• On February 5, with George III insane, George IV (Prinny) is declared Regent, thus officially starting the Regency period.
• For much of the year, the Great Comet blazes across the night sky.


• In the fall, Privateer Devon Sebastien comes looking for a legacy in gems and falls in love with amateur astronomer Cassiopeia Bentbrooke in Starstruck.

1812

• The United States declares war after suffering under England's naval blockade.
• Darkly handsome Lord Byron has published Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, which is an instant success.
• At Christmas, Alan Pentercast challenges the love of his life, Genevieve Munroe, to marry him if he can bring her all the gifts in The Twelve Days of Christmas song without spending a penny.

1813

• The first "Regency romance," Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice is published (although she would not have called them romances, a term reserved for high adventure then, and in her day, they were contemporary stories).
• During the Season, Alexander Wescott, Viscount Borin, goes looking for espionage and instead discovers the interesting machinations of the spritely Katherine Collings in Lord Borin's Secret Love.
• In June, the Battle of Vittoria ends Napoleon's conquests, for now.
• From the Season through the fall, Allison Munroe leads the Marquis DeGuis, the season's most eligible bachelor, a merry chase, until she begins to wonder about her neighbor, the gallant Geoffrey Pentercast in Catch of the Season.

1814

• In April, Napoleon is banished to Elba and an estimated 12,000 British civilians flock to Paris to play.
• During the Season, Allistair Fenwick, Lord Trevithan, struggles to give up his exciting espionage career for the charms of the lovely Joanna Lindby in "The June Bride Conspiracy" in His Blushing Bride
• During the Season and summer, Thomas, Marquis DeGuis, vows to find himself a bride who will not mind The Marquis' Kiss but ends up losing his heart to the highly Original Margaret Munroe.
• In November, diplomats at the Congress of Vienna carve up Napoleon's former holdings.

1815

• On March 7, having escaped Elba, Napoleon lands in France and heads for Paris, growing an army as he goes.
• Just before Easter, American David Tenant, Earl of Brentfield, finds himself in A Dangerous Dalliance with lovely artist Hannah Alexander.
• During the Season, debonair Kevin Whattling decides to make the educated heiress Eugennia Welch The Bluestocking on His Knee.
• That summer, Daniel Lewiston proposes marriage to the woman of his dreams, the widowed Cynthia Jacobs, so he can play father to her three sons and finds a love "Sweeter Than Candy" in A Match for Mother
• On June 18, Wellington defeats Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
• At Christmas, Eleanor Pritchett finds a small black kitten, and an unlikely romance with novelist Justinian Darby, Earl of Wenworth, in "A Place By the Fire" in Mistletoe Kittens.

1816

• George "Beau" Brummell, the man who had once decreed the aristocracy's fashions, flees England to escape creditors.
• No longer society's darling, Lord Byron also leaves England never to return alive.

1817

• During the Season, the cursed Brandon Pellidore, Marquis of Hartley, helps the mercurial Celia Rider find her fortune and falls in love in the process in Perfection.
• On July 18, Jane Austen dies.
• On November 6, Princess Charlotte, then heir to the throne of England, dies with her stillborn son after a painful labor. The nation mourns.

1818

• Before the Season, the wild and wicked Chas Prestwick brings excitement to the life of the demur Anne Fairchild in more ways than one in The Unflappable Miss Fairchild.
• Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion are published posthumously.

1819

• During the Season, affable and charming Leslie Petersborough, now Marquis of Hastings, steps out from under the shadows of his father and friends to help rapscallion Cleopatra Renfield find the right match in The Irredeemable Miss Renfield.
• During the Season and summer, the powerful Parliamentarian Malcolm, Viscount Breckonridge, hunts for the perfect bride and finds the headstrong Sarah Compton in The Incomparable Miss Compton.
• May 24 - The future Queen Victoria is born and shortly becomes the heir apparent.

1820

• On January 29, George III dies, but Prinny will not be crowned until July 19, 1821.
• During the Season, long-time rake Jareth Darby tries to convince Eloisa Watkin, a former lover now turned lady, that he is Utterly Devoted.
• From August to November, Prinny seeks to divorce Queen Caroline, whom he finds detestable, by having her tried by Parliament.