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| 1803 |
| | | The peace of Amiens comes to an abrupt end when Britain declares war again on France | |
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| 1803 |
| | | English chemist John Dalton reads a paper describing his Law of Partial Pressure in gases (discovered in 1801) | |
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| 1803 |
| | | At the end of his Partial Pressure paper, John Dalton makes brief mention of his radical theory of differing atomic weights | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Richard Trevithick runs the first locomotive on rails, pulling heavy weights a distance of 9 miiles (15 km) near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales | |
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| 1804 |
| | | William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton | |
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| 1805 |
| | | The first barge is pulled by a horse along Thomas Telford's cast-iron canal aqueduct, high in the air at Pont Cysyllte | |
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| 1805 |
| | | With advice from Thomas Daniell, Samuel Pepys Cockerell builds himself a house, Sezincote, with a roof line of fanciful Indian domes | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Lord Castlereagh becomes secretary of state for war in William Pitt's government | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon imposes his Continental System, designed to strangle Britain's trade | |
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