1800s (decade)
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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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"As early as Napoleon's campaigns into Egypt the Orient fascinated Europe. It was Vivant Denon's Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt that would kick start Egyptomania." --Sholem Stein |
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Maja desnuda (executed some time between 1797 and 1800) by Francisco de Goya
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Events
- In 1801, Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of Justine and Juliette. Sade was arrested at his publisher's office and imprisoned without trial; first in the Sainte-Pélagie prison and, following allegations that he had tried to seduce young fellow prisoners there, in the harsh fortress of Bicêtre.
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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
- 1800 - Zoloé et ses deux acolythes by anonymous
- 1801 - Traité médico-philosophique sur l'aleniation mentale; ou la manie by Philippe Pinel
- 1802 - Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt by Vivant Denon
- 1803 - Le Diable au corps by Nerciat published posthumously
- 1804 - Nightwatches by Bonaventura
- 1805 - Rameau's Nephew by Denis Diderot first published
- 1806 - Dictionnaire des livres condamnés au feu by Gabriel Peignot
- 1807 - The Half-Length Bather by Ingres
- 1808 - Oedipus and the Sphinx by Ingres
- 1809 - The Tour of Dr. Syntax: In Search of the Picturesque begun by William Combe and Thomas Rowlandson
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Literature
- Die Marquise von O (1808), a novella by Heinrich von Kleist
- Goethe's Faust, part I, by Goethe
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Visual art
- The Colossus (c. 1810-12) by 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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