General
Population: 1.05 Billion*
- Entertainment: Writers include brothers Jacob Ludwig Carl and Wilhelm Carl Grimm Kinder und Haus-Märchen (Fairy Tales),
Lord Byron, John Nichols, HF Genesius Hebrew and Chaldaic Dictionary, Hegel, WM Leake Greece, Laplace writes Theorie analytique
Art includes Goya "Portrait of the Duke of Wellington",
Music includes Beethoven
Beethoven and Goethe meet at Teplitz
- Science: Georges Cuvier writes about quadruped fossils
Humphry Davy writes about chemical philosophy
Cuvier identifies pterosaurs
- Technology: First tin cans produced
Philippe Girard invents machine for spinning flax
Joseph Marie Jacquard given medal for automatic loom that worked on punch cards
- Deaths: Diplomat Joel Barlow, Composer Johann Ludwig Dussek, Prime Minister Spencer Perceval,
Mine explosion kills 92 boys and leads to development of safety lamp made by Sir Humphrey Davy,
Hurricane ruins 53 ships, ,
Africa
Americas
- Canada: Red River Settlement in Manitoba founded
Napoleonic blockade helps start war of 1812
Attack by the United States
Ft. Ross built by Russians
- St. Vincent Island: Eruption of Soufriere
- Venezuela: Earthquake kills at least 20,000
Asia
- India: Famine, locusts, plague of rats, and starvation
Europe
- Austria: Founding of Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
- France: In Russia army of 550,000 reduced to 20,000
Conspiracy of General Claude François Malet against Napoleon during emperor's absence in Russia – attempt to end war and install Louis XVIII fails
- German States: Prussia agrees to allow French troops free passage in case of war with Russia
Jews in Prussia emancipated
- Great Britain: British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval assassinated in House of Commons
Start of Anglo-American War (of 1812)
Drury Lane Theater erected
Baptist Union of Great Britain formed
Elgin marbles brought from Greece
The steamship Comet operates on Clyde River in Scotland under Henry Bell
Royal Yacht Squadron formed
Gas Light and Coke Company founded in London by F.A. Winsor
Merchants protest and Brits repeal Orders of Council and allows trade with US - US declares war as they were unaware
- Russia: Napoleon enters and defeats at Smolensk and Borodino
Napoleon reaches Moscow, it burns and French retreats to France
Supposedly Tsar Alexander the Great requests Russians burn Moscow to prevent French from advancing
French army of 550,000 reduced to 20,000
Treaty of St. Petersburg with Sweden
Wife of Russian General Count Toutschkoff dreams of her husband dying at Borodino fighting Napoleon
- Spain: Duke of Wellington enters Madrid to stop Napoleonic advance - Battle of Salamanca
- Sweden: Treaty of St. Petersburg between Sweden and Russia
- Switzerland: Swiss explorer JL Burckhardt discovers great temple of Abu Simbel,
Middle East
- Ottoman Empire: Plague outbreak in Turkey
Pacific