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Karageorge captures Belgrade and wins a limited independence for Serbia within the Ottoman empire
French painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres moves to Rome and lives there for 18 years
To counteract Napoleon's Continental System, Britain passes orders in council penalizing any vessel trading into French-held ports
English chemist Humphry Davy uses electrolysis to isolate the elements sodium and potassium
A Scottish clergyman, Alexander Forsyth, invents the percussion cap to help in his pursuit of wildfowl
Napoleon and the Russian tsar Alexander I meet on a raft at Tilsit and set about carving up Europe
Part of Poland is recovered from Prussia to become the grand duchy of Warsaw, a small state dependent upon Napoleon
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
Napoleon launches an invasion of Portugal, increasing the likelihood of a Peninsular War
The Portuguese royal family flees to Brazil on the approach of a French army led by Jean-Andoche Junot
George Canning is appointed British foreign secretary in the new administration of the Duke of Portland
English collector Thomas Hope publishes his Greek and Egyptian designs in Household Furniture and Interior Decoration
Louis-Napoleon, the future Napoleon III, is born in Paris, the son of Napoleon's brother Louis and of Josephine's daughter Hortense
The British government uses Freetown, in Sierra Leone, as a base in the fight against the slave trade
A French army under Joachim Murat advances on Madrid, causing the Spanish royal family to flee
Napoleon transfers his brother Joseph Bonaparte from the throne of Naples to that of Spain
Napoleon gives the throne of Naples, vacated by his brother Joseph, to Joachim Murat
The French capture of Madrid provokes a British response and the resulting Peninsular War
An uprising in Madrid, brutally put down by the French, is vividly depicted by the Spanish painter Goya
Russia, after winning much of Finland from Sweden during the previous century, invades again in 1808
A British army under Arthur Wellesley (later duke of Wellington) defeats the French at Vimeiro, near Lisbon
The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms
With acts of defiance in Sucre, Bolivia becomes the first American province to rebel against the Spanish authorities
Ranjit Singh, maharaja of the Punjab, agrees an eastern boundary between himself and the British in the Treaty of Amritsar
