General
Population: 1.00 Billion*
- Entertainment: WRiters include Jane Porter, Schiller, Adamantois Coraes (Greece), Joseph Lancaster (education),
Art includes Henry Raeburn "The Macnab", Turner "Calais Pier", Benjamin West "Christ Healing the Sick"
Music includes Beethoven (sonata, "Symphony No. 3 Eroica), Haydn
- Population: World population reaches one billion
- Science: JJ Berzelius discovers Cerium
Lazare Carnot writes about the physics of movement
Lamarck writes about the physical body
- Technology: Fulton powers boat by steam
Henry Shrapnel invents explosive shell
- Deaths: Poet Johann Wilhelm Gleim, Statesman Samuel Adams, Poet Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Novelist Pierre AF Choderlos de Lachos,
Author Johann Gottfried von Herder, Dramatist Vittorio Alfieri, Rebel Robert Emmet executed, Philosopher Herder, Composer Franz Xavier Sussmayer,
Africa
- Mozambique: Portuguese explorers travel through SW Africa
Americas
- Haiti: Yellow Fever outbreak - destroys all but 3000 in French expedition
Asia
- India: Second Maratha war disrupts India 2 years – Marathas under Sindhia of Gwalior fight British to 1818
Famine, drought, war, locusts, and migration
Europe
- General: Napoleonic War between Britain and France over Malta until 1815
- Czechoslovakia: Technical college in Prague founded
- France: To fund Napoleonic wars, Louisiana territory sold to US
Plot to invade Britain
Conquest of Europe gets underway
- German States: French complete occupation of Hanover
Start of Kingdoms of Hells Kassel and Anhalt-Benburg
- Great Britain: Irish rebel leader Robert Emmet executed
- Italian States: End of Italian Este line (from 1135)
- Switzerland: Cantons regin independence in Act of Mediation
Building of Calcedonian Canal begins, ,
Middle East
Pacific
- Australia: Circumnavigation of Australia by Matthew Flinders complete – he names it
Joseph Samuels of New South Wales fails to be hanged after two ropes break and one stretches – man that Samuels named as truly guilty then hung
- Tasmania: Settlers begin to arrive