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| 1805 |
| | | Napoleon enters Vienna and then defeats an Austrian and Russian army at Austerlitz | |
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| 1805 |
| | | The first version of Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio, is performed in Vienna under the title Leonore | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Lord Castlereagh becomes secretary of state for war in William Pitt's government | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Lewis and Clark make their way through the Rockies and reach the Pacific | |
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| 1805 |
| | | Walter Scott publishes The Lay of the Last Minstrel, the long romantic poem that first brings him fame | |
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| 1806 |
| | | The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Francis II formally brings to an end the 1000-year-old Holy Roman Empire, to keep it from the clutches of Napoleon | |
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| c. 1806 |
| | | Tecumseh's younger brother, Tenskwatawa, becomes known as the Shawnee Prophet | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon announces that Holland is to be a kingdom, with his 28-year-old brother Louis Bonaparte on the throne | |
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| 1806 |
| | | The Carbonari, an Italian group of revolutionaries, make their first appearance in Naples in opposition to French rule | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon merges the majority of the German states into a Confederation of the Rhine with himself as its protector | |
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| 1806 |
| | | The Creole militia of Buenos Aires drive out an English force which has captured the city | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Lewis and Clark get back to St Louis with a wealth of information about the unopened west of the continent | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Napoleon imposes his Continental System, designed to strangle Britain's trade | |
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| 1806 |
| | | Karageorge captures Belgrade and wins a limited independence for Serbia within the Ottoman empire | |
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| 1806 |
| | | French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years | |
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| 1807 |
| | | To counteract Napoleon's Continental System, Britain passes orders in council penalizing any vessel trading into French-held ports | |
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| 1807 |
| | | English chemist Humphry Davy uses electrolysis to isolate the elements sodium and potassium | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Congress sets up the US Coast Survey to map and chart the country's coastline | |
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| 1807 |
| | | A Scottish clergyman, Alexander Forsyth, invents the percussion cap to help in his pursuit of wildfowl | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Napoleon and the Russian tsar Alexander I meet on a raft at Tilsit and set about carving up Europe | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Part of Poland is recovered from Prussia to become the grand duchy of Warsaw, a small state dependent upon Napoleon | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Anglo-US tensions are heightened by a clash between the frigates Leopard and Chesapeake off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Napoleon launches an invasion of Portugal, increasing the likelihood of a Peninsular War | |
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| 1807 |
| | | The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot | |
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| 1807 |
| | | In Phenomenology of Spirit Friedrich Hegel interprets history as the advance of the human mind, often through thesis, antithesis and synthesis | |
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| 1807 |
| | | US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river | |
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| 1807 |
| | | George Canning is appointed British foreign secretary in the new administration of the Duke of Portland | |
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| 1807 |
| | | English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration | |
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| 1807 |
| | | Thomas Jefferson puts an embargo on US exports, hoping to damage the economy of France and Britain | |
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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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| 1808 |
| | | A French army under Joachim Murat advances on Madrid, causing the Spanish royal family to flee | |
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