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Events
- The first volume of The Devil's Elixirs by E. T. A. Hoffmann is published
- The final act of the Congress of Vienna is signed: A new European political situation is set.
- The Spanish Inquisition summons Francisco Goya to reveal who commissioned him to create the "obscene" La maja desnuda
- Schwester Monika, a novel attributed to E. T. A. Hoffmann
- Les Curieux en extase, ou les cordons de souliers
Births
- April 24 – Anthony Trollope, British author (d. 1882)
- November 12 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American women's rights activist (d. 1902)
- December 10 – Augusta Ada King (née Byron), Countess of Lovelace, early English computer pioneer and the daughter of Lord Byron (d. 1852)
- December 21 – Thomas Couture, French painter (d. 1879)
Deaths
- January 16 – Emma, Lady Hamilton, English mistress of Horatio Nelson (b. 1765)
- March 5 – Franz Mesmer, German developer of animal magnetism (b. 1734)
- March 8 – Jan Potocki, Polish writer (The Manuscript Found in Saragossa) (b. 1761)
- August 13 – James Gillray, British caricaturist (b. 1757)
- September 9 – John Singleton Copley, American painter (b. 1738)
- October 19 – Paolo Mascagni,anatomist (b. 1755)
- December 29 – Saartjie Baartman, sideshow performer
- Emmanuel-Jean-Nepomucène de Ghendt is a French engraver (b. 1735)
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