1814-1815
Congress of Vienna

1815
Corn Laws in Great Britain

December 1816
Corn Law Riots in London

1817
Buschenschaft holds congress at Wurtburg

1818
Brussian Zollverein created

1818
International Congress held at Aix-La-Chapelle

1818
Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein

1819
Metternich initiates Carlsbad Decrees

1819
Peterloo Massacre

1820
Several members of Cato Street Conspiracy executed

1820s
British radicalism commences

1820
Nephew of Louis XVIII (the Duke De Berry) is assassinated

1820
The Congress of Troppau

1822
The Congress of Verona

1823
Monroe Doctrine

1824
Louis XVIII dies, Charles X becomes French king

1825
Decembrist revolt put down in Russia, Nicholas I comes to power

1825
Robert Owen founds New Harmony, Indiana

1827
Anglo-French-Russian navy destroys Turkish fleet, helping Greek nationalists

1829
Nations of Europe recognize an independent Greece

1829
First truly successful locomotive tested

1830s
Gothic Revival in Architecture

July 1830
Charles X passes "Four Ordinances" in France

July 1830
July Revolution In France: Charles X abdicates, Louis Philippe becomes king

1831
Mazzini founds Young Italy

1832
Goethe completes Faust

1832
Parliament passes Reform Bill

1833
Factory Act restricts child labor (Great Britain)

1834
Poor Laws passed (Great Britain)

1838
Anti-Corn Laws League

1838
Chartist movement begins

1839
Chartist movement gains 1 million signatures

1840
Frederick William IV comes to power in Prussia

1840s
Corn Laws repealed

1840s
Railway construction begins in England and Europe

1842
Chartist movement gains 3 million signatures

1847
Ten Hour Act in Great Britain limits women and child labor to 10 hours a day

January 1848
Marx and Engels publish The Communist Manifesto

February 1848
February Revolution in Paris, barricades in the streets

1848
Louis Napoleon Bonaparte becomes president of France

March 1848
Metternich, terrified of unrest, flees Vienna

March 15, 1848
Hungary granted independence within the Austrian Empire, revolutions begin throughout Eastern Europe

June 1848
Pan-Slavic Conference held in Prague

May 1848
Frankfurt Assembly

December 1848
Ferdinand of Austria abdicates, Franz Joseph becomes Emperor