1814
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"In 1814 The Times in London was for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the begin of making newspapers available to a mass audience."--Sholem Stein |
The Madrilene rebels who fought the Napoleonic invaders on 2 May 1808 were executed there on the morning of 3 May, as painted by Francisco de Goya.
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Art and culture
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Technology
- In 1814 The Times in London was for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the begin of making newspapers available to a mass audience
- The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife by Hokusai
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Visual arts
- Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres paints The Great Odalisque, it is first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1819.
- Francisco Goya paints The Third of May 1808.
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Literature
- Fantasy Pieces in Callot's Manner, a collection of previously published tales by E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Sir Walter Scott publishes Waverley
- Jane Austen's Mansfield Park was published anonymously.
- Robert Southey published Roderick, the Last of the Goths
- An English translation of Dante's Divine Comedy appeared
- On July 28 Percy Shelley and Mary Godwin (Mary Shelley) eloped.
- Peter Schlemihl's Remarkable Story by French author Adelbert von Chamisso
- Symbolism of Dreams by G. H. von Schubert
- History of Fiction by John Colin Dunlop
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Births
- Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (d. 1879)
- Mikhail Bakunin, Russian anarchist (d. 1876)
- Sheridan le Fanu, Irish writer (d. 1873)
- Jean-François Millet, French painter (d. 1875)
- Mikhail Lermontov, Russian writer (d. 1841)
- Adolphe Sax, Belgian instrument maker and inventor (d. 1894)
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Deaths
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)
- Marquis de Sade, French writer (b. 1740)
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