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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon, in Syria, orders 3000 captured defenders of Jaffa to be killed by bayonet or drowning to save ammunition | |
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| 1799 |
| | | In a famous moment of calculated courage Napoleon visits and touches the sick in a plague hospital in Jaffa | |
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| 1799 |
| | | A Sikh maharajah, Ranjit Singh, captures Lahore and makes it his capital in his campaign to unify the Punjab | |
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| 1799 |
| | | English surveyor William Smith compiles a manuscript, Order of the Strata, revealing chronology through fossils in rocks | |
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| 1799 |
| | | British prime minister William Pitt introduces income tax at 10% to pay for the war against France | |
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| 1799 |
| | | The British parliament passes a Combination Act, classing any association of labourers as a criminal conspiracy | |
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| 1799 |
| | | A Portuguese prince regent, the future John VI, rules on behalf of his deranged mother, Queen Maria | |
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| 1799 |
| | | Tipu Sultan, ruler of Mysore, is killed fighting the British at Seringapatam | |
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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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| 1799 |
| | | Napoleon contrives a military coup that ends the Directory and gives him sweeping powers as First Consul | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Napoleon appoints a commission to prepare a code of civil law, which becomes known as the Code Napoléon | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Italian physicist Alessandro Volta describes to the Royal Society in London how his 'pile' of discs can produce electric current | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control | |
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| 1800 |
| | | The Library of Congress, the US national library in all but name, is founded in Washington | |
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| 1800 |
| | | US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Beethoven seeks medical advice for a very alarming condition, an increasing deafness | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Napoleon takes a French army through the Alps before the snows have cleared, and defeats the Austrians at Marengo | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Republican Thomas Jefferson and Federalist Aaron Burr have an identical number of Electoral College votes in the US presidential election | |
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| 1800 |
| | | Nelson and the Hamiltons visit Haydn, who composes a cantata on the Battle of the Nile for Emma Hamilton to sing | |
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| 1801 |
| | | The Act of Union comes into effect, linking Ireland with Britain to form the United Kingdom | |
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| 1801 |
| | | 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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| 1801 |
| | | 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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| 1801 |
| | | British prime minister William Pitt resigns when George III vetoes Catholic emancipation, but is recalled three years later | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations | |
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| 1801 |
| | | The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million | |
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| 1801 |
| | | 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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| 1801 |
| | | Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours | |
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| 1802 |
| | | Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison | |
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| 1802 |
| | | A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal | |
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