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1806
 
   
French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years      
Ingres Monsieur de Norvins (detail) 1812
National Gallery, London

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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       
1814
 
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The Jesuit Order is restored by Pius VII on his return to Rome       
1816
 
    
Rossini's opera The Barber of Seville has its premiere in Rome       
1821
 
   
English poet John Keats dies in Rome at the age of twenty-five      
Protestant cemetery in Rome, engraving after Walter Severn
Mary Evans Picture Library

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1842
 
    
English author Thomas Babington Macaulay publishes a collection of stirring ballads, Lays of Ancient Rome       
Thomas Macaulay, by John Partridge, c.1853
National Portrait Gallery, London

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1848
 
    
The prime minister of the papal states, Pellegrino Rossi, is assassinated in Rome       
1848
 
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An uprising in Rome causes Pope Pius IX to flee for safety to a coastal fortress at Gaeta      
1849
 
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Pope Pius IX returns to Rome under the protection of French troops, with his enthusiasm for any form of change much reduced.      
1853
 
    
Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore is a success at its premiere in Rome