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1800
 
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Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control       
1801
 
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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    See in Google maps   
1801
 
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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      
1802
 
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The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands       
1804
 
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The city of Hobart is founded on the southern coast of Tasmania       
1806
 
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The British recapture the Cape of Good Hope from the Dutch       
1806
 
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The Creole militia of Buenos Aires drive out an English force which has captured the city       
1807
 
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Napoleon and the Russian tsar Alexander I meet on a raft at Tilsit and set about carving up Europe        
Alexander and Napoleon at Tilsit, 19c print
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1809
 
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The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms      
1809
 
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The Treaty of Fort Wayne is the climax of seven years in which William Henry Harrison has acquired millions of acres from the American Indians