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Turner |
Cultural and Political Events |
| 1815 |
Turner exhibits Dido building Carthage at the National Gallery. |
Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo and is banished to St Helena. |
| 1817 |
Turner exhibits The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire at the Royal Academy,
the companion picture to
Dido Building Carthage.
Visits the battlefield at Waterloo. |
Opening of Waterloo Bridge.
Opening
of Waterloo Bridge, exhibited 1832
John Constable
© Tate, London 2002 |
| 1818 |
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein. |
| 1819 |
Turner's first visit to Italy. |
The Peterloo Massacre in Manchester; 11 protestors demanding parliamentary reform are killed.
Birth of John Ruskin |
| 1820 |
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Revolution in Spain.
Death of George III; accession of Prince Regent as George IV.
Discovery of the Venus de Milo. |
| 1821 |
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Death of Napoleon.
Beginning of the Reign of Terror between the Greeks and the Turks.
Champollion deciphers Egyptian hierorglyphics with the aid of the Rossetta stone.
Constable exhibits The Haywain.
Death of John Keats |
| 1822 |
Turner's new gallery opens in Queen Anne Street West.
Turner is commissioned by George IV to paint a large picture of the Battle of Trafalgar. |
Percy Bysshe Shelley drowns in the Bay of Spezzia. |
| 1823 |
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Construction begins on the British Museum.
Francis Ronalds invents the electric telegraph. |
| 1824 |
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Death of Lord Byron. |
| 1825 |
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World's first passenger railway opens between Stockton and Darlington. |
| 1827 |
Turner visits Petworth in Sussex, the home of the third Earl of Egremont (1751-1837). |
Deaths of William Blake and Ludwig van Beethoven. |
| 1828 |
Turner's second visit to Italy.
Last series of Turner's six perspective lectures.
Turner begins a commission for the carved room at Petworth. |
The Duke of Wellington becomes Prime Minister. |
| 1829 |
Death of Turner's father.
Turner begins to stay with Sophia Caroline Booth at Margate. |
Catholic Emancipation Act in Britain; Catholics allowed to stand for Parliament and to hold public office.
First horse-drawn buses appear in London. |
