Editing 1810s (section)

==People==

===Authors===
* [[Mary Shelley]] (''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'')

===Composers===
* [[Ludwig Van Beethoven]] (“Fidelio”, “Wellingtons Victory”, “Symphony No.7” Piano Concerto No.5 “Emperor” )

===Disasters===
* June 9, 1811 – The [[1811 Great fire of Podil|Great fire of the Podil]] breaks out in [[Kiev]], [[Ukraine]].
* May 25, 1812 – [[Felling mine disaster]]: A mine explosion at the [[Felling (UK)|Felling]] [[colliery]] near [[Jarrow]], England, leaves 96 dead.
* February 12, 1814 – A fire destroys the [[Custom House, City of London|Custom House]] in London.
* October – A large vat full of [[porter (beer)]] owned by [[Meux's Brewery]] of London bursts, demolishing houses and killing 9 people. See [[London Beer Flood]].
* May 30, 1815 – The ''[[Arniston (ship)|Arniston]]'', an [[East Indiaman]] repatriating wounded troops to England from [[Ceylon]], is wrecked near [[Waenhuiskrans]], [[South Africa]] with the loss of 372 of the 378 people on board.
* September 23, 1815 – The [[Great September Gale of 1815]] is the first [[hurricane]] to strike New England in 180 years.
* October 3, 1815 – The [[Chassigny (meteorite)|Chassigny]] Mars meteorite falls in Chassigny, Haute-Marne, France.
* February 12, 1816 – Fire nearly destroys the city of [[St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador|St. John's]], [[Newfoundland and Labrador|Newfoundland]].
* July 17, 1816 – The French passenger ship ''[[The Raft of the Medusa|Medusa]]'' runs aground off the coast of [[Senegal]], with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.
* June 25, 1817 – A large riot breaks out in [[Copenhagen]] Prison; the army is sent to quell it.
* 1817 – A [[typhus]] epidemic occurs in [[Edinburgh]] and [[Glasgow]].

===Establishments===
* 1812 – The [[Bishop James Madison Society]] is founded at the [[College of William & Mary]], [[Williamsburg, Virginia]].
* August 7, 1814 – [[Pope Pius VII]] decrees the bull [[Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum]] reestablishing the [[Society of Jesus]] (Jesuits) all over the world, after having approved their survival and existence in Russia.
* February 4, 1815 – The first Dutch student association, the Groninger Studenten Corps, [[Vindicat atque Polit]] is founded in the Netherlands. The first rector of the senate was B.J. Winter.
* April 11, 1816 – In [[Philadelphia]], the [[African Methodist Episcopal Church]] is established by [[Richard Allen (Reverend)|Richard Allen]] and other African-American Methodists, the first such denomination completely independent of White churches.
* 1816 – [[Rammohun Roy]] founds [[Presidency College, Kolkata|Hindu College]] in [[Calcutta]], offering instructions in Western languages and subjects.
* April 15, 1817 – The first American school for the deaf opens in [[Hartford, Connecticut]].
* May, 1817 – The [[General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America|General Convention]] of the [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal Church]] founds the [[General Theological Seminary]] while meeting in New York City.
* November 11, 1818 – [[Ying Wa College|Anglo-Chinese College]] is founded by [[Robert Morrison (missionary)|Robert Morrison]] in [[Malacca]] (later renamed [[Ying Wa College]]).
* January 25, 1819 – [[Thomas Jefferson]] founds the [[University of Virginia]].
* August 6, 1819 – [[Norwich University]] is founded by Captain [[Alden Partridge]] in [[Vermont]] as the first private military school in the United States.

===Other events===
* August 3, 1811 – First ascent of [[Jungfrau]], third highest summit in the [[Bernese Alps]],
* July 13, 1813 – Missionaries [[Adoniram Judson]] and his wife [[Ann Hasseltine Judson]] arrive in [[Burma]].
* 1815 – British missionaries arrive in New Zealand.
* 1815 – The second wave of [[Amish]] immigration to North America begins.
* 1816 – [[Tsultrim Gyatso]] becomes the 10th [[Dalai Lama]].
* November 22, 1817 – [[Frédéric Cailliaud]] discovers the old Roman [[emerald]] mines at [[Sikait]], [[Egypt]].