |
| | | 16-year-old future millionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt begins his career by establishing a ferry service to Manhattan | |
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| 1810 |
| | | Chile begins four years of untroubled independence, ruled by a junta introducing liberal reforms | |
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| 1811 |
| | | The British king George III, suffering from porphyria, is deemed unfit to govern and his eldest son becomes Prince Regent | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Work begins at Cumberland in Maryland on the construction of America's National Road | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Marie Louise gives birth to a boy, Napoleon's longed-for heir, to be known as the King of Rome | |
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| 1811 |
| | | A 12-year-old Dorset child, Mary Anning, discovers at Lyme Regis a 21 ft (6.4m) fossil of an icthyosaur | |
|  | Fossil of Plesiosaurus dolichodeirus, a marine reptile
Natural History Museum, London
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| 1811 |
| | | All but one of 300 Mameluke guests are assassinated during an entertainment by Muhammad Ali in Cairo | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Italian chemist Amedeo Avogadro publishes a hypothesis, about the number of molecules in gases, that becomes known as Avogadro's Law | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from Oxford university for circulating a pamphlet with the title The Necessity of Atheism | |
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| 1811 |
| | | English author Jane Austen publishes her first work in print, Sense and Sensibility, at her own expense | |
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| 1811 |
| | | Masked Luddites smash machinery in night raids on factories in Nottingham | |
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| 1811 |
| | | John Jacob Astor establishes Astoria, a settlement on the Pacific coast to develop his fur trade with China | |
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| 1811 |
| | | The citizens of Bogotá declare the independence of the province of Colombia | |
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| 1811 |
| | | The colonists of Paraguay throw out their Spanish governor and declare independence | |
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| 1811 |
| | | An American army attacks and destroys Tecumseh's base at Prophetstown | |
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| 1812 |
| | | French scientist Georges Cuvier introduces scientific palaeontology with his Research on the Fossil Bones of Quadrupeds | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Lord Castlereagh becomes British foreign secretary in Spencer Perceval's government | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Britain's first primary school is established by Robert Owen at New Lanark in Scotland | |
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| 1812 |
| | | The British prime minister, Spencer Perceval, is assassinated in the lobby of the House of Commons by John Bellingham | |
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| 1812 |
| | | After the death of Perceval, Lord Liverpool begins a 15-year spell as Britain's prime minister | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Napoleon launches an attack on his ally, the Russian tsar Alexander I, with an army of more than 600,000 men | |
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| 1812 |
| | | The French author Stendhal serves in the French army during the invasion of Russia | |
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| 1812 |
| | | Damage to US trade by British orders in council prompts war (the War of 1812) between the two nations | |
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