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| 1796 |
| | | George Washington selects the Cherokee Indians for an experiment in adaptation to 'civilization' | |
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| 1796 |
| | | George Washington, resisting pressure for him to accept a third presidential term, delivers a farewell address to guide the nation's future | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Napoleon creates in northern Italy the Cisalpine Republic, formed from occupied territores including the papal states of Bologna and Ferrara | |
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| 1796 |
| | | The election in the USA brings in a Federalist president (John Adams) and a Republican vice-president (Thomas Jefferson) | |
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| 1796 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone sails from France to invade Ireland with a force of 14,000 French soldiers | |
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| 1796 |
| | | German physician Samuel Hahnemann coins the term 'homeopathy' and describes this new approach to medicine | |
|  | Conflict between homeopathic and allopathic medicine
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| 1797 |
| | | Napoleon marches against Vienna and is only two days from the city when the emperor requests an armistice | |
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| 1797 |
| | | In Venice Napoleon deposes the last of the doges and sets up a provisional democracy | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France | |
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| 1797 |
| | | On 18 Fructidor (September 4) Napoleon organizes, from a distance, a coup d'étât in Paris on behalf of three of the Directors | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock' | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Napoleon achieves the peace of Campo Formio, by which Austria cedes the Austrian Netherlands and northern Italy to France | |
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| 1797 |
| | | By the Treaty of Campo Formio the free republic of Venice, created by Napoleon, is handed over to Austrian rule | |
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| 1798 |
| | | After four years in Copenhagen, German artist Caspar David Friedrich makes his life-long home in Dresden | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Napoleon, with distinguished scientists in his fleet, sails to invade Egypt | |
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| 1798 |
| | | British explorer George Bass sails round Tasmania in an open whaleboat, discovering the strait which now bears his name | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Austrian author Alois Senefelder, experimenting with grease and water on stone, discovers the principles of lithography | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Napoleon's campaign in Egypt begins well with the Battle of the Pyramids, a victory over an Egyptian army | |
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| 1798 |
| | | The US public is outraged by news of the XYZ Affair, in which the French ask for bribes before being willing to negotiate a treaty | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone, convicted of treason for his failed invasion, cuts his throat to cheat the British gallows | |
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| 1798 |
| | | US author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland, the first of four novels setting Gothic romance in an American context | |
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| 1798 |
| | | The British acquire a foothold in the Persian Gulf by making Oman a protectorate | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Disaster strikes the French in Egypt when Nelson finds their fleet in Aboukir Bay and destroys it in the Battle of the Nile | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Controversial Alien and Sedition Acts are passed by the US Congress as emergency measures in response to the perceived threat of war with France | |
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| 1798 |
| | | English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement | |
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| 1798 |
| | | Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' is published in Lyrical Ballads | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon's soldiers discover a black basalt slab, the Rosetta Stone, near the village of Rashid in Egypt | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon leads a costly, unsuccessful and plague-ridden expedition against the Turkish garrisons in Syria | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The tsar, Paul I, establishes the Russian-American Company with the express purpose of developing Alaska | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Haydn's oratorio The Creation has its first public performance in Vienna, in the Burgtheater | |
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