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| 1800 |
| | | Nelson and the Hamiltons visit Haydn, who composes a cantata on the Battle of the Nile for Emma Hamilton to sing | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations | |
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| 1801 |
| | | The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million | |
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| 1804 |
| | | George Rapp and his followers establish a utopian community in Pennsylvania and call it Harmony | |
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| 1807 |
| | | US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river | |
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| 1814 |
| | | A cold February freezes the Thames and makes possible the last of London's famous frost fairs | |
|  | Frost fair on the Thames, watercolour, 1814
Guildhall Library
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| 1814 |
| | | The Rappists establish a second American community, this time in Indiana, calling it New Harmony | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Scottish engineer John McAdam builds the first macadamized road, in the Bristol region of southwest England | |
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| 1815 |
| | | Napoleon, held on a British warship off Torquay and hoping now to live in Britain, becomes an instant tourist attraction | |
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| 1821 |
| | | English radical William Cobbett begins his journeys round England, published in 1830 as Rural Rides | |
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