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| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Republican Thomas Jefferson and Federalist Aaron Burr have an identical number of Electoral College votes in the US presidential election | |
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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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| 1801 |
| | | The US House of Representatives votes for Jefferson as president, after a dead heat between him and Burr in the Electoral College | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture invades the neighbouring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, and becomes ruler of of the whole island of Hispaniola | |
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| 1801 |
| | | British prime minister William Pitt resigns when George III vetoes Catholic emancipation, but is recalled three years later | |
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| 1801 |
| | | A powerful French force arrives in Saint-Domingue and recovers control of the colony, offering generous terms to the native leaders | |
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| 1802 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The treaty agreed at Amiens between France and Britain brings a welcome lull after ten years of warfare in Europe | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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