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Telford proposes a bold new London Bridge       
Telford's design for London Bridge, 1800
Guildhall Library
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Napoleon appoints a commission to prepare a code of civil law, which becomes known as the Code Napoléon       
1800
 
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Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control       
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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
Mary Evans Picture Library

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Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism       
1800
 
   
Beethoven seeks medical advice for a very alarming condition, an increasing deafness      
1800
 
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Napoleon takes a French army through the Alps before the snows have cleared, and defeats the Austrians at Marengo       
Jacques-Louis David, Bonaparte crossing Alps, 1801 (Château de Malmaison)


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Republican Thomas Jefferson and Federalist Aaron Burr have an identical number of Electoral College votes in the US presidential election       
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Nelson and the Hamiltons visit Haydn, who composes a cantata on the Battle of the Nile for Emma Hamilton to sing