Media History Timeline: 1810s

19th Century: Second Decade

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Jacob Grimm
fairy tales, 1812

Star Spangled Banner
written in sea battle
1814

The waltz
1815

Vanderlyn's Ariadne
Asleep on Naxos Island
1819

1810-1819

1810: An electro-chemical telegraph is constructed in Germany.

1810: Scott's "The Lady of the Lake."

1810: Postal services consolidated under uniform private contracts.

1811: Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility examin es English middle-class morality.

1811: Luddite riots will forever give a name to opponents of advances in technology.

1812: Beethoven's 7thSymphony and 8thSymphony.

1812: Pierre Lalace argues for calculating the probability of natural events.

1812: Byron gains fame with "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage."

1812: Georg Wilhelm Hegel explains dialectical reasoning in Science of Logic.

1812: Brothers Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm write their early truly grim Fairy Tales.

1813: Austen publishes Pride and Prejudice.

1813: Franz Schubert composes the first of nine symphonies.

1813: Byron's "The Bride of Abydos" wins praise.

1813: Troy, NY, Post editorial introduces "Uncle Sam" to represent U.S.

1813: Percy Bysshe Shelley's, "Queen Mab," a poem of social protest.

1813: Jonathan Wyss completes Swiss Family Robinson, begun by his father.

1813: Congress authorizes steamboats to carry mail.

1814: In England, a steam-powered press prints the Times, 1100 copies an hour.

1814: Walter Scott publishes Waverly. (and all future novels) anonymously.

1814: Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

1814: In destroying Washington, D.C., British troops burn down Library of Congress.

1814: Under Napoleon, optical signal system stretches from Belgium to Italy.

1814: Francis Scott Key writes "The Star Spangled Banner."

1814: Schubert creates the German "lieder" (art songs). He will write more than 500.

1815: 3,000 post offices in U.S.

1815: Pigeons carry news of Waterloo; bankers make killing on stock market.

1815: The close physical contact of the waltz shocks society.

1816: Post Office carries newspapers for less than 2 cents postage.; 1816: Book by John Hoyland, English Quaker, calls for decent treatment of Gypsies.; 1816: Joseph Nicéphore Niépce captures a negative image on paper, but it darkens.; 1816: Coleridge's "Kublai Khan," written in 1797, is published.; 1816: Gioacchino Rossini's opera, The Barber of Seville.; 1816: Schubert writes his 5th Symphony.; 1817: Harper & Row publishing house is founded.; 1817: David Ricardo's Principles of Political Economy considers economics a science.; 1816: American Bible Society founded; wants to put Bible in every American home.; 1818: Stamped letter paper is sold in Sardinia.; 1818: In England, Thomas Bowdler's Family Shakespeare has rude words expurgated.; 1818: Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley writes Frankenstein.; 1818: Jane Austen's novels Persuasion, Northanger Abbey published posthumously.; 1818: Lord Byron's poem, "Don Juan."; 1818: Schubert's 6th Symphony.; 1818: Scott's novels Rob Roy, Heart of Midlothian.; 1818: Arthur Schopenhauer writes pessimistic The World as Will and Representation.; 1818: In Sweden, Berzelius isolates selenium; its electric conductivity reacts to light.; 1818: In France, the first dictionary on The Language of Flowers.; 1819: Charles LaTour's noisemaker adds to world history of warning signals.; 1819: John Herschel publishes work on photographic chemical processes.; 1819: Napier builds a rotary printing press.; 1819: Hans Oersted's electromagnetism discovery will be essential to communication.; 1819: In France, freedom of the press.; 1819: John Vanderlyn's painting of a nude is condemned in New York City.