General
Population: 1.02 Billion*
- Entertainment: Writers include Kleist (village comedy), Jane and Ann Taylor write nursery rhymes, JC Adelung Mithridates - a History of Languages and Dialects,
Goethe marries Christiane Vulpis, Fichte,
Art includes Thorvaldsen sculpts "Hebe", David Wilke "Village Politicians"
Music includes Arnim and Brentano collects German folk songs, Beethoven, Rossini,
- Science: Humphrey Davy discovers electrolytic method for preparing potassium and soda
P.A. Latrelle writes about insects and crustaceans
Sir Francis Beaufort composes scale (0-12) to indicate wind strength
- Deaths: Artist George Stubbs, General Horatio Gates, Artist Jean Honore Fragonard, Statesman Robert Morris, Philosopher Charles Augustin de Coulomb,
Architect Henry Holland, Revolutionary Henry Knox, Cabinetmaker Thomas Sheraton, Artist Kitagawa Utamaro, Composer Vincente Martin y Soler,
Statesman William Pitt the Younger, Emperor Francis II, Secretary Charles James Fox, Fragonard
Africa
- East Africa: Dayyid Said reasserts Omani power in E Africa
- South Africa: British occupy Cape of Good Hope taking control from Dutch Cape Colony
- West Africa: Mungo Park explores Niger River
Americas
- General: Francisco de Miranda sails from New York to South American (revolutionary)
Wars of Independence begin in South America
- Argentina: Buenos Aires repels British
- Dominica: Hurricane and flood
- Guadelupe: Hurricand and flood
- Martinique: Yellow Fever hits
Europe
- General: Holy Roman Empire ends with Confederation of the Rhine - most German states under French domination
- Austria: Emperor Francis II HRE becomes Francis I of Austria to 1835
- France: Institut de France created by combining academies
Napoleon establishes organization for Jews in France
Claude Clodion begins Arc de Triomphe in Paris
- German States: Prussia declares war on France
Following victories at Jena-Auerstädt Napoleon enters Berlin
Napoleon's Berlin Decree begins "Continental System" closing Continental ports to British vessels
Peace of Posen – Saxony made a kingdom
After Napoleon's victories Prussia begins a change in education of soldiers
Start of German empire of Württemberg, Kingdom of Saxony, Kingdoms of Baden and Bavaria
- Great Britain: Britain blockades French coast
British cotton industry employs 90,000 factory workers and 184,000 weavers
Beginning of building of Dartmoor Prison
First Gentlemen v. Players cricket match
- Holland: Louis Bonaparte named King
- Holy Roman Empire: Ended by Napoleon - crown surrendered by Habsburg Francis II
Replaced with Confederation of the Rhine
- Italy: Joseph Bonaparte named King of Naples
Brera Gallery in Milan opens
- Poland: French army under Murat enters Warsaw
- Switzerland: Landslide in Goldau Valley
Middle East
- Oman: Imam Sayyid Said begins to rule
- Ottoman Empire: Turkey at war with Russia and Britain