General
Population: 1.03 Billion*
- Culture: Charles Darwin and Abraham Lincoln born on same day
- Entertainment: Writers include Thomas Campbell, Chateaubriand, Goethe, Washington Irving Rip Van Winkle, Ivan Kriloff, Hannah More,
Schlegel (art and literature), David Ricardo (bank notes)
Art includes Constable "Malvern Hill", Kaspar Friedrich "Monch am Meer" Raeburn "Mrs. Spiers"
Music includes Beethoven, Spontini (opera)
- Religion: All property of Teutonic Order confiscated
- Science: Gauss writes about science
Lamarck writes about evolutionary theorie
William Maclure writes about US Geology
- Technology: S.T. von Sommering invents water voltameter telegraph
Louis Braille invents reading for the blind
- Deaths: Rama I of Thailand, Sculptor Augustin Pajou, Composer Franz Joseph Haydn, Patriot Thomas Paine, King Gustavus IV of Sweden,
Sir John Moore
Chuquisaca have violent outbreaks, Battle of Corunna is British defeat,
Africa
Americas
- General: French lose Martinique and Cayenne to British
New Granada dissolves when Venezuela independent
- Bolivia: Violence
- Brazil: Royal family of Portugal moves to Rio de Janeiro
- Ecuador: Independence from Spain in violent outbreaks
Asia
- India: Treaty of friendship between Britain and the Sikhs at Amritsar
- Siam: Death of Rama I of Thailand
Europe
- General: War between France and Austria
British returns Minorca to Spain
- Austria: French army takes Vienna – is defeated as Aspern and defeats Austrians at Wagram
Metternich named chief minister and advisor to Francis I
Peace of Schonbrunn - Austria joins continental system
- France: Napoleon divorces Josephine
- German States: Friedrich Wilhelm U in Berlin founded
- Great Britain: Treaty of Dardanelles with Turkey
Construction of Bristol Harbor
Battle of Corunna is British defeat
Two Thousand Guineas established at Newmarket Races
Arthut Wellesley defeats French at Oporto and Talavera and is created Duke of Wellington – his brother Marquis Wellesley appointed Foreign secretary
Berners Street Hoax – turns address into celebrated location - see 1810
- Italy: Napoleon annexes Papal States, Pope Pius VII taken prisoner
- Portugal: Royal family moves to Brazil
- Russia: Conquered by Sweden
- Sweden: Death of King Gustavus IV - son Charles XIII rules - Marshall Jean Bernadotte elected Crown Prince
Conquered by Russians
Middle East
- Afghanistan: First agreement with Britain
- Ottoman Empire: Treaty of Dardanelles between Britain and Turkey
Pacific