Editing 1810s (section)

==Culture==

=== Literature ===
[[Lord Byron]], regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, wrote his most well-known work during this decade.  Amongst Byron's works are the brief poems ''[[She Walks in Beauty]]'', ''When We Two Parted'', and ''[[So, we'll go no more a roving]]'', in addition to the [[narrative]] poems ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'' and ''[[Don Juan (Byron)|Don Juan]]''.

Other events in literature:
* December 20, 1812 - The first volume of ''[[Grimm's Fairy Tales]]'' is published.
* January 28, 1813 – [[Jane Austen]]'s ''[[Pride and Prejudice]]'' is published.
* September, 1813 – [[Robert Southey]] becomes Poet Laureate of Britain.
* 1813: The [[Philomathean Society]] of the [[University of Pennsylvania]] is founded (the oldest continuously existing literary society in the United States).
* 1814: [[Missionaries]] attempt to write down the [[Māori language]].
* 1814: [[Sir Walter Scott]] writes ''[[Waverley (novel)|Waverley]]''.
* 1816: [[Jane Austen]]'s ''Emma'' is published.
* 1817: [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] publishes ''[[Biographia Literaria]]''.
* January 1, 1818 – [[Mary Shelley]]'s ''[[Frankenstein|Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus]]'' is published.

===Fashion===
{{Main|1795–1820 in fashion}}

===Theatre===
* 1818: [[Old Vic]] founded (''as Royal Coburg Hall'').

===Music===
* April 27, 1810 – [[Ludwig van Beethoven|Beethoven]] composes his famous piano piece, ''[[Für Elise]]''.
* January 24, 1813 – The Philharmonic Society founded in London (later the [[Royal Philharmonic Society]]).
* December 8, 1813 – [[Symphony No. 7 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's seventh symphony]] is performed for the first time in [[Vienna]]. 
* February 27, 1814 – [[Symphony No. 8 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's eighth symphony]] is performed for the first time in [[Vienna]], less than three months after his seventh symphony was first performed.  Beethoven reportedly told one of his pupils that the seventh symphony was more popular because his eighth symphony was better.<ref>[[Michael Steinberg (music critic)|Steinberg, Michael]]. "The Symphony: a listeners guide". pp. 44–47. Oxford University Press, 1995.</ref>  It would be over ten years before the first performance of [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|his next symphony]] in Vienna.
* February 20, 1816 – [[Gioachino Rossini]]'s ''[[The Barber of Seville]]'' debuts at [[Largo di Torre Argentina|Teatro Argentina]], with a ''fiasco''.
* December 24, 1818 – ''[[Silent Night (song)|Silent Night]]'' composed by [[Franz Gruber (musician)|Franz Xaver Gruber]] and [[Josef Mohr]].

===Other===
<!--IMAGE-->[[File:Elgin Marbles British Museum.jpg|thumb|[[Elgin Marbles]] displayed.]]
===Other===
* [[November 10|10 November]] 1810 – [[Berners Street hoax]]: [[Theodore Hook]] attracts dozens of people to 54 Berners Street in [[London]].
* 1815: [[First-class cricket]] begins.
* 1817: [[Elgin Marbles]] are displayed in the [[British Museum]].
* 1818: The first edition of the ''[[Farmer's Almanac]]'' is published.