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- | [[Image:The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Great Wave off Kanagawa]]'' (between [[1823]]-[[1829|29]], [[woodblock printing in Japan|woodblock printing]] by [[Hokusai]]]]{{Template}}http://www.jahsonic.com/1820s.html | + | [[Image:Ritterburg Felsenschloß (1828) by Karl Friedrich Lessing.jpg|thumb|left|200px|[[Ritterburg / Felsenschloß]] (1828) by [[Karl Friedrich Lessing]]]] |
+ | [[Image:Venus_Rising_from_the_Sea_—_A_Deception.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[Venus Rising from the Sea — A Deception]]'' (c. 1822) by American painter [[Raphaelle Peale]].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife (detail) by Hokusai.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife]]'' (detail, ca [[1820]]), [[shunga]] by [[Hokusai]]]] | ||
+ | [[Image:Der Abend.jpg |thumb|right|200px|''[[Evening|Der Abend]]'' ([[1820]]) by [[Caspar David Friedrich]]]] | ||
+ | [[Image:View from the Window at Le Gras.jpg|thumb|200px|''[[View from the Window at Le Gras]]'' is one of [[Nicéphore Niépce]]'s earliest surviving photographs, circa [[1826]].]] | ||
+ | [[Image:The Polar Sea.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Polar Sea]]'' ''(The [[destroyed]] [[hope]])'' ([[1824]]) by [[Caspar David Friedrich ]]]] | ||
+ | [[Image:The Great Wave off Kanagawa by Hokusai.jpg|thumb|right|200px|''[[The Great Wave off Kanagawa]]'' (between [[1823]]-[[1829|29]], [[woodblock printing in Japan|woodblock printing]] by [[Hokusai]]]] | ||
+ | [[Image:'Bologne to Rome' page in Stendhal's On Love.jpg|thumb|right|200px|[[Stendhal]]'s depiction of the process of [[falling in love]], from ''[[On Love (Stendhal) |On Love]]'', 1822]] | ||
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+ | The '''1820s''' decade ran from January 1, 1820, to December 31, 1829. The 1820s witnesses the birth of Romanticism with Victor Hugo's preface ''[[Cromwell (play)|Cromwell]]'' and the paintings of [[Delacroix]]. The 1820s sees also the birth of [[photography]]. | ||
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+ | == Popular culture == | ||
+ | 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 === | ||
+ | * [[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) | ||
+ | *In 1825 Thomas Rouse starts one of the first [[music hall]]s, the [[Eagle Tavern]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | ===Literature=== | ||
+ | *[[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]] introduced the concept of ''[[Weltliteratur]]'' | ||
+ | ====Fiction==== | ||
+ | *''[[Eugene Onegin]]'' (1825-1831) by Aleksandr Pushkin | ||
+ | *''[[Life of a Good-For-Nothing]]'', a novella by German writer Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff | ||
+ | *''[[On Love (Stendhal)|On Love]]'' (1822) by Stendhal | ||
+ | *''[[The Adventure of the German Student]]'' (1824) by Washington Irving | ||
+ | *''[[Cromwell (play)|Cromwell]]'' by Victor Hugo and its preface, considered a [[manifesto of Romanticism]] | ||
+ | *''[[Melmoth the Wanderer]]'' (1820) by Charles Maturin | ||
+ | *''[[Smarra, or The Demons of the Night]]'' (1821) by Charles Nodier | ||
+ | *''[[The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman]]'' (1827) by Jules Janin | ||
+ | *''[[Jud Süß (Hauff novel)|Jud Süß]]'' (1827) by Wilhelm Hauff | ||
+ | *''[[The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner]]'' (1824) by James Hogg | ||
+ | *''[[Trilby, ou le lutin d'Argail|Trilby]]'' by Charles Nodier | ||
+ | ====Non-fiction==== | ||
+ | *"[[The Artist, the Scientist and the Industrialist]]" (1825) by Olinde Rodrigues | ||
+ | *''[[De figuris Veneris]]'' (1824) by Friedrich Karl Forberg | ||
+ | *"[[On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition]]" (1827) by Walter Scott | ||
+ | *"[[Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts]]" by de Quincey | ||
+ | *''[[The Epicurean]]'' (1827) by Thomas Moore | ||
+ | *''[[Confessions of an English Opium-Eater]]'' (1821) by Thomas de Quincey | ||
+ | *''[[Physiologie du goût]]'' (1825) by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin | ||
+ | ===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' | ||
+ | *''[[Monomanies]]'', a series of ten paintings by Théodore Géricault | ||
+ | *[[Garden in Shoreham]] (1820s or early 1830s) - [[Samuel Palmer]] | ||
+ | *[[The Polar Sea]] (1824) - [[Caspar David Friedrich]] | ||
+ | *[[The Great Wave off Kanagawa]] - Hokusai | ||
+ | |||
+ | ==Births== | ||
+ | *[[Gustave Flaubert]] (1821 - 1880) | ||
+ | *[[Charles Baudelaire]] (1821 - 1867) | ||
+ | *[[Fyodor Dostoevsky]] (1821 - 1881) | ||
+ | *[[Matthew Arnold]] (1822 – 1888) | ||
+ | *[[Jean-Léon Gérôme]] (1824 - 1904) | ||
+ | *[[Wilkie Collins]] (1824 – 1889) | ||
+ | *[[Karl Heinrich Ulrichs]] (1825 – 1895) | ||
+ | *[[William-Adolphe Bouguereau]] (1825 - 1905) | ||
+ | *[[Gustave Moreau]] (1826 - 1898) | ||
+ | *[[Arnold Böcklin]] (1827 - 1901) | ||
+ | *[[Jules Verne]] (1828 - 1905) | ||
+ | |||
+ | |||
+ | == 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 === | ||
+ | * [[Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)]] | ||
+ | * [[Caucasian War]] (1817–1864) | ||
+ | * [[Java War]] (1825–1830) | ||
+ | * 1828 Siamese-Lao War: [[Thailand|Siam]] invades and [[sacks]] [[Vientiane]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Internal conflicts === | ||
