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Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, is killed fighting the British at Seringapatam
Napoleon abandons his army in Egypt and returns hastily to Paris at a time of great political opportunity
Napoleon contrives a military coup that ends the Directory and gives him sweeping powers as First Consul
The Queen’s Head pub is built in the orchard of John Dee’s house
Publication begins of Pierre-Simon Laplace's 5-volume Méchanique Céleste ('Celestial Mechanics'), bringing together a vast survey of the mathematical methods of astronomical analysis
Telford proposes a bold new London Bridge
Napoleon appoints a commission to prepare a code of civil law, which becomes known as the Code Napoléon
Italian physicist Alessandro Volta describes to the Royal Society in London how his 'pile' of discs can produce electric current
Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control
The Library of Congress, the US national library in all but name, is founded in Washington
US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone
Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism
Beethoven seeks medical advice for a very alarming condition, an increasing deafness
Napoleon takes a French army through the Alps before the snows have cleared, and defeats the Austrians at Marengo
Republican Thomas Jefferson and Federalist Aaron Burr have an identical number of Electoral College votes in the US presidential election
Nelson and the Hamiltons visit Haydn, who composes a cantata on the Battle of the Nile for Emma Hamilton to sing
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck gives a lecture describing in outline his theory of evolution, based on the transmutation of species and the inheritance of acquired characteristics
The Act of Union comes into effect, linking Ireland with Britain to form the United Kingdom
The US House of Representatives votes for Jefferson as president, after a dead heat between him and Burr in the Electoral College
Toussaint L'Ouverture invades the neighbouring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, and becomes ruler of of the whole island of Hispaniola
British prime minister William Pitt resigns when George III vetoes Catholic emancipation, but is recalled three years later
Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour
Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII
Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations
The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million
