1800–1809
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The Madrilene rebels who fought the Napoleonic invaders on 2 May 1808 were executed there on the morning of 3 May, as painted by Francisco de Goya.
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Performing arts
- A phantasmagoria production by Paul de Philipsthal opened in London’s Lyceum Theatre in the Strand, where it became a smash hit.
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Literature
- The Crimes of Love (1800)
- Justine, Juliette: 1801: The Marquis de Sade and his publisher were both arrested by the Minister of Police in 1801 for writing and publishing Justine, and the "still more terrible work, Juliette."
- Die Marquise von O
- Goethe's Faust, part I
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Visual art
- The Colossus (c. 1810-12) - Francisco de Goya
- Scène du Déluge (1806) - Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson
- Oedipus and the Sphinx by Ingres
- Satan Watching the Endearments of Adam and Eve by William Blake
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Social sciences
- Théorie des quatre mouvements by Fourier
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Technology
- Fourdrinier machine patent granted
- Invention of the Jacquard loom in 1801.
- Morphine is isolated from opium for the first time in 1804.
- Paper is first produced cheaply by using wood pulp.
- Nicolas François Appert develops a method to preserve food by means of canning.
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Births
- Achille Devéria
- Constantin Guys
- Victor Hugo
- Grandville
- Eugène Sue
- Jules Gay
- Gérard de Nerval
- Honoré Daumier
- Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly
- Nikolai Gogol
- Edgar Allan Poe
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