General
Population: 1.07 Billion*
- Entertainment: Writing includes Jane Austen's works (posthumous), Byron Don Juan, Grillparzer Sappho, Hazlitt (poets), Keats Endymion,
TL Peacock, Walter Scott, Marry Wollstonecrraft Shelly Frankenstein, Josef Dobrovsky (Czech language), Henry Hallam (Middle Ages)
Art includes Edwin Landseer "Fighting Dogs",
Music includes Donizetti, Franz Xavier Huber "Stille Nacht Heilige Nacht", Rossini, Beethoven, Schubert
- Science: FW Bessel catalogs 3,222 stars
Berzelius publishes molecular weights of 2000 chemical compounds
JF Encke discovers orbit of Encke's comet
Cadmium discovered by Stromeyer and Hermann
Wells hypothesizes about human evolution
- Technology: Jeremiah Chubb invents detector lock
- Transportation: Savannah becomes first steamship to cross the Atlantic (26 days)
- Deaths: Warren Hastings of India, Paul Revere, Revolutionary Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, Charles XIII of Sweden, Queen Charlotte of Britain,
Abraham Lincoln's mother dies from drinking the milk of a cow that had eaten poisonous white snakeroot
Africa
- Egypt: Mohammed Ali of Egypt has overrun all Arabian peninsula
- South Africa: Chaka (Shaka) and the Zulus form an empire in South Africa uniting tribes to 1828
Americas
- Canada: Border between Canada and US set at 49th parallel
- Chile: Independence under Jose de San Martin
Asia
- East Indies: Returned to Netherlands (Holland)
- India: Dominions of the Holkar of Indore – Rajput States and Poona come under British control
End of Marathas fighting against growing British power
Europe
- France: Allies evacuate their troops
France joins "Holy Alliance" of QUintuple Alliance at Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle
- German States: Bavarian constitution proclaimed followed by constitution in Baden
Internal customs in Prussia abolished, Bonn U founded
Hegel succeeds Fichte as professor of philosophy at Berlin
Schlegel appointed professor of Indian languages at Bonn
Customs union considered
- Great Britain: Orders of St. Michael and St. George instituted by the Prince Regent
Queen Charlotte dies
- Netherlands: East Indies returns to Holland
- Spain: Prado Museum in Madrid founded
- Sweden: Charles XIII dies – succeeded by Jean Bernadotte (Napoleonic general) as Charles XIV
Middle East
- General: Mohammed Ali of Egypt has overrun all Arabian peninsula
Pacific
- Australia: Penal colony set up at Brisbane