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1805
Battle of Austerlitz.
"Done
With Bonaparte" - Mark Knopfler
1808
Napolean conquers Spain.
"Done
With Bonaparte" - Mark Knopfler
1809
Haydn dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1812
Napolean defeated at Moscow.
"Done
With Bonaparte" - Mark Knopfler
1815
Napolean loses to Wellington at Mont St Jean,
not that anyone gets the name right
"Waterloo"
- Abba
1822
Escaped convict Alexander Pearce becomes a
cannibal
"A
Tale They Won't Believe" - Weddings, Parties, Anything
1824 - 1830
Austrlian Bushranger Jack Donahoe in Australia inspires an Irish folk
song. Go figure
"Wild
Colonial Boy" - Cold Chisel
1826
Carl Maria von Weber dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1827
Beethoven dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1828
Schubert dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1837
Johan Neopumuk Hummel dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1844 - 1848
The sole term of US President James K. Polk,
too often overlooked by historians
James
K. Polk - They Might Be Giants
1846 - 1864
American settlers and Navaho Indians clash,
resulting in the defeat of the Navaho
"Short
Memory" - Midnight Oil
1860 - 1949
James Ensor, Belgian Expressionist Painter
"Meet
James Ensor" - They Might Be Giants
1861
The James Brothers Wild West Show proves uncommonly
profitable, for a while
"Frank
and Jesse James" - Warren Zevon
"Just
Like Jesse James" - Cher
1861
Burke and Wills (and camel) find the Never-Never
"Reckless"-
Australian Crawl
1878
Britain wages war on the Zulu nation, destroying
it utterly
"Short
Memory" - Midnight Oil
1864
Giacomo Meyerbeer dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1879
Dostoyevsky writes "The Brothers Karamazov" - but dies
before selling the movie rights
"All Homeboys Are Dickheads" - This Is Serious
Mum
1881
Modeste Mussgorsky dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1881 - 1973
Pablo Picasso becomes a notorious artist
"Pablo
Picasso" - Burning Sensations
1883
Wagner dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1886
Liszt dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
1890
Technologically primitive lynchings are rendered obselete when New
York introduces the Electric Chair
"Fuel"
- Ani Di Franco
1897
Brahms dies
"Decomposing
Composers" - Monty Python
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