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After two rapid victories in north Italy, Napoleon marches on Turin and the king of Sardinia asks for an armistice
Napoleon creates in northern Italy the Cisalpine Republic, formed from occupied territores including the papal states of Bologna and Ferrara
York House has various owners and tenants, being bought by Count, later Prince, Starhemberg, Austrian Ambassador who instals a private chapel.
Napoleon changes the spelling of his family name from Buonaparte to the more French-seeming Bonaparte
In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination
Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results
French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes his nebular hypothesis, arguing that the planets formed from a mass of incandescent gas
US author Joel Barlow publishes his mock-heroic poem The Hasty Pudding, inspired by a dish eaten in 1793 in France
George Washington selects the Cherokee Indians for an experiment in adaptation to 'civilization'
George Washington, resisting pressure for him to accept a third presidential term, delivers a farewell address to guide the nation's future
The election in the USA brings in a Federalist president (John Adams) and a Republican vice-president (Thomas Jefferson)
Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone sails from France to invade Ireland with a force of 14,000 French soldiers
German physician Samuel Hahnemann coins the term 'homeopathy' and describes this new approach to medicine
Napoleon marches against Vienna and is only two days from the city when the emperor requests an armistice
In Venice Napoleon deposes the last of the doges and sets up a provisional democracy
On 18 Fructidor (September 4) Napoleon organizes, from a distance, a coup d'étât in Paris on behalf of three of the Directors
Horace Walpole dies and the Strawberry Hill estate is left to his niece, Anne Seymour Damer, a well-known sculptress, for her lifetime.
Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France
The king's son, William, Duke of Clarence, becomes Keeper (or Ranger) of Bushy Park and establishes his mistress, the actress Dora Jordan, in Bushy House
Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock'
Napoleon achieves the peace of Campo Formio, by which Austria cedes the Austrian Netherlands and northern Italy to France
By the Treaty of Campo Formio the free republic of Venice, created by Napoleon, is handed over to Austrian rule
George Gostling II inherits Whitton Park and commisions Humphrey Repton to landscape the grounds.
Captain George Vancouver, who discovered Vancouver Island and retired to live in Petersham, is buried in St Peter’s
After four years in Copenhagen, German artist Caspar David Friedrich makes his life-long home in Dresden
