General
Population: 980 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Maria Edgeworth, Thomas Morton (comedy where Mrs. Grundy first mentioned), Jean Paul, Schiller, Mme. de Stael,
Fitche, Arnold Heeren (politics), Schelling (idealism)
Art includes David "Mme. Recamier", Goya "Portrait of a Woman"
Music includes Boieldieu, Cherubini, Haydn "The Seasons"
- Fashion: Begin era known as "Romantic Age"
Change in fashion favors short hair and Greek-style dresses
- Medicine: German physician F.J. Gall founds practice of phrenology
- Religion: Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti elected Pope Pius VII
- Science: Humphrey Davy writes about nitrous oxide
Erasmus Darwin publishes on plant physiology
Lamarck proposes evolution and coins "biology"
William Herschel discovers existence of infrared solar rays (IR and UV)
- Sports: Bill Richmond a former slave becomes popular boxer
- Technology: Volta invents electric cell (zinc/copper) (voltaic pile)
Richard Trevithick constructs light-pressure steam engine
Eli Whitney makes muskets with interchangeable parts
Henry Maudslay invents precision screw-cutting lathe
- Deaths: Composer Nicola Puccini, Poet William Cowper, General Jean Baptiste Kleber
Robert Owen takes over New Lanark mills and starts social reforms, Prosser plans slave revolt,
Africa
- East Africa: Kingdom of Buganda grows powerful - elephants hunted and shipped to Europe
- Egypt: French army advances on Cairo
Americas
- Canada: Ottawa founded
- Haiti: (St. Dominique)Former slave Toussaint L'Ouverture establishes Haiti – first independent Latin American state
Asia
- Indonesia: Tsunami
- Java: Mt. Guntur erupts
Europe
- General: Beaver hats become popular in Europe
- France: Napoleon establishes himself as first Consul in the Tuileries
Plot to assassinate Napoleon discovered in Paris
Napoleon appoints committee of jurists to write up Civil Code
Napoleon establishes Society to Encourage French inventors
Napoleon secures Louisiana from Spain
Livingston and Monroe go to Paris
- German States: Letter post introduced in Berlin
- Great Britain: Industrial revolution
Tuberculosis outbreak
Royal College of Surgeons in London founded
Act of Union between Britain and Ireland
Combination Acts forbid British workers uniting to form trade unions
- Italian States: French retake papal states
Napoleon's army crosses Great St. Bernard Pass – defeats Austrians at Marengo and conquers Italy
- Holy Roman Empire: Napoleon defeats Austrians at Biberach Hochstadt and Hohenlinden advances on Vienna
Battle of Marengo
Grossglockner in the Austrian Alps first scaled
- Malta: Captured by British
- Russia: Russia withdraws from confronting France
Georgia annexed
- Spain: Plague outbreak
Yellow Fever outbreak
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: French army defeats Turks at Heliopolis
Pacific
- Easter Island: End of century of civil war in Easter Island region