 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1800 |
| | | Napoleon appoints a commission to prepare a code of civil law, which becomes known as the Code Napoléon | |
| |
|
| 1800 |
| | | Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism | |
| |
|
| 1800 |
| | | Napoleon takes a French army through the Alps before the snows have cleared, and defeats the Austrians at Marengo | |
| |
|
| 1801 |
| | | The Act of Union comes into effect, linking Ireland with Britain to form the United Kingdom | |
| |
|
| 1801 |
| | | British prime minister William Pitt resigns when George III vetoes Catholic emancipation, but is recalled three years later | |
| |
|
| 1801 |
| | | Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour | |
| |
|
| 1801 |
| | | Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII | |
| |
|
| 1801 |
| | | Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations | |
| |
|
| 1801 |
| | | Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor | |
| |
|
| 1802 |
| | | The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |