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The '''1820s''' decade ran from January 1, 1820, to December 31, 1829. The '''1820s''' decade ran from January 1, 1820, to December 31, 1829.
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== Popular culture == == Popular culture ==
Events and trends include the first [[music hall]]s in the UK and the first photograph by [[Nicéphore Niépce]] in 1826. Events and trends include the first [[music hall]]s in the UK and the first photograph by [[Nicéphore Niépce]] in 1826.
 +*The use of the word "[[blue]]" to refer to [[risqué]] content was first recorded in Scotland in 1824.
=== Music === === Music ===
* [[Beethoven]]'s [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] premiers on May 7, 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna. * [[Beethoven]]'s [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Ninth Symphony]] premiers on May 7, 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna.
 +*Schubert's string quartet [[Death and the Maiden Quartet (Schubert)|Death and the Maiden]] (1824)
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 +*Eagle Tavern
 +**In 1825 Thomas Rouse started one of the first [[music hall]]s.
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===Literature=== ===Literature===
 +*[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] introduced the concept of ''[[Weltliteratur]]''
====Newly published==== ====Newly published====
 +*''[[The artist, the scientist and the industrialist]]''
 +*[[Eugene Onegin]] (1825-1831)
 +*''[[Life of a Good-For-Nothing]]''
 +*''[[On Love (Stendhal)|On Love]]'' by [[Stendhal]]
 +*''[[The German Student]]'' in ''[[Tales of a Traveler]]'' (1824) by [[Washington Irving]]
 +*''[[De Figuris Veneris]]''
 +*[[Walter Scott]] - "[[On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition]]"
 +*"[[Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts]]" by de Quincey
 +*''[[Cromwell (play)|Cromwell]]'' by Victor Hugo and its preface, considered a [[manifesto of Romanticism]]
*''[[Melmoth the Wanderer]]'' (1820) *''[[Melmoth the Wanderer]]'' (1820)
*''[[Confessions of an English Opium Eater]]'' (1821) *''[[Confessions of an English Opium Eater]]'' (1821)
 +*[[Thomas Moore]] [[The Epicurean]] (1827)
 +*''[[Jud Süß]]'' by [[Wilhelm Hauff]]
 +*''[[The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner]]'' by [[James Hogg]] (1824)
 +*''[[Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' by [[Thomas de Quincey]]
 +*''[[Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail|Trilby]]'' by [[Charles Nodier]]
 +*''[[Gaston de Blondeville]]'' by Ann Radcliffe published posthumously in 1826.
 +*[[Louis Pierre Prudent Legay]] (1744-1826), Eglai ou Amour et plaisir. Bruxelles, J.-J. Gay, 1883;
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===Visual art=== ===Visual art===
 +*[[The Great Wave off Kanagawa]] (1823-29)
 +*''[[Woman on a Balcony]]'' (Frau auf dem Söller) (1824) - [[Carl Gustav Carus]] (1789-1869)
 +*''[[The Polar Sea]]'' (1824) - Caspar David Friedrich
 +*[[Secret Museum, Naples]] - The `Cabinet of Obscene Objects' is renamed to `Reserved Cabinet'
 +*''Portrait of a Woman Suffering from Obsessive Envy'' by [[Théodore Géricault]] , see [[E._J._Georget#The_monomanies_series_by_G.C3.A9ricault|Géricault's monomaniacs]]
*[[Garden in Shoreham]] (1820s or early 1830s) - [[Samuel Palmer]] *[[Garden in Shoreham]] (1820s or early 1830s) - [[Samuel Palmer]]
*[[The Polar Sea]] (1824) - [[Caspar David Friedrich]] *[[The Polar Sea]] (1824) - [[Caspar David Friedrich]]
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*[[Jules Verne]] (1828 - 1905) *[[Jules Verne]] (1828 - 1905)
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 +== Technology ==
 +* World's first modern railway, the [[Stockton and Darlington Railway]], opens to the public in 1825.
 +* Invention of the photograph and the first still existing photograph taken in 1826.
 +*Karl Ernst von Baer discovers the human ovum
== Politics and wars == == Politics and wars ==
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* The [[United Provinces of Central America]] were formed in 1823. * The [[United Provinces of Central America]] were formed in 1823.
* [[Temperance movement]] emerges in U.S. * [[Temperance movement]] emerges in U.S.
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-== Technology == 
-* World's first modern railway, the [[Stockton and Darlington Railway]], opens to the public in 1825. 
-* Invention of the photograph and the first still existing photograph taken in 1826. 
== Economics == == Economics ==

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The 1820s decade ran from January 1, 1820, to December 31, 1829.


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Popular culture

Events and trends include the first music halls in the UK and the first photograph by Nicéphore Niépce in 1826.

  • The use of the word "blue" to refer to risqué content was first recorded in Scotland in 1824.

Music

  • Eagle Tavern
    • In 1825 Thomas Rouse started one of the first music halls.

Literature

Newly published

Visual art

Births


Technology

  • World's first modern railway, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, opens to the public in 1825.
  • Invention of the photograph and the first still existing photograph taken in 1826.
  • Karl Ernst von Baer discovers the human ovum

Politics and wars

Wars

Internal conflicts

Colonization

Decolonization and independence

  • Nationalistic independence helped reshape the world during this decade:
  • Mexico gains Independence from Spain after a bitter bloody war, leaving most of Mexico in ruins (1821)

Prominent political events

Economics



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