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1800s timeline
1800
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
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
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
The Act of Union comes into effect, linking Ireland with Britain to form the United Kingdom
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