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| | | The Act of Union comes into effect, linking Ireland with Britain to form the United Kingdom | |
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| | | The US House of Representatives votes for Jefferson as president, after a dead heat between him and Burr in the Electoral College | |
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| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture invades the neighbouring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, and becomes ruler of of the whole island of Hispaniola | |
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| | | British prime minister William Pitt resigns when George III vetoes Catholic emancipation, but is recalled three years later | |
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| | | Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour | |
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| | | Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII | |
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| | | Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations | |
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| | | The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million | |
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| | | A powerful French force arrives in Saint-Domingue and recovers control of the colony, offering generous terms to the native leaders | |
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| | | Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor | |
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