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| 1807 |
| | | Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Anglo-US tensions are heightened by a clash between the frigates Leopard and Chesapeake off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Napoleon launches an invasion of Portugal, increasing the likelihood of a Peninsular War | |
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| 1807 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot | |
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| 1807 |
| | | In Phenomenology of Spirit Friedrich Hegel interprets history as the advance of the human mind, often through thesis, antithesis and synthesis | |
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| 1807 |
| | | US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river | |
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| 1807 |
| | | George Canning is appointed British foreign secretary in the new administration of the Duke of Portland | |
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| 1807 |
| | | English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Thomas Jefferson puts an embargo on US exports, hoping to damage the economy of France and Britain | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Baroness Howe acquires Pope's Villa. | |
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