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The Regent holds a grand fête at Carlton House in honour of the Duke of Wellington (21 July).

  George Stephenson builds the first working steam locomotive (25 July).

  The official Peace celebrations begin in Hyde Park (1 August).

  Princess Caroline departs England for an extended tour of Europe.

  The Congress of Vienna begins (1 November).

  England and America sign the Treaty of Ghent (24 December).

  Scott publishes Waverley.

  Byron publishes The Corsair.

  Wordsworth publishes The Excursion.

  The Shelleys leave England.

  Edmund Kean appears as Shylock in his debut at Drury Lane.

  Cricket is played for the first time by the MCC at Lord’s.

  1815: Napoleon escapes from Elba.

  Napoleon arrives in France (1 March).

  Louis XVIII flees from Paris (19 March).

  The Hundred Days begins with Napoleon’s entry into Paris (20 March).

  The Corn Law is passed (23 March).

  Anti-Corn Law riots in London (March).

  An alliance is formed between Britain, Prussia, Russia and Austria to fight against Napoleon (25 March).

  Otto von Bismarck born (1 April).

  Anthony Trollope born (24 April).

  The Congress of Vienna begins (9 June).

  The Duchess of Richmond’s ball in Brussels (15 June).

  The Battles of Ligny and Quatre Bras (16 June).

  Wellington’s army defeats Napoleon’s troops at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June).

  The Congress of Vienna ends (19 June).

  Napoleon abdicates (22 June).

  The Allies enter Paris (7 July).

  Louis XVIII returns to Paris (8 July).

  Napoleon is banished to St Helena (17 August).

  Humphrey Davy invents the safety lamp for miners.

  John Macadam’s road-construction technique is adopted in England.

  John Nash begins the renovation of the Brighton Pavilion.

  Scott publishes Guy Mannering.

  John Macadam publishes The Present State of Roadmaking.

  Lord Byron marries Ann Isabella Milbanke.

  The Apothecaries Act is passed making it illegal for unqualified apothecaries to practise medicine.

  1816: Charlotte Brontë born (21 April).

  Princess Charlotte marries Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg (2 May).

  Beau Brummell leaves England for exile in France (17 May).

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan dies (17 July).

  Spa Fields Riots (2 December).

  The Elgin Marbles are bought by the British Museum.

  The Duke of Clarence’s mistress, Mrs Jordan, dies.

  The Corn Law riots; wheat again approaches famine prices.

  Austen’s Emma published; it is dedicated, by invitation, to the Prince Regent.

  William Cobbett publishes his famous Twopenny Trash.

  John Keats publishes his sonnet ‘On Looking into Chapman’s Homer’ (December).

  Coleridge publishes Christabel and Other Poems.

  Coleridge publishes Kubla Khan.

  Shelley publishes Alastor.

  Scott publishes Old Mortality and The Antiquary.

  1817: The Prince Regent is shot at while returning from the opening of Parliament (28 January).

  Habeas Corpus is suspended (4 March).

  James Monroe becomes fifth president of the US (4 March).

  Madame de Staël dies (14 July).

  Jane Austen dies (18 July).

  Princess Charlotte dies in child-bed (6 November).

  Keats publishes his Poems.

  Coleridge publishes Biographia Literaria.

  Thomas Love Peacock publishes Melincourt.

  Blackwood’s Magazine founded.

  The Scotsman founded.

  1818: Habeas Corpus restored (31 January).

  Matthew ‘Monk’ Lewis dies (14 May).

  William, Duke of Clarence, marries Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen.

  Edward, Duke of Kent, marries Victoria Mary Louisa, widow of the Prince of Leiningen.

  Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, marries Augusta of Hesse-Cassel.

  Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus.

  Scott publishes Rob Roy and The Heart of Midlothian.

  Keats publishes Endymion.

  Austen’s Northanger Abbey and Persuasion published posthumously.

  Thomas Bowdler publishes his ‘sanitised’ Shakespeare.

  1819: Princess Alexandrina Victoria (later Queen Victoria) is born to the Duke and Duchess of Kent (24 May).

  The Peterloo Massacre at St Peter’s Fields, Manchester (16 August).

  James Watt dies at Heathfield aged eighty-three (19 August).

  Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria born (26 August).

  George Eliot (aka Mary Ann Evans) born (22 November).

  British Parliament passes the Six Acts (17 December).

  Byron publishes Don Juan.

  Keats publishes Ode to a Nightingale.

  Scott publishes Ivanhoe.

  1820: George III dies at Windsor (29 January).

  The Prince Regent is proclaimed King George IV at Carlton House (31 January).

  The Cato Street conspirators arrested while planning to murder the Cabinet (23 February).

  Five of the Cato Street conspirators executed (1 May).

  George IV’s wife, Queen Caroline, returns to England from Europe.

  Queen Caroline’s trial for adultery (June).

  Bill of Pains and Penalties against George IV’s wife, Queen Caroline, introduced into Parliament (6 July).

  Bill against Queen Caroline fails.

  Shelley publishes Prometheus Unbound.

  Keats publishes Isabella and Other Poems.

  Keats sails for Italy.

  1821: Napoleon dies (5 May).

  George IV’s coronation at Westminster Abbey (19 July).

  Queen Caroline is refused admittance to the Abbey.

  Queen Caroline dies (7 August).

  Pierce Egan publishes Life in London.

  Thomas Malthus publishes Principles of Political Economy.

  John Constable exhibits The Hay Wain.

  Keats dies.

  1830: George IV dies (26 June).

  Appendix 5

  Reading about the Regency and Where Next?

  Aiken Hodge, Jane, Passion and Principle: The Loves and Lives of Regency Women, John Murray, London, 1996.

  Aiken Hodge, Jane, The Private World of Georgette Heyer, Heinemann, London, 1984.

  Austen Jane, Jane Austen’s Selected Letters, Vivien Jones (ed.), Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1994.

  Austen, Jane, My Dear Cassandra, Penelope Hughes-Hallett (ed.), Collins & Brown, London, 1991.

  Bovill, E. W., English Country Life 1780–1830, Oxford University Press, London, 1962.

  Burgess, Anthony, Coaching Days of England, Paul Elek, London, 1966.

  Burnett, T. A. J., The Rise and Fall of a Regency Dandy: the Life and Times of Scrope Berdmore Davies, Murray, London, 1981.

  Burton, Elizabeth, The Georgians at Home, Arrow Books, London, 1973.

  Cecil, David, A Portrait of Jane Austen, Penguin Books, Middlesex, 1980.

  Cunnington, C. Willett and Phillis, Handbook of English Costume in the 19th Century, Faber and Faber, London, 1973.

  David, Saul, Prince of Pleasure, Abacus, London, 1999.

  Egan, Pierce, Life in London, John Camden Hotten, London, 1821.

  Ford, John, Prizefighting: The Age of Regency Boximania, David & Charles, Newton Abbot, 1971.

  Fullerton, Susannah, Jane Austen and Crime, Jane Austen Society of Australia, Sydney, 2004.

  Girouard, Mark, Life in the English Country House, A Social and Architectural History, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1979.

  Gronow, Captain, Selections from the Reminiscences of Captain Gronow, Nicholas Bentley, ed., The Folio Society, London, 1977.

  Hibbert,