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this is also the earliest day under the United States Constitution that an amendment could be made restricting slavery. (How the Mighty have fallen! Why didn't they do that in the first place, pray tell?)
Maybe because most of the Founding Fathers owned slaves?
Oh, while I'm here -
1807 -
Slave Trade abolished in the British Empire
Louis Agassiz born
H.W. Longfellow born
Constitution of Hayti - (article 2 "Slavery in Hayti is forever abolished")
And the Napoleonic War was still in full swing in Europe.
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1806
No doubt you are quite correct, Wiff, my friend. Quite correct indeed.
Back to the year in question:
March 23 - After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their journey home.
March 29 - Construction authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
May 30 - Andrew Jackson kills a man in a duel after the man had accused Jackson's wife of bigamy. (Another sterling founding father!)
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1805
May 26 - In Milan's cathedral, Napoleon I of France crowns himself King of Italy with the Iron Crown of Lombardy
June 4 - The first Trooping the Colour ceremony at the Horse Guards Parade in London
October 21 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Trafalgar - British naval fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. Admiral Nelson is fatally shot
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1804
Convict rebellion in Australia ends at Battle of Vinegar Hill, near Sydney.
White Lotus rebellion ends in China
Kant died - or appeared to die
Pierre Méchain, astronomer and cartographer, died
Nat. Hawthorne born
Benjamin Disraeli born
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1803
January 4 - William Symington demonstrates his Charlotte Dundas, the "first practical steamboat".
January 30 - Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans. They end completing the Louisiana Purchase.
February 21 - Edward Despard and six others are hanged, drawn and quartered for plotting to assassinate king George III and to destroy the Bank of England
February 24 - The Supreme Court of the United States, in Marbury v. Madison, establishes the principle of judicial review.
March 1 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state, retroactive from August 7, 1953.
April 30 - Louisiana Purchase made by the United States from France.
May 18 - The United Kingdom redeclares war on France after France refused to withdraw from Dutch territory.
July 4 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people. (A habit Goverment still keep-- do now, tell 'em later!)
July 5 - The convention of Artlenburg leads to the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).
July 23 - Robert Emmet's uprising in Ireland begins
July 26 - The wagonway between Wandsworth and Croydon is opened, being the first public railway line of the world.
August 3 – British begin Second Anglo-Maratha War against Sindhia of Gwalior
September 20 - Irish rebel Robert Emmet is executed
September 23 - The Battle of Assaye in India – British-lead troops defeat Maratha forces
October 20 - Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase Treaty, doubling the size of the United States.
November 30 - At the Cabildo building in New Orleans, Spanish representatives Governor Manuel de Salcedo and the Marqués de Casa Calvo, officially transfer Louisiana Territory to French representative Prefect Pierre Clément de Laussat (just 20 days later, France had transferred the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase).
[Now let's see if I got this right. Jan. the deal is compleated. April, purchase actually made. July 4, purchase is publically announced. October, Congress, at least the Senate, finially ratifies the purchase. Nov. France actually gains possession of the land it has already sold to the USA. Anyone else see anything wrong with this picture? ]:confused: :rolleyes:
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Bureaucracy at worK? :p
1802: Sonata Quasi Una Fantasia, better known as the "Moonlight Sonata," is performed for the first time...
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1802
March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of the Second Coalition.
April 26 - A general amnesty signed by Napoleon Bonaparte allowed all but about one thousand of the most notorious émigrés of the French Revolution to return to France, as part of a reconciliary gesture to make peace with the various factions of the Ancien Regime that would ultimately consolidate his own rule.
August 2 - In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for life.
The estimated world population reached 1 billion people.
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1801. On November 10th, Kentucky outlaws dueling. :)
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1800
May 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy.
June 14 - Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy.
June 2 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
June 27 - Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
Invention of the voltaic pile by Alessandro Volta: the first chemical battery.
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1799 - November 9
Napoleon overthrows the French Directory
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1798
July 11 - The United States Marine Corps was (re-?)established.
July 14 - The Alien and Sedition Acts become United States law making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government
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1797
February 14 - The Battle of Cape St. Vincent (1797), part of the Wars of the French Revolution.
February 22 - The Last invasion of Britain begins. French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard in Wales.
March 4 - John Adams succeeds George Washington as the President of the United States of America.
May 12 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice, ending the 1070 years of independence of the city. The last doge of Venice, Ludovico Manin, steps down.
August 30 - Birth of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, English writer (died 1851
October 21 - December 17 - Napoleon leads a successful French charge against Fort l'Aiguilette to secure Toulon.
Joseph Haydn composes the music to "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser," the tune of which also became the music to the German national anthem, "Deutschland, Deutschland über alles"
November 29 - Death of Samuel Langdon, American President of Harvard University (born 1723)
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1796
January 16 - First Dutch (and general) elections for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. The next Dutch general elections were in 1917.
February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
February 9 - The Qianlong Emperor abdicates at age 84 to make way for his son, the Jiaqing Emperor.
March 9 - Widow Joséphine de Beauharnais marries General Napoléon Bonaparte.
March 30 - Carl Gauss obtained conditions for the constructibility by ruler and compass of regular polygons and was able to announce that the regular 17-gon was constructible by ruler and compasses.
April 2 - The only night of would-be Shakespearean play of Vortigern and Rowena (actually written by William Henry Ireland) ends into audience's laughter.
April 27 - The Case of the Lyons Mail. During the night from the 27th to the 28th of April, five highwaymen attack the mail between Paris and Lyon, kill the postmen, and steal the funds sent to the armies in Italy.
May 10 - First Coalition: Gen. Napoleon Bonaparte wins a decisive victory against Austrian forces at Lodi bridge over the River Adda in Italy. The Austrians lose some 2,000 men.
May 14 - Edward Jenner administers the first smallpox vaccination.
May 15 - Napoleon's troops take Milan.
June 1 - Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
July 10 - Carl Friedrich Gauss discovered that every positive integer is representable as a sum of at most three triangular numbers.
July 11 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.
September 8 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops at Bassano.
September 17 - U.S. President George Washington issues his Farewell Address, which warns against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.
November: John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson in the U.S. presidential election
November 4 - The Treaty of Tripoli (between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at Tripoli (see also 1797).
November 6 Old Style - Catherine II of Russia called Catherine "The Great" dies and is succeeded by her son Paul I of Russia. His wife Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg becomes Empress consort.
November 17 - French Revolutionary Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians in Italy.
December 7 - U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president
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1795
James Boswell dies
Thomas Linley, comoser, dies
Keats born
Duchy of Courland (Latvia) asorbed into Russia.
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1794 - February 4
The French Republic abolishes slavery
