General
Population: 1.06 Billion*
- Entertainment: Writers include Jane Austen Mansfield Park, Byron The Corsair, ETA Hoffman, Scott, Wordsworth,
Chateaubriand writes about Buonapartes and Bourbons, Savigny,
Art includes Goya "The Second of May" and "The Third of May", Ingres "L'Odalisque", Thomas Lawrence "The Congress of Vienna",
Music includes Beethoven "Fidelio", John Field, Schubert, Francis Scott Key "Defense of Fort McHenry" (Star Spangled Banner), Waltz first danced in high society in Vienna - spreads to European countries nearly immediately
- Science: Berzelius writes theories of chemicals
MJB Orfila writes "Toxicologie generale"
- Technology: J.N. Maelzel invents metronome
George Stephenson constructs first practical steam locomotive in Britain
Lowell builds textile mill
- Deaths: Music historian Charles Burney, French physician Joseph Guillotin, Sculptor Claude Michel (Clodion), Statesman Elbridge Gerry, Composer Charles Didbin,
Engineer Joseph Bramah, Musician Georg "Abbe" Vogler, Adventurer Benjamin Thompson Count Rumford, Philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Actor AW Iffland,
Africa
- South Africa: Cape Colony ceded to Britain
Americas
- General: End of first round of wars for independence in Latin America
- British Guiana: Claimed by British
- Canada: War of 1812 - British flotilla captured on Lake Champlain
- Mexico: United Provinces of Central America secede from Mexico
Asia
- India: First Anglican bishop in India at Calcutta
India and Nepal fight over borders to 1816
- Japan: Kurozumi sect founded in Japan (modern Shintoism)
- Java: Netherlands regains control
- Nepal: Lord Hastings Governor-General of India declares war on the Ghurkas of Nepal
- Philippines: Eruption of Mt. Mayon
- Sumatra: Netherlands regains control
Europe
- General: Congress of Vienna opens - includes six sovereigns - Russia, Austria, Denmark, Austria, Bavaria, Wurttemberg and other leaders
- France: Fall of Napoleonic system
Murat deserts Napoleon and joins Allies
Allied armies defeat French at La Rothiere Bar-sur-Aube and Laon and enter Paris
Napoleon abdicates and is banished to Elba
Louis XVIII enters Paris and takes up throne as hereditary right to 1824
Defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo - British under Wellington, Prussians under Blücher at Waterloo
- German States: Hanover proclaimed a kingdom
- Great Britain: Treaty of Ghent ends War of 1812 (Anglo-American War)
Repeal of English Parliament acts for relief of the poor and regulating apprentices
Dulwich gallery in London opens
London "Times" printed on steam-operated press
MCC London move to Lord's Cricket Ground
English statute of Apprentices repealed from 1563
First steam locomotive in Britain
St. Margaret's win
Westminster becomes first district illuminated by gas
London Beer Flood destroys two homes 9 die – 8 from drowning 1 from alcohol poisoning
- Italian States: Pope Pius VII returns to Rome and restores the Inquisition
Rome demands return of stolen documents
Kingdom of Italy (Napoleonid) ends
Start of Sovereign Principality of Elba
- Norway: Christian Frederick of Denmark elected King of Norway
- Russia: Edmund Kean's debut (as Shylock) at Drury Lane Theater in Russia
- Spain: End of Peninsular War
Inquisition returns to Spain after Napoleonic era – Spain hunts supporters of France
- Sweden: Treaty of Kiel – Sweden gains Norway
Middle East
Pacific