World Events 1817-1825

Date

Event

1818	The United States and Great Britain set the United States and Canadian border at the 49th parallel.
1818	Frankenstein by English novelist Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley is published.
1819	The republic of Colombia, consisting of Venezuela and New Granada, is proclaimed with South American statesman Simón Bolívar as president.
1820	The third volume of poetry, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, by English poet John Keats is published. This volume includes 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' and 'Ode to a Nightingale.'
1821	American sealer Captain John Davis becomes the first person to land on Antarctica.
1821	Mexico becomes independent of Spain.
1821	Sequoyah, or George Guess, completes his invention of a writing system for the Cherokee Nation.
1822	Brazil proclaims its independence from Portugal.
1822	Jean François Champollion deciphers Egyptian hieroglyphics, working from the Rosetta Stone. This is the key to translating ancient Egyptian history and literature.
1823	United States President James Monroe announces U.S. policy toward Latin America in a speech to Congress. What becomes known as the Monroe Doctrine forbids European powers from colonizing the western hemisphere.