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Virtuoso violinist Nicolo Paganini gives his first public performances, in churches in his native Genoa
William Blake's volume Songs of Innocence and Experience includes his poem 'Tyger! Tyger! burning bright'
Dutch Boers begin calling themselves Afrikaners, to emphasize that Africa is their native land
Mungo Park sets off on his first expedition to explore the Niger on behalf of the African Association
The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic
Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity
A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism
The 26-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte comes to public attention for his part in saving the Convention in Paris from an assault by rebels
With the Dutch entering the war on the side of the French, Britain seizes their valuable Cape colony in South Africa
Poland's neighbours – Russia, Prussia and Austria – are all on hand for the final partition of the kingdom
A treaty negotiated by US minister Thomas Pinckney provides a temporary resolution of disputes between Spain and the USA
Napoleon marries Josephine de Beauharnais, widow of Alexandre de Beauharnais, guillotined in 1794
In Berkeley, Gloucestershire, Edward Jenner inoculates a boy with cowpox in the pioneering case of vaccination
Napoleon Bonaparte takes command of the French army of Italy, with astonishingly successful results
French astronomer Pierre-Simon Laplace publishes his nebular hypothesis, arguing that the planets formed from a mass of incandescent gas
Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone sails from France to invade Ireland with a force of 14,000 French soldiers
On 18 Fructidor (September 4) Napoleon organizes, from a distance, a coup d'étât in Paris on behalf of three of the Directors
Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France
Samuel Taylor Coleridge says that while writing Kubla Khan he is interrupted by 'a person on business from Porlock'
Napoleon achieves the peace of Campo Formio, by which Austria cedes the Austrian Netherlands and northern Italy to France
By the Treaty of Campo Formio the free republic of Venice, created by Napoleon, is handed over to Austrian rule
Napoleon, with distinguished scientists in his fleet, sails to invade Egypt
British explorer George Bass sails round Tasmania in an open whaleboat, discovering the strait which now bears his name
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
Irish nationalist Wolfe Tone, convicted of treason for his failed invasion, cuts his throat to cheat the British gallows
