General
Population: 1.01 Billion*
- Entertainment: Writers include Chateaubriand (romance), Walter Scott, Robert Southey, Hosea Ballou (Atonement), Lord Liverpool (British coins),
Art includes Goya "Dona Isabel Cobos de Procal", Philipp Otto Runge "The Morning",
Music includes Beethoven, Paganini,
- Science: F.W.A. Sarturner isolates morphine
- Deaths: Artist Jean Baptiste Greuze, Sculptor Thomas Banks, Composer Luigi Boccherini, Admiral Horatio Nelson, Actor AW Iffland,
Writer Schiller,
Africa
- Egypt: Breaks away from Ottoman empire
Mohammed (Mehmet) Ali rules as Pasha
Start of modern Egypt
- North Africa: Treaty with ruler of Tripoli US Marines capture port of Derna in Tripolean war
- West Africa: Mungo Park explores Niger River
Americas
- General: Break between Britain and US over trade with West Indies
Asia
- China: Christian literature forbidden
- India: End of second Maratha War
Arthur Wellesley later Duke of Wellington resigns
Europe
- General: Battles of Trafalgar (British victory over French and Spanish) and Austerlitz (French and Russia won by Napoleon)
Treaty of St. Petersburg by Britain and Russia against France joined by Austria
Third Coalition battles Napoleon
- France: Napoleon abandons French revolutionary calendar
Britain's Essex case bans neutrals from trading with France
French navy defeated at Battle of Trafalgar
- German States: Bavaria and Wurttemberg become kingdoms – Baden becomes a grand duchy
- Great Britain: Rockets reintroduced as weapons into the British army
Lord Nelson destroys French and Spanish fleets, but is killed
- Holy Roman Empire: Austrians beaten by French at Ulm
- Italian States: Napoleon crowned as King of Italy in Milan Cathedral
- Spain: Disease in Spain and Gibraltar
- Switzerland: Pestalozzi school at Yverdun
Middle East