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EVENTS

Nelson's Column is erected in Trafalgar Square , London.

WORKS

Eugène Delacroix - ''Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople'' (Louvre, Paris)

BIRTHS

May 28 - Hans Makart , painter and designer

September 27 - Thomas Nast , cartoonist

November 12 - Auguste Rodin , sculptor

November 14 - Claude Monet , Impressionist painter

DEATHS

March 19 - Thomas Daniell , landscape painter

March 30 - Beau Brummell , leader of fashion

April 10 - Alexander Nasmyth , painter

May 7 - Caspar David Friedrich , painter

June 20 - Pierre-Joseph Redouté , flower painter