1820s

English

Noun

1820s pl (plural only)

1. The decade from 1820 to 1829.
   • 2001, William Alan Blair, William Pencak, Making and Remaking Pennsylvania's Civil War, page 107:

     He made his fortune during the presteel era of Pittsburgh's development — the period before Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick — beginning in the 1820s and 1830s with a start in pharmaceuticals and white lead.

   • 2003, William J. Mills, Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia:

     Other winterings followed in 1795 and on four occasions in the 1820s, but one in 1834–1835 ended with the death of all members of a seven-man party.

   • 2018, I. S. Karabulatova et al., “Mythologization of the Abrek's Image in the Modern Caucasian Linguistic Consciousness”, in Astra Salvensis, volume 6, number 12, →ISSN, page 740:

     The decisions of the 1820s–50s deprived the Adygeic princes who had accepted Russian citizenship of almost all their former privileges, above all the right to convoke troops, declare war, make raids.

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decades in English (edit)