A great part of the modern image of the bell as a relic of the proclamation of American independence was forged by writer George Lippard.

* George Lippard, 19th-century novelist, journalist, playwright, social activist, labor organizer, most widely read author in the United States, 1844 – 1854

Philadelphia novelist and journalist George Lippard included a dedication to Brown in his 1845 bestseller The Quaker City ; or, The Monks of Monk Hall.

George Lippard wrote in the Citizen Soldier that the story was " characterised by thrilling interest and a graphic though sketchy power of description.

Felix Octavius Carr Darley ( June 23, 1822 – March 27, 1888 ) often credited as F. O. C. Darley, was an American painter in watercolor and illustrator, known for his illustrations in works by well-known 19th century authors, including: James Fenimore Cooper, Charles Dickens, Mary Maples Dodge, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Washington Irving, George Lippard, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Donald Grant Mitchell, Clement Clarke Moore, Frances Parkman, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Nathaniel Parker Willis.

In 1802 a Buildings Committee was set up to plan for expansion of the museum, and further highlighted by the donation in 1822 of the King's Library, personal library of King George III's, comprising 65, 000 volumes, 19, 000 pamphlets, maps, charts and topographical drawing.

Scott's " staging " of the royal Visit of King George IV to Scotland in 1822 and the king's wearing of tartan, resulted in a massive upsurge in demand for kilts and tartans that could not be met by the Scottish linen industry.

George IV landing at Leith in 1822

Scott's orchestration of King George IV's visit to Scotland, in 1822 was a pivotal event intended to inspire a view of his home country that, in his view, accentuated the positive aspects of the past while allowing the age of quasi-mediaeval blood-letting to be put to rest and the envisioning of a more useful, hopefully peaceful future.

* The Influence of Natural Religion upon the Temporal Happiness of Mankind ( 1822, written with George Grote and published under the pseudonym Philip Beauchamp )

Sir Harry Paget Flashman VC KCB KCIE is a fictional character created by George MacDonald Fraser ( 1925 – 2008 ), but based on the character " Flashman " in Tom Brown's Schooldays ( 1857 ), a semi-autobiographical work by Thomas Hughes ( 1822 – 1896 ).

King George IV waves from the battlements of the Half Moon Battery in 1822, drawn by James Skene

In 1822, King George IV made a visit to Edinburgh, becoming the first reigning monarch to visit the castle since Charles II in 1651.

* George Buchanan Armstrong ( 1822 – 1871 ), born in County Armagh, developed new system of sorting mail on trains in the United States

* George Somers Leigh Clarke ( 1822 – 1882, eminent architect lived at Walpole, Manor Park and number a important local houses.

James Austin, George McGahan and James W. Smith were appointed by the Governor as a county court, and their first meeting, held February 25, 1822, was at the house of Jesse Murphy, where they appointed John D. Peers as county clerk.

In 1822, Castlereagh was succeeded as foreign secretary by George Canning, to Metternich's dismay.

George Stoneman, who was born in this town in 1822, graduated from West Point and was a major general of cavalry in the Civil War.

A. Lyman ; 1821 – 1822, Lewis Bullock ; 1823, George Sipperly ; 1824, J. Brower ; 1825, N. B. Harris ; 1826, Calvin Thompson ; 1827, William F. Averill ; 1828 – 1831, H. R. Bristol ; 1832, N. B. Harris ; 1833, G. Sipperly ; 1834, N. B. Harris ; 1835, G. Reed ; 1836 – 1837, M. Peck ; 1838 – 1841, George Horton ; 1842 – 1844, J.

See also F Hardy, Memoirs of Lord Charlemont ( London, 1812 ); Warden Flood, Memoirs of Henry Flood ( London, 1838 ); Francis Plowden, Historical Review of the State of Ireland ( London, 1803 ); Alfred Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography ( Dublin, 1878 ); Sir Jonah Barrington, Rise and Fall of the Irish Nation ( London, 1833 ); WJ O ' Neill Daunt, Ireland and her Agitators ; Lord Mountmorres, History of the Irish Parliament ( 2 vole., London, 1792 ); Horace Walpole, Memoirs of the Reign of George III ( 4 vols., London, 1845 and 1894 ); Lord Stanhope, Life of William Pitt ( 4 vols., London, 1861 ); Thomas Davis, Life of JP Curran ( Dublin, 1846 ) this contains a memoir of Grattan by DO Madden, and Grattan's reply to Lord Clare on the question of the Union ; Charles Phillips, Recollections of Curran and some of his Contemporaries ( London, 1822 ); JA Froude, The English in Ireland ( London, 1881 ); JG McCarthy, Henry Grattan: an Historical Study ( London, 1886 ); Lord Mahon's History of England, vol.

An army of over 5, 500 troops under command of Major General George Stoneman ( 1822 – 1894 ) had left Knoxville, Tennessee, to raid Confederate targets in Virginia: the salt works at Saltville, the lead works at Wytheville and the iron works in Marion.

On 9 August 1822 he had an audience with King George IV in which he appeared distracted and mentally disturbed.

The Suicide of Lord Castlereagh by George Cruikshank, 1822

* George Philip Stanhope, 8th Earl of Chesterfield ( 1822 – 1883 )

The A5 terminates at Admiralty Arch ( 1822 – 24 ), which was designed by Thomas Harrison to commemorate a visit by King George IV in 1821 en route to Ireland and marks the zenith of Irish Mail coach operations.

The Act was repealed in 1782, having been largely successful, and a few decades later, " romantic " Highland Dress was enthusiastically adopted by George IV on a Walter Scott-inspired visit to Scotland in 1822.

* George N. Gordon ( 1822 – 1861 ), Protestant missionary to the South Pacific

( 1822 ); and he prepared designs for a frieze and other decorations for Buckingham Palace, which were not executed, owing to the death of George IV.

E. B. Tylor ( 2 October 1832 – 2 January 1917 ) and James George Frazer ( 1 January 1854 – 7 May 1941 ) are generally considered the antecedents to modern social anthropology in Britain.

* George Orwell's Animal Farm – MP3 Audio ( web archive )

* 1911 – During the Battle of Deçiq, Dedë Gjon Luli Dedvukaj, leader of the Malësori Albanians, raises the Albanian flag in the town of Tuzi, Montenegro, for the first time after George Kastrioti ( Skenderbeg ).

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1946 – George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen, English politician

* 1738 – Premiere in London, England, Great Britain of Serse, an Italian opera by George Frideric Handel.

* 1789 – On the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York City, George Washington takes the oath of office to become the first elected President of the United States.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

* 1776 – The Battle of Long Island: in what is now Brooklyn, New York, British forces under General William Howe defeat Americans under General George Washington.

* 1471 – George, Duke of Saxony ( d. 1539 )

* 1887 – George, Crown Prince of Serbia ( d. 1972 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1976 – Melissa George, Australian actress

* 1819 – Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet, Irish-English mathematician and physicist ( d. 1903 )

* 1820 – George Grove, English historian ( d. 1900 )

* 1919 – George Shearing, English-American pianist ( d. 2011 )

* 1943 – Michael Willetts, English soldier, George Cross recipient ( d. 1971 )

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1947 – King George II of Greece ( b. 1890 )

* 1856 – George Coulthard, Australian footballer and cricketer ( d. 1883 )

* 1885 – George de Hevesy, Hungarian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1966 )

* 1782 – George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle.

* 1794 – U. S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.