| Date |
 |
Politics and Empire |
|
Art and Literature |
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| 1812-14 |
The 'War of 1812' between Britain and America |
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| 1816 |
|
Birth of John Frederick Kensett |
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| 1819 |
|
Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle. Birth of Martin Johnson Heade |
|
| 1820 |
Death of George III; accession of George IV |
Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow |
|
| 1821 |
|
William Cullen Bryant, Thanatopsis |
|
| 1823 |
|
James Fenimore Cooper, The Pioneers. Birth of Jasper F. Cropsey
Birth of Sanford Robinson Gifford
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|
| 1824 |
|
Opening of the Catskill Mountain House Hotel |
|
| 1825 |
Opening of the Erie Canal, linking the Hudson River
with Lake Erie, providing major trade route inland from New York |
Foundation of the National Academy of Design, New York |
|
| 1826 |
|
James Fenimore Cooper The Last of the Mohicans. Birth of Frederic Edwin Church |
|
| 1829 |
Andrew Jackson becomes President (to 1837) |
Foundation of the Sketch Club in New York. Thomas Cole visits London (to 1831) |
