1810s

Events

1810 : Frédéric Chopin and Robert Schumann are born.
1811 : Franz Liszt is born.
1812 : Napoleon's Russian campaign ; War between Great Britain and USA.
1813 : Beginning of the Wars of Liberation (Europe against Napoleon) and the Battle of the Nations near Leipzig .
1814 : Allies occupy Paris ; Napoleon is banished to Elba ; Beginning of the Congress of Vienna .

1815 : Napoleon's reign of the hundred days ; Battle of Waterloo ; second exile of Napoleon (to St. Helena ); Peace between Great Britain and the USA; Congress of Vienna ; Foundation of the German Confederation ; first fraternities .

Frédéric Chopin , Polish composer
Napoleon Bonaparte , French general and statesman
Louis XVIII , King of France
Marie-Joseph Motier, Marquis de La Fayette , French politician
Franz II , Emperor in Austria-Hungary, last Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire
Joseph Bonaparte , brother of Napoleon, King of Spain
Ferdinand VII , King of Spain
Friedrich Wilhelm III. , King of Prussia
Pius VII , Pope
Alexander I , Tsar in Russia
George III , King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Robert Banks Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , General and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
George Canning , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
James Madison , President of the United States
James Monroe , President of the United States
Fath Ali Shah , Shah in Persia
Kōkaku , Emperor of Japan
Ninkō , Emperor of Japan
Jiaqing , Emperor of China

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