+ | * The [[Radical War]] is fought in [[Scotland]]. | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Colonization === | ||
+ | * [[Americo-Liberian]]s begin to settle in the Colony of [[Liberia]] with the support of the [[American Colonization Society]] | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Decolonization and independence === | ||
+ | *Nationalistic independence helped reshape the world during this decade: | ||
+ | **Greece gains independence from the [[Ottoman Empire]] in the [[Greek War of Independence]] (1821–1827). | ||
+ | **Several countries declared their independence from Spain and Portugal: | ||
+ | *Mexico gains Independence from Spain after a bitter bloody war, leaving most of Mexico in ruins (1821) | ||
+ | ***The [[Republic of Gran Colombia]] under President [[Simón Bolívar]] (1819–1828) expands over South America | ||
+ | ***Mexico (1821) | ||
+ | ***[[Brazil]] (1822) | ||
+ | |||
+ | === Prominent political events === | ||
+ | * The [[United Provinces of Central America]] were formed in 1823. | ||
+ | * [[Temperance movement]] emerges in U.S. | ||
+ | |||
+ | == Economics == | ||
+ | * United States (1825) The [[Erie Canal]] opens – passage from [[Albany, New York]] to [[Lake Erie]] and the [[Ohio and Erie Canal]] is dug to extend settlement access and commercial traffic to the [[Ohio River]]. | ||
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The 1820s decade ran from January 1, 1820, to December 31, 1829. The 1820s witnesses the birth of Romanticism with Victor Hugo's preface Cromwell and the paintings of Delacroix. The 1820s sees also the birth of photography.
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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.
Music
- Beethoven's Ninth Symphony premiers on May 7, 1824 in the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna.
- Schubert's string quartet Death and the Maiden (1824)
- In 1825 Thomas Rouse starts one of the first music halls, the Eagle Tavern.
Literature
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe introduced the concept of Weltliteratur
Fiction
- Eugene Onegin (1825-1831) by Aleksandr Pushkin
- Life of a Good-For-Nothing, a novella by German writer Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff
- On Love (1822) by Stendhal
- The Adventure of the German Student (1824) by Washington Irving
- Cromwell by Victor Hugo and its preface, considered a manifesto of Romanticism
- Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) by Charles Maturin
- Smarra, or The Demons of the Night (1821) by Charles Nodier
- The Dead Donkey and the Guillotined Woman (1827) by Jules Janin
- Jud Süß (1827) by Wilhelm Hauff
- The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824) by James Hogg
- Trilby by Charles Nodier
Non-fiction
- "The Artist, the Scientist and the Industrialist" (1825) by Olinde Rodrigues
- De figuris Veneris (1824) by Friedrich Karl Forberg
- "On the Supernatural in Fictitious Composition" (1827) by Walter Scott
- "Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts" by de Quincey
- The Epicurean (1827) by Thomas Moore
- Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) by Thomas de Quincey
- Physiologie du goût (1825) by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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'
- Monomanies, a series of ten paintings by Théodore Géricault
- Garden in Shoreham (1820s or early 1830s) - Samuel Palmer
- The Polar Sea (1824) - Caspar David Friedrich
- The Great Wave off Kanagawa - Hokusai
Births
- Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)
- Charles Baudelaire (1821 - 1867)
- Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)
- Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824 - 1904)
- Wilkie Collins (1824 – 1889)
- Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825 – 1895)
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825 - 1905)
- Gustave Moreau (1826 - 1898)
- Arnold Böcklin (1827 - 1901)
- Jules Verne (1828 - 1905)
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
- Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)
- Caucasian War (1817–1864)
- Java War (1825–1830)
- 1828 Siamese-Lao War: Siam invades and sacks Vientiane.
Internal conflicts
- The Radical War is fought in Scotland.
Colonization
- Americo-Liberians begin to settle in the Colony of Liberia with the support of the American Colonization Society
Decolonization and independence
- Nationalistic independence helped reshape the world during this decade:
- Greece gains independence from the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence (1821–1827).
- Several countries declared their independence from Spain and Portugal:
- Mexico gains Independence from Spain after a bitter bloody war, leaving most of Mexico in ruins (1821)
- The Republic of Gran Colombia under President Simón Bolívar (1819–1828) expands over South America
- Mexico (1821)
- Brazil (1822)
Prominent political events
- The United Provinces of Central America were formed in 1823.
- Temperance movement emerges in U.S.
Economics
- United States (1825) The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie and the Ohio and Erie Canal is dug to extend settlement access and commercial traffic to the Ohio River.
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