The Peterloo Massacre (In Our Time)
1819 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, a defining moment of its age. In 1819 Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote: 'I met Murder on the way He had a mask like Castlereagh Very smooth he looked, yet grim; Seven blood-hounds followed him: All were fat; and well they might Be in admirable plight, For one by one, and two by two, He tossed them human hearts to chew Which from his wide cloak he drew.'
On these timelines: In Our Time (BBC podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 1819
- Greek War of Independence (1821)
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Choral) (1824)
- Otto von Bismarck (1815)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Battle of Waterloo (1815)
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Napoleon's invasion of Russia (1812)
- Pride and Prejudice (1813)
- Karl Marx (1818)
- Stockton and Darlington Railway opens (1825)