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Two of Jane Austen's novels, Northanger Abbey and Persuasion, are published in the year after her death
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, a Gothic tale about giving life to an artificial man
Mary Anne Evans (known now as George Eliot) is born in the parish of Chilvers Coton in Warwickshire
William Cobbett brings back to England the bones of Thomas Paine, who died in the USA in 1809
Spain sells Florida to the USA for $5 million, in return for the waiving of any American claim to Texas
Magistrates order troops to fire on a crowd in Manchester, in what becomes known as the Peterloo massacre
Bolívar marches his army across the Andes, captures Bogotá and proclaims the republic of Gran Colombia
Byron begins publication in parts of his longest poem, Don Juan an epic satirical comment on contemporary life
The United Kingdom formally adopts the gold standard for its currency, after using it on a de facto basis since 1717
Walter Scott publishes Ivanhoe, a tale of love, tournaments and sieges at the time of the crusades
J.M.W. Turner makes the first of several visits to Venice, and discovers a rich seam of inspiration
The British king George III dies after 59 years on the throne – a longer reign than any of his predecessors
On the death of his father, George III, the Prince Regent succeeds to the British throne as George IV
The Eastern Question, concerning Turkey's ability to control its vast empire, becomes a persistent nineteenth-century theme
French physicist André Marie Ampère begins his researches into the links between electricity and magnetism
English poet John Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale, inspired by the bird's song in his Hampstead garden
A second liberal revolution in Spain ends with Ferdinand VII a prisoner of the Cortes in Cadiz
English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley publishes Ode to the West Wind, written mainly in a wood near Florence
The newly independent republic of Argentina takes possession of Las Islas Malvinas (the Falklands)
The first big influx of British settlers, numbering some 5000, arrives at Cape Town in South Africa
Russian poet Alexander Pushkin publishes his first long poem, Ruslan and Ludmilla
French painter Théodore Géricault begins a two-year visit to Britain
English painter John Constable acquires a house in Hampstead, a region of London that features frequently in his work
An uprising in Greece against Turkish rule is followed by the massacre of several thousand Muslims
English author Thomas De Quincey publishes his autobiographical Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
