1805 to 1809

1805

may 26 - Napoleon ?+ becomes King of Italy
oct 21 - The Battle of Trafalgar +. A British Force lead by Lord Nelson utterly destroyed a combined French and Spanish Navy
jun - War ends between Tripoli and the United States of America.
oct 21 - Horatio Nelson, British admiral, dies.
x - Naopleonic wars expand his Empire [u.1811]
x - Britian, Austria, Russia and Sweden form the Third Coalition against France.
x - Sweden declares war on France
x - Lewis and Clark Expedition sets out across North America

1806

may 20 - John Stuart Mill +¢, British philosopher, born
jan 01 - Napoléon abolished the French Republican calendar+ in favour of the Gregorian calendar+.
x - Bonaparte's Postmaster General, Antoin Lavalette, establishes government express post with locked dispatch cases.
x - Russia and Turkey fight. Russia gains a region of Bessarabia, and a position in the Balkins.
x - Prussia, Britian, Russia and Sweden form the fourth Coalition against France. Prussia is defeated in the battle of Jena.
x - Holy Roman Empire + dissolved by Emperor Francis II.
x - Lewis and Clark reach the Pacific Coast of North America

1807

jan 19 - Robert E. Lee, Confederate General, born d.oct 12 1870] feb - Napoleon ?+ attacks Russia
jun 22 - The Chesapeake Affair: USS Chesapeake fired on and boarded by the HMS Leopard off Norfolk, Virginia
aug - First voyage of first practical steamboat, the Cleremont, on the Hudson River in New York
sep 01 - Aaron Burr + acquitted on the charge of treason due to lack of the constitutionally required two witnesses.
dec 22 - Embargo Act passed by US Congress halting trade with Foreign Nations [repealed 1808]
x - |USA| New Jersey is last state to take away women's right to vote.
x - the USA bans the importation of slaves.
x - The British ban the slave trade.
x - |PRUSSIA| Baron Karl vom Stein abolishes personal serfdom.
x - Russia is defeated by the French in the Battle of Friedland.
x - Camera lucida improves image tracing.

1808

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may - Fortress of Sveaborg in Helsinki lost by Sweden to Russia.
nov - Swedish troops evacuate Finland, tsar Alexander proclaims Finland a part of Russia.
nov - James Madison + defeats Charles C. Pinckney in U.S. presidential election
dec - Napoleon invades Spain
x - Carbon paper, invented by Pellegrino Turri in Italy
x - Goethe publishes the first part of Faust.
x - French scientist Joseph Gasy Lussac measures the relative volume of gases involved in chemical reactions and discovers the "law of combining volumes"
x - Napoleon I ?+ conquerors Spain, replacing Ferdinand VII with Joseph Bonaparte.
x - |PRUSSIA| Baron Karl vom Stein gives the ability to control municiple affairs over to local elected officials.
x - Turri of Italy builds a typewriter for a blind contessa.

1809

jan 04 - Louis Braille, inventor of a writing system for the blind, born
jan 19 - Edgar Allan Poe ?*¢ [d.1849] is born
feb 11 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.
feb 12 - Abraham Lincoln, US president, born
feb 12 - Charles Darwin, British naturalist, born
mar 04 - James Madison + succeeds Thomas Jefferson +¢ and is inaugurated as president of the United States
may - Napoleon ?+ captures Vienna, is excommunicated, imprisons pope Pius VII.
may 05 - Mary Kies is the first woman to be awarded a patent.
may 05 - The Swiss canton of Aargau denies Jews citizenship.
jun 07 - Shah Shuja of Afghanistan signs a treaty with the British. Only weeks later, he is succeeded by Mahmud Shah
jun 08 - Thomas Paine *¢, writer of Common Sense *, dies
aug 06 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet, born
dec 09 - American Frontiersman Christopher Houston Carson [aka.Kit Carsen +] born [d.may 23 1869]
x - Benjamin Silliman and an apothecary named Darling open two soda-water fountains in New York City, hoping to make themselves rich selling carbonated water for "health purposes", but the business fails.
x - Gustavus IV of Sweden is deposed and the Riksdag gives the crown to Gustavus' uncle Charles VII with the promise that the Rigsdag would be able to check the kings actions.
x - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) is recommissioned as flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron.
x - Russia conquers Finland from Sweden.
x - Louis Poinsot describes the two remaining Kepler solids +.
x - Lamarck publishes Philosophie Zoologique, outlining the concept of evolution.
x - Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer, dies

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