General
Population: 1.07 Billion*
- Communication: Capt. Charles Barbier de la Serre devised alphabet of dots and dashes raised to be read at night – later simplified by Braille
- Entertainment: Writers include Byron, Goethe, Victor Hugo Odes, Keats Hyperion, Shelley, Jakob Grimm German Grammar,
Georg Hermes (theology), Schopenhauer, Jean Sismondi (economics), Horace Wilson (Sanskrit-English dictionary), Scott Ivanhoe
Art includes Theodore Gericault "The Raft of Medusa", Thorvaldsen "Christ and the Twelve Apostles", Turner "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage",
Adam Cole (early American)
Music includes Beethoven loses his hearing
- Science: Oersted discovers electromagnetism
- Technology: David Napler constructs the flat-bed cylinder press for printing
Wood patents iron plow
- Transportation: Steamship crosses Atlantic
- Deaths: King Kamehameha I, Author John Wolcot (Peter Pindar), General Gebhard von Blucher, Queen Maria Luisa Teresa of Spain, Inventor James Watt,
Naval Hero Oliver Hazard Perry, Playwright AUgust Friedrich Ferdinand von Lotzebue (assassinated)
Pomare II establishes Society Island's legal code, Bay St. Louis Hurricane kills 175 in AL July, Mitscherlich discovers isomorphism,
Africa
- Egypt: Mehmet Ali presents Cleopatra's Needle to Britain (see 1475 BC and 1878)
- South Africa: Rise of Zulus under Shaka - Mfecane Wars begin
Americas
- General: First sighting of Champ the moster of Lake Champlain on NY-VT border
- Gran Colombia: Forms when Liberated from Spain by Simón Bolivar at Boyacá- present-day Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Panama
Asia
- India: End of last Maratha War in India – British rule India except Punjab, Sind and Kashmir
Tsunami
Famine
Kashmir conquered by Sikh leader Ranjit Singh
- Singapore: Founded by Stamford Raffles of East India Company of Britain - free-trade port
Europe
- General: August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue the German playwright assassinated as Russian agent at Mannheim
- France: Freedom of the Press
Diphtheria in France
- German States: Constitutions for Wurttemberg and Hanover
KF Schinkel builds the Schauspielhaus in Berlin
Carlsbad Decrees in Germany suppress political activities
Zolverein (customs union) begins in Germany
- Great Britain: Mehmet Ali presents Cleopatra's Needle to Britain (see 1475 BC and 1878)
Opening of Burlington Arcade in Picadilly London
Peterloo Massacre – soldiers fire agains political meeting in Manchester – several killed
Maximum of 12-hour workday for juveniles
Typhus in Ireland
irst tarmacadam roads laid in Britain
English man executed for stealing letters
British pass Six Acts which limit personal freedoms due to social unrest - reformers temporarily frustrated
- Spain: Spain and Us sign Adams-Onis Treaty giving US East and Spain lets go of Oregon territory
Middle East
Pacific
- Hawaii: Death of King Kamehameha I and Kamehameha II abolishes system of gender separation