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| 1 | 1822 | - 1822: France - First prototype Espresso machine
- 1822: Ireland - Famine in Ireland prompts migration to US and Canada
- 1822: CA/UK - Louis-Joseph Papineau, a member of the legislative assembly since 1814, travels from Montreal to England to oppose an Act of Union identifying the French Canadians as a minority without language rights. The act is not passed in the British Parliament.
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| 2 | 1823 | - 1823: UK - The Royal Academy of Music is established in London.
- 1823: UK - The British Museum is extended and extensively rebuilt to house an expanding collection
- 1823: UK - Mackintosh (raincoat) invented by Charles Mackintosh of Scotland.
- 1823: Shanawdithit, the last known Beothuk is found
- 1823: CA - Ward Chipman replaces George Stracey Smyth as Governor of New Brunswick
- 1823: CA - Peter Robinson organizes land settlements of Irish Catholics to Carelton and Lanark County, Ontario.
- 10 May 1823: CA/UK - Louis-Joseph Papineau and John Neilson are in London to present a petition of 60,000 signatures against favouring Union of the colonies
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| 3 | 1824 | - 1824: UK - The National Gallery is established
- 1824: UK - Commercial boom in Britain
- 1824: UK - Professor Michael Faraday invents the first toy balloon.
- 1824: UK - Englishman Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement, the modern building material.
- 1824: CA - The first Welland Canal is begun, partly in response to American initiatives in the Erie Canal.
- 1824: CA - William Lyon Mackenzie establishes the Colonial Advocate.
- 1824: CA - First Lachine Canal near Montreal is completed.
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