1807
1807 was a
common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).
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February -
Napoleon attacks
Russia.
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February 7 -
Napoléon's
French Empire begin fighting against
Russian and
Prussian forces of the
Fourth Coalition at the
Battle of Eylau in Eylau,
Poland.
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February 8 -
Battle of Eylau -
Napoleon fights a hard, but inconclusive battle against the
Russians under
Bennigsen.
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February 19 - In
Alabama, Former
Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is tried for conspiracy and acquitted.
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March 2 - The
U.S. Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the
United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
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March 25 - The
Slave Trade Act becomes law abolishing the
slave trade in the
British Empire.
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March 25 - The
Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the
Oystermouth Railway, became the first passenger carrying
railway in the world.
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March 29 -
H. W. Olbers discovers the
asteroid Vesta.
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April 27 -
French forces capture
Danzig after a six week siege.
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May 22 - Sufficient evidence is presented to a
grand jury to indict former
Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr for
treason.
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June -
Chesapeake-Leopard Affair.
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June 6 -
Earthquake in
Lisbon,
Portugal.
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June 14 -
Battle of Friedland:
Napoleon decisively defeats
Bennigsen's
Russian army.
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July 5 - Disastrous
British attack to
Buenos Aires.
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July 7-
9 -
Peace of Tilsit between
France,
Prussia and
Russia.
Napoleon and
Russian Emperor Alexander I ally together against the
British. The
Prussians are forced to cede more than half their territory, which is formed into the
Duchy of Warsaw in their former
Polish lands and the
Kingdom of Westphalia in
western Germany.
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July 13 - With the death of
Henry Benedict Stuart, the last
Stuart claimant to the throne of the
United Kingdom, the movement of
Jacobitism comes to an effective end.
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August 17 - The
Clermont,
Robert Fulton's first
American steamboat, leaves
New York City for
Albany, New York on the
Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial
steamboat service in the world.
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September 1 - Former
U.S. Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of
treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of
Louisiana and
Mexico to become part of an independent republic.
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September 2 -
September 7 -
British Navy bombards
Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent
Denmark from surrendering its fleet to
Napoleon. 30% of the city was destroyed and 2000 citizens were killed.
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October 9 -
Serfdom is abolished in
Prussia by law.
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November 7 - The
Portuguese Queen
Maria I and the
Court embark at
Lisbon bound for
Brazil.
Rio de Janeiro becomes the
Portuguese capital.
Unknown dates
* Change of
emperor of the
Ottoman Empire from
Selim III (
1789-1807) to
Mustafa IV (1807-
1808)
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Battle of Abrantes - The
French under
Junot take the town.
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Napoleonic Wars (
1799-
1815) -
Fourth Coalition*
Russo-Turkish War, 1806-1812*
January 19 -
Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d.
1870)
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February 27 -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d.
1882)
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March 1 -
Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader (d.
1898)
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April 20 -
John Milton, Governor of Florida