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| 1802 |
| | | The treaty agreed at Amiens between France and Britain brings a welcome lull after ten years of warfare in Europe | |
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| 1802 |
| | | Josephine's daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, marries Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte | |
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| 1802 |
| | | At Heiligenstadt, near Vienna, Beethoven writes a letter, to be read only after his death, confronting the tragedy of his inexorable decline into deafness | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands | |
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| 1802 |
| | | English journalist William Cobbett launches a weekly newspaper, The Political Register, that he continues till his death in 1835 | |
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| 1802 |
| | | The Constitution of the Year XII (the twelfth year of the French Revolutionary Calendar) makes Napoleon First Consul for life | |
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| 1803 |
| | | Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild lends 20 million francs to the Danish government | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The peace of Amiens comes to an abrupt end when Britain declares war again on France | |
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| 1803 |
| | | In Marbury v. Madison, a landmark example of judicial review, the US Supreme Court declares an act of Congress to be unconstitutional | |
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| 1803 |
| | | Napoleon assembles an invasion fleet against Britain, where Martello towers are hastily built in preparation | |
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| 1803 |
| | | The uprising by Irish nationalist Robert Emmet ends in disaster when he marches on Dublin with only about 100 men | |
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| 1803 |
| | | In the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson buys from Napoleon nearly a million square miles at a knock-down price, doubling the size of the USA | |
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| 1803 |
| | | English chemist John Dalton reads a paper describing his Law of Partial Pressure in gases (discovered in 1801) | |
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| 1803 |
| | | At the end of his Partial Pressure paper, John Dalton makes brief mention of his radical theory of differing atomic weights | |
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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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| 1804 |
| | | The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new black ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques I | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon sends an ill-judged message to royalist opponents when he orders the seizure and execution of the young duke of Enghien | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Richard Trevithick runs the first locomotive on rails, pulling heavy weights a distance of 9 miiles (15 km) near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off from St Louis to explore up the Missouri river and west to the coast | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon has himself proclaimed emperor of France by the Senate | |
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| 1804 |
| | | The city of Hobart is founded on the southern coast of Tasmania | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Beethoven changes the dedication of his third symphony on hearing that his hero, Napoleon, has made himself an emperor | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Alexander Hamilton is fatally wounded by a bullet to the head in a duel with his political adversary Aaron Burr | |
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| 1804 |
| | | William Blake includes his poem 'Jerusalem' in the Preface to his book Milton | |
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| 1804 |
| | | Napoleon crowns himself emperor of the French in a magnificent ceremony in Notre Dame | |
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| 1804 |
| | | George Rapp and his followers establish a utopian community in Pennsylvania and call it Harmony | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Napoleon has himself crowned king of Italy in the cathedral in Milan | |
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| 1805 |
| | | The first barge is pulled by a horse along Thomas Telford's cast-iron canal aqueduct, high in the air at Pont Cysyllte | |
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| 1805 |
| | | With advice from Thomas Daniell, Samuel Pepys Cockerell builds himself a house, Sezincote, with a roof line of fanciful Indian domes | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Horatio Nelson dies on the deck of the Victory after winning the battle of Trafalgar | |
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