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The Carbonari, an Italian group of revolutionaries, make their first appearance in Naples in opposition to French rule
Napoleon merges the majority of the German states into a Confederation of the Rhine with himself as its protector
The Creole militia of Buenos Aires drive out an English force which has captured the city
Lewis and Clark get back to St Louis with a wealth of information about the unopened west of the continent
Napoleon imposes his Continental System, designed to strangle Britain's trade
Karageorge captures Belgrade and wins a limited independence for Serbia within the Ottoman empire
French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years
To counteract Napoleon's Continental System, Britain passes orders in council penalizing any vessel trading into French-held ports
English chemist Humphry Davy uses electrolysis to isolate the elements sodium and potassium
J M W Turner, the artist, buys a plot of land in Twickenham. The site is bounded by what are now Sandycombe Road and St Margaret's Road. Turner also buys a separate plot nearby.
Congress sets up the US Coast Survey to map and chart the country's coastline
A Scottish clergyman, Alexander Forsyth, invents the percussion cap to help in his pursuit of wildfowl
Napoleon and the Russian tsar Alexander I meet on a raft at Tilsit and set about carving up Europe
Part of Poland is recovered from Prussia to become the grand duchy of Warsaw, a small state dependent upon Napoleon
Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America
Anglo-US tensions are heightened by a clash between the frigates Leopard and Chesapeake off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia
Napoleon launches an invasion of Portugal, increasing the likelihood of a Peninsular War
The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot
In Phenomenology of Spirit Friedrich Hegel interprets history as the advance of the human mind, often through thesis, antithesis and synthesis
US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river
George Canning is appointed British foreign secretary in the new administration of the Duke of Portland
English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration
Thomas Jefferson puts an embargo on US exports, hoping to damage the economy of France and Britain
Baroness Howe acquires Pope's Villa.
Louis-Napoleon, the future Napoleon III, is born in Paris, the son of Napoleon's brother Louis and of Josephine's daughter Hortense
