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1800 to 1804

1800

may 13 - Napoleon ?+ assembles his armies at Geneva, Switzerland, in preparation for crossing the Alps at the St. Bernard Pass
jun 14 - Austria and its allies are defeated by the French in the Battle of Marengo.
jun 27 - Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
jul 15 - French and Austrians sign a suspension of arms at Parsdorf, near Munich.
sep 05 - British take Malta
nov - Thomas Jefferson +¢ defeats John Adams + in U.S. presidential election
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x - Paper can be made from vegetable fibers instead of rags.
x - Letter takes 20 days to reach Savannah from Portland, Maine.
x - |Ireland ?| Population of 4.5 million, making it the most densely populated nation in europe.
x - Robert Fulton [b.1765-d.1815] builds the submarine ?+ Nautilus.
x - Charles Goodyear born, American rubber magnate
x - Pius VII + becomes pope ?+ [1823] [re.List of Popes]

1801

jan 01 - Britain becomes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
jan 01 - The first, and largest, asteroid Ceres is discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi.
feb - France and Austria sign the Treaty of Lunéville
apr 02 - First Battle of Copenhagen. Armed Neutrality of the North dissolved.
may - The pascha of Tripoli declares war on United States of America by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
jul - Napoleon signs Concordat with pope
x - Semaphore system built along the coast of France.
x - Concordat of peace between France and the Papacy
x - Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents a loom using punch cards.
x - |Russia ?+| A revolution kills Paul I + in mar, and his son, Alexander I - the Blessed + is given the throne. [1823] The conquest of Caucasus region begins. [re.List of Tsars]
x - Muslim Wahhabis capture Mecca & Medinah, raid Karbala [u.1804]

1802

mar 25 - France and England enter into Treaty of Amiens, leaving France the predominant power on the European Continent.
oct - French army enters Switzerland
oct 02 - War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
x - Elias Lonnrot born.
x - Napoleon named Consul for life.
x - United States Military Academy founded at West Point

1803

mar 15 - Promulgation of the Code Napoleon
apr 30 - USA under President Thomas Jefferson makes the Louisiana Purchase from Napoleon, for $ 15 million, essentially doubling the size of the USA
may 18 - Great Britain declares war on France
x - Fourdrinier continuous web paper-making machine.
x - English scientist John Dalton + [b.sep 06 1766- d.jul 27 1844] introduced the atomic theory of matter.
x - India's population is 200 million.
x - War between Britian and France again.

1804

jun 15 - The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by New Hampshire, and arguably becomes effective. It was subsequently vetoed by the Governor of New Hampshire.
jul 11 - Aaron Burr + shoots and fatally wounds Alexander Hamilton + in a duel in Weehawken, New Jersey.
jul 27 - The Twelfth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ratified by Tennessee, removing doubt surrounding adoption.
nov - Thomas Jefferson +¢ defeats Charles C. Pinckney in U.S. presidential election
dec 12 - Spain declares war on Britain
x - |Germany| Lithography + is invented.
x - Haiti wins independence from France.
x - Robert Owen sets up a "utopian" community in Scotland
x - George Baxter [d.1867] patented letterpress process for color printing.
x - Joseph Marie Jacquard [b.1752- d.1834], an engineer and architect, develops in Lyon, France a loom controlled by perforated cardboard cards.
x - Napoleon orders optical telegraph line to be built between Paris and Milan, Italy
x - Bonaparte ?+ crowns himself Emperor Napoleon I

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