Eminent Victorians (Strachey, 1918)
1820 · Resource
Strachey's four iconoclastic short biographies of Cardinal Manning, Florence Nightingale, Thomas Arnold, and General Gordon.
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Around 1820
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- First passenger railway opens (1825)
- Bolivar's liberation of South America (1819)
- Liverpool and Manchester Railway (1830)
- Stephenson's Rocket wins the Rainhill Trials (1829)
- Battle of Waterloo (British perspective) (1815)