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The events of Julian Fellowes's novel Past Imperfect take place during the 1968 season in London. In the 2003 film What a Girl Wants, Lord Henry Dashwood invites his new-found daughter Daphne to attend the London Season. The 2009 young-adult novel The Season by Sarah MacLean portrays a young woman entering her first London Season.
1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1 °F). [1] Summer temperatures in Europe were the coldest of any on record between 1766 and 2000, [ 2 ] resulting in crop failures and major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere .
[3] [4] To historians who expand the century to include larger historical movements, the "long" 18th century [5] may run from the Glorious Revolution of 1688 to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 [6] or even later. [7] In Europe, philosophers ushered in the Age of Enlightenment.
1815 English cricket season Wellington at Waterloo by Robert Alexander Hillingford Events from the year 1815 in the United Kingdom . 1815 marks the end of years of war between the United Kingdom and France when the Duke of Wellington wins a decisive victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo .
On the contrary, when the protagonists marry at the end of the novel, they have learned to love, respect, and trust each other in a relationship of interdependence and equality. [ note 26 ] Jane Austen assures readers that their marriages will be happy but, leaving them on the threshold of married life refrains from detailing their day-to-day ...
The war drew to a close after bitter fighting that lasted even after the Burning of Washington in August 1814 and Andrew Jackson's smashing defeat of the British invasion army at the Battle of New Orleans in January 1815. The ratification of the Treaty of Ghent in February 1815, formally ended the war, returned to the status quo ante bellum ...
Portrait of Prince Metternich by Thomas Lawrence. Prince Metternich, Austrian chancellor and foreign minister, as well as an influential leader in the Concert of Europe. The Concert of Europe describes the geopolitical order in Europe from 1814 to 1914, during which the great powers tended to act in concert to avoid wars and revolutions and generally maintain the territorial and political ...
The long 18th century is a phrase used by many British historians to cover a more natural historical period than the simple use of the standard calendar definition. They expand the century to include larger British and Western European historical movements, with their subsequent "long" 18th century typically running from the Glorious Revolution and the beginning of the Nine Years' War in 1688 ...