General
Population: 1.08 Billion*
- Archaeology: Champolion deciphers Egyptian Heiroglyphs
- Entertainment: Writers include Grillparzer The Golden Fleece, Washington Irving, Charles Nodier (trilogy), Pushkin, Stendhal, Alfred de Vigny
Art include Delacroix "Dante and Virgil Crossing the Styx", John Martin "Destruction of Herculaneum"
Franz Liszt (age 11) debuts as pianist, Schubert, Beethoven
- Languages: HT Colebrooke founds Royal Asiastic Society for study of Eastern languages
- Science: Fourier writes about heat
Poncelet writes about projective geometry
d'Halloy names Cretaceous system
- Technology: Daguerre and Bouton invent the diorama – paintings illuminated in a dark room give illusion of reality
Fresnel perfects lenses for lighthouses
- Deaths: Astronomer William Herschel, Statesman Karl August von Hardenberg, Sculptor Antonio Canova, Legislator William Pinkney, Postmaster Gideon Granger,
Author ETA Hoffmann, Percy Bysshe Shelly (age 30), Lord Castlereagh (suicide)
Africa
- Liberia: Liberia founded by American Colonization Society in W Africa as home for former slaves
- Sudan: Egypt completes conquest of Sudan
Americas
- Brazil: Pedro of Brazil, son of John VI of Portugal declares Brazil independent - end of United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil, and the Algarves
- Chile: Earthquake kills 10,000
- Colombia: Established
- Ecuador: Established
Asia
- India: End of famine
Cyclone kills 50,000
- Indonesia: Galunggung (Java) eruption kills 4000
Europe
- General: Congress of Verona opens to discuss European problems
Russia, France, Austria and Russia pledge to help Spain retake territories in west - US and Britain oppose
- Great Britain: Charles IV visits Edinburgh
Bottle riots in Dublin – viceroy attacked by Orangemen
Royal Academy of Music founded
World's first iron railroad bridge built for Stockton-Darlington line
"Sunday Times" of London founded
Famine in Ireland
Ireland demands independence
- Greece: Greeks adopt liberal republican constitution and proclaim independence
Turkish fleet captures island of Chios and massacres inhabitants – as reprisal Greeks set fire to Turkish admiral's vessel
- Spain: French invade after Congress of Verona authorizes intervention to restore the Monarchy
Middle East
Pacific