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| *''[[Woman on a Balcony]]'' (Frau auf dem Söller) (1824) - [[Carl Gustav Carus]] (1789-1869) | *''[[Woman on a Balcony]]'' (Frau auf dem Söller) (1824) - [[Carl Gustav Carus]] (1789-1869) | ||
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| *[[Secret Museum, Naples]] - The `Cabinet of Obscene Objects' is renamed to `Reserved Cabinet' | *[[Secret Museum, Naples]] - The `Cabinet of Obscene Objects' is renamed to `Reserved Cabinet' | ||
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| *[[Garden in Shoreham]] (1820s or early 1830s) - [[Samuel Palmer]] | *[[Garden in Shoreham]] (1820s or early 1830s) - [[Samuel Palmer]] | ||
| *[[The Polar Sea]] (1824) - [[Caspar David Friedrich]] | *[[The Polar Sea]] (1824) - [[Caspar David Friedrich]] | ||
| - | + | *''[[View from the Window at Le Gras]]'' (1826) by Nicéphore Niépce | |
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| *[[Gustave Flaubert]] (1821 - 1880) | *[[Gustave Flaubert]] (1821 - 1880) | ||
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The 1820s decade ran from January 1, 1820, to December 31, 1829. The 1820s witnesses the birth of Romanticism with Victor Hugo's preface Cromwell and the paintings of Delacroix. The 1820s sees also the birth of photography.
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Popular culture
Events and trends include the first music halls in the UK and the first photograph by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.
Music
- Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiers on May 7, 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna.
- Schubert's string quartet Death and the Maiden (1824)
- In 1825 Thomas Rouse starts one of the first music halls, the Eagle Tavern.
Literature
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur
Fiction
- Eugene Onegin (1825-1831) by Aleksandr Pushkin
- Life of a Good-For-Nothing, a novella by German writer Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
- On Love (1822) by Stendhal
- The Adventure of the German Student (1824) by Washington Irving
- Cromwell by Victor Hugo and its preface, considered a manifesto of Romanticism
- Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin
- Smarra, or The Demons of the Night (1821) by Charles Nodier
- The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman (1827) by Jules Janin
- Jud Süß (1827) by Wilhelm Hauff
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg
- Trilby by Charles Nodier
Non-fiction
- "The Artist, the Scientist and the Industrialist" (1825) by Olinde Rodrigues
- De figuris Veneris (1824) by Friedrich Karl Forberg
- "On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition" (1827) by Walter Scott
- "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" by de Quincey
- The Epicurean (1827) by Thomas Moore
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey
- The Physiology of Taste (1825) by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Visual art
- Woman on a Balcony (Frau auf dem Söller) (1824) - Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)
- Secret Museum, Naples - The `Cabinet of Obscene Objects' is renamed to `Reserved Cabinet'
- Start of the the The monomanies series by Géricault
- Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy (1822) by Théodore Géricault
- Garden in Shoreham (1820s or early 1830s) - Samuel Palmer
- The Polar Sea (1824) - Caspar David Friedrich
- View from the Window at Le Gras (1826) by Nicéphore Niépce
Births
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904)
- Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889)
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825 – 1895)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905)
- Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898)
- Arnold Böcklin (1827 - 1901)
- Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
Technology
- World's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens to the public in 1825.
- Invention of the photograph and the first still existing photograph taken in 1826.
- Karl Ernst von Baer discovers the human ovum
Politics and wars
Wars
- Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
- Caucasian War (1817–1864)
- Java War (1825–1830)
- 1828 Siamese-Lao War: Siam invades and sacks Vientiane.
Internal conflicts
- The Radical War is fought in Scotland.
Colonization
- Americo-Liberians begin to settle in the Colony of Liberia with the support of the American Colonization Society
Decolonization and independence
- Nationalistic independence helped reshape the world during this decade:
- Greece gains independence from the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence (1821–1827).
- Several countries declared their independence from Spain and Portugal:
- Mexico gains Independence from Spain after a bitter bloody war, leaving most of Mexico in ruins (1821)
- The Republic of Gran Colombia under President Simón Bolívar (1819–1828) expands over South America
- Mexico (1821)
- Brazil (1822)
Prominent political events
- Temperance movement emerges in U.S.
Economics
- United States (1825) The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie and the Ohio and Erie Canal is dug to extend settlement access and commercial traffic to the Ohio River.
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