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Events relating to america
The US public is outraged by news of the XYZ Affair, in which the French ask for bribes before being willing to negotiate a treaty
US author Charles Brockden Brown publishes Wieland, the first of four novels setting Gothic romance in an American context
Controversial Alien and Sedition Acts are passed by the US Congress as emergency measures in response to the perceived threat of war with France
The tsar, Paul I, establishes the Russian-American Company with the express purpose of developing Alaska
Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control
The Library of Congress, the US national library in all but name, is founded in Washington
US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone
Republican Thomas Jefferson and Federalist Aaron Burr have an identical number of Electoral College votes in the US presidential election
The US House of Representatives votes for Jefferson as president, after a dead heat between him and Burr in the Electoral College
Toussaint L'Ouverture invades the neighbouring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, and becomes ruler of of the whole island of Hispaniola
A powerful French force arrives in Saint-Domingue and recovers control of the colony, offering generous terms to the native leaders
Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison
In Marbury v. Madison, a landmark example of judicial review, the US Supreme Court declares an act of Congress to be unconstitutional
In the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson buys from Napoleon nearly a million square miles at a knock-down price, doubling the size of the USA
The independence of Haiti from France is proclaimed by a new black ruler calling himself the emperor Jacques I
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set off from St Louis to explore up the Missouri river and west to the coast
Alexander Hamilton is fatally wounded by a bullet to the head in a duel with his political adversary Aaron Burr
George Rapp and his followers establish a utopian community in Pennsylvania and call it Harmony
Lewis and Clark make their way through the Rockies and reach the Pacific
Tecumseh's younger brother, Tenskwatawa, becomes known as the Shawnee Prophet
The Creole militia of Buenos Aires drive out an English force which has captured the city
Lewis and Clark get back to St Louis with a wealth of information about the unopened west of the continent
Congress sets up the US Coast Survey to map and chart the country's coastline
Legislation abolishing the slave trade is passed in both Britain and America
Anglo-US tensions are heightened by a clash between the frigates Leopard and Chesapeake off the coast of Norfolk, Virginia
