1800:
Volta produces 1st electric battery
1804:
Napoleon voted emperor
1806-22:
Wars of South American Independence
1811:
Luddites attack mechanization
1814
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
1815:
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo
1830:
1st passenger railway
1833:
Factory Act bans employment of children under 9
1833:
Slavery abolished in British colonies
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