1810S

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Events and Trends

World leaders

Events and Trends

★ End of the Napoleonic Wars in Europe (1803 - 1815).

★ The North American War of 1812 between the United States and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The war lasted until the beginning of 1815.

★ The Luddites (1811 - 1816) in Britain were machine-wreckers, protesting against machines perceived as taking their jobs.

★ The Spanish colony of New Granada declares independence as the Republic of Gran Colombia under President Simón Bolívar (1819 - 1828).

★ The Congress of Vienna reshapes the map of Europe after the defeat of Napoleon and introduces a policy of reaction and restoration throughout Europe (1814-1815)

★ This is the only decade after the 1770s in which no past or future President of the United States was either born or died.

★ Gas lighting becomes a practical technology and is implemented in cities in Europe and the United States.

★ Edgar Allan Poe, an American poet, is born in 1809

★ Gothic genre is popular (used by Poe)

World leaders

★ Emperor Francis II (Austria)

★ Chancellor Klemens Wenzel von Metternich (Austria)

★ King Frederick William III of Prussia (Prussia)

★ Jiaqing Emperor (China)

★ Emperor Napoleon I (First French Empire)

★ King Louis XVIII (Restoration France)

★ Pope Pius VII

★ Emperor Alexander I (Russia)

★ King Ferdinand VII (Spain)

★ King George III (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland), with his son as regent (see English Regency).

★ President James Madison (United States)

★ President James Monroe (United States)

★ Fath Ali Shah of Qajar dynasty (Persia)