General
Population: 1.04 Billion*
- Entertainment: Writers include Scott The Lady of the Lake, Mme. De Stael, Lazare Carnot (fort defense), Joseph de Maistre (politics)
Art includes Goya "Los Desastres de la Guerra", Sir Walter Scott
Music includes Beethoven for Goethe's "Egmont", Rossini, WYeth
- Medicine: Gall and Spurzheim write about the nervous system
Samuel Hahnemann founds homeopathy with "Oragnon of Theraprutics"li>
- Sports: Tom Molineaux (former slave) becomes internationally famous boxer
- Technology: François Appert develops techniques for canning food
- Deaths: Painter Johann Zoffany, Painter Jean-Jacques de Boissieu, Artist John Hoppner, Tirolean hero Andreas Hofer executed, Writer Charles Brockden Brown, Queen Louise of Prussia,
Artist Philipp Otto Runge, Scientist Henry Cavendish,
Africa
- South Africa: Zulu leader Chaka (Shaka) starts training army
Americas
- General: Simon Bolivar emerges as major figure in S American politics
Revolts in New Granada – Rio de la Plata and Mexico
- Argentina: Independence from Spain
- Chile: Attempted revolution defeated
- Guadaloupe: British sieze Guadaloupe – last French colony in W Indies
- Mexico: Father Miguel Hidalgo begins revolts against Spain (executed 1811)
Tristan da Cunha: (Refreshment Islands) settled
- Venezuela: Breaks away from New Granada (Spain)
Asia
Europe
- Austria: Andreas Hofer the Austrian freedom fighter against Napoleon executed at Mantua
- France: Year of Napoleon's zenith – marries Archduchess Marie Louise of Austria
Rambouillet orders sale of seized US ships
France annexes Holland
Decree of Fontainebleau (confiscation of British goods) and annexes Hanover Bremen Hamburg Lauenburg and Lubeck
French government starts to control sale of tobacco
- German States: Death of Queen Louise of Prussia
The Krupp Works open at Essen
"The Nazarenes" founded to revive German religious art
- Great Britain: King George III of Britain has golden jubilee – starts descent into insanity - son becomes Regent
First public billiards rooms in England at the Piazza in Covent Garden in London
Berners Street Hoax – Theodore Hook in Westminster London bets friend he could turn any address into the most-talked about for a week –
4000 letters later even the bank governor of England, Duke of York, Archbishop of Canterbury, and mayor of London arrive at the home of one Mrs. Tottenham,
- Holland: Louis King of Holland abdicates – France annexes Holland
- Italian States: San Carlo Opera House in Naples built
- Portugal: British troops in Portugal hold lines of Torres Vedras against French
- Russia: Russia extends dominion in central Asia
- Switzerland: Protestant revivalists in Geneva form Societe des Amis
Durham coal miners' strike, Non-Intercourse act expires
Middle East
Pacific
- Hawaii: King Kamehameha rules
Kingdom of Hawaii unites