William Hazlitt (In Our Time)
1820 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the life and works of William Hazlitt. Hazlitt is best known for his essays, which ranged in subject matter from Shakespeare, through his first meeting with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, to a boxing match. What is less well-known, however, is that he began his writing life as a philosopher, before deliberately abandoning the field
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1820
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- 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)
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- Battle of Waterloo (British perspective) (1815)