January
1st
2nd
The giant banking firm, Boldero, Lushington and Co. go bankrupt.
4th
Blackwattle Swamp: Snake Fights Wood Workers
7th
Prescient Prince Regent’s speech opens the parliament that shook the world.
12th
First steamboat journey across the Mississippi completed
16th
King of Sicily declares his heir to be “Vicar General”
18th
Parliamentarian Benjamin Walsh convicted of Fraud.
February
7th
Third of the “prophecied” New Madrid earthquakes hits the Mississippi.
27th
Lord Byron’s defends the Luddites in his maiden maiden speech in Parliament.
April
13th
Theatre: Marmion’s true origin discovered
September
9th
The defenders of Fort Allison ask for help
November
9th
Mary and Joseph Anning’s fossil discovery uncovered and announced in the Western Flying post (adaptation, A Man of Science)
18th
The Emu prison brig’s voyage to Australia is interrupted The Holkar Privateer
2012 bicentennial events.
(Bicentennial events do not always occur on the actual anniversary.)
July
20th
Salamanca 200th anniversary tour with The Cultural Experience (20th-23rd) (£1050 per person)
September
1st
Napoleon’s March to Moscow by The Cultural Experience (1-10) (£2,750 per person)
( More to come… why not share your events from the year 1812?)
