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* [[November 10]], 1810 – [[Berners Street Hoax]]: [[Theodore Hook]] manages to attract dozens of people to 54 Berners Street in [[London]]. * [[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]]. * The start of the [[Romantic era]], which lasts until the mid-to-late [[1850s]] and the beginning of the [[Victorian era]].
-* 1815: [[First-class cricket]] begins. 
* 1817: [[Elgin Marbles]] are displayed in the [[British Museum]]. * 1817: [[Elgin Marbles]] are displayed in the [[British Museum]].
* 1818: The first edition of the [[Farmer's Almanac]] is published. * 1818: The first edition of the [[Farmer's Almanac]] is published.

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Image:Horrors of war by Goya.jpg
Disasters of War (1810s) by Francisco de Goya
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

Image:Jupiter and Thetis.jpg
Jupiter and Thetis (1811) by Ingres, Thetis is depicted in the painting by Ingres as pleading at the knees of Zeus: "She sank to the ground beside him, put her left arm round his knees, raised her right hand to touch his chin, and so made her petition to the Royal Son of Cronos" (Iliad, I).

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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.

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  • 1818: Old Vic founded (as Royal Coburg Hall).

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