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1800
 
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Napoleon appoints a commission to prepare a code of civil law, which becomes known as the Code Napoléon       
1800
 
    
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta describes to the Royal Society in London how his 'pile' of discs can produce electric current       
Volta demonstrates his battery, colour print
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1800
 
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Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control       
1800
 
   
The Library of Congress, the US national library in all but name, is founded in Washington      
1800
 
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US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone       
White House, engraving after H. Brown, 1831
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1801
 
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The Act of Union comes into effect, linking Ireland with Britain to form the United Kingdom