1810s
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With the early 19th century Disasters of War, Goya continued a tradition set in motion by French 17th artist Jacques Callot with his The Miseries and Disasters of War, both of them criticizing the horrors of war in their art
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Art and culture
- The Great Odalisque (1814) Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
- Saturn Devouring His Son (1819) - Francisco de Goya
- Disasters of War by Goya
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Literature
Lord Byron, regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, wrote his most well-known work during this decade. Amongst Byron's works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan.
Other events in literature:
- December 20, 1812 - The first volume of Grimm's Fairy Tales is published.
- January 28, 1813 – Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published.
- September, 1813 – Robert Southey becomes Poet Laureate of Britain.
- 1814: Sir Walter Scott writes Waverley.
- 1817: Samuel Taylor Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria.
- January 1, 1818 – Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is published.
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Theater
- 1818: Old Vic founded (as Royal Coburg Hall).
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Music
- April 27, 1810 – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
- January 24, 1813 – The Philharmonic Society founded in London (later the Royal Philharmonic Society).
- February 20, 1816 – Gioachino Rossini's The Barber of Seville debuts at Teatro Argentina, with a fiasco.
- December 24, 1818 – Silent Night composed by Franz Xaver Gruber and Josef Mohr.
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Other
- November 10, 1810 – Berners Street Hoax: Theodore Hook manages to attract dozens of people to 54 Berners Street in London.
- The start of the Romantic era, which lasts until the mid-to-late 1850s and the beginning of the Victorian era.
- 1817: Elgin Marbles are displayed in the British Museum.
- 1818: The first edition of the Farmer's Almanac is published.
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Births
- Alfred de Musset (1810 - 1857)
- Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)
- Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- Sheridan Le Fanu (1814 - 1873)
- Karl Marx (1818 - 1883)
- Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877)
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- Herman Melville (1819 - 1891)
- Jacques Offenbach (1819 - 1880)
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Deaths
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See also
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