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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon's soldiers discover a black basalt slab, the Rosetta Stone, near the village of Rashid in Egypt | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon abandons his army in Egypt and returns hastily to Paris at a time of great political opportunity | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The USS Philadelphia is captured, with its 300 crew, in the first Barbary War between the US and north African pirate states | |
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| 1806 |
| | | The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch | |
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| 1808 |
| | | The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade | |
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| 1809 |
| | | The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms | |
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| 1809 |
| | | The Fulani establish a capital at Sokoto, from which they dominate the Hausa kingdoms of northern Nigeria | |
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| 1811 |
| | | All but one of 300 Mameluke guests are assassinated during an entertainment by Muhammad Ali in Cairo | |
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| 1815 |
| | | The congress of Vienna leaves the Cape of Good Hope in British hands | |
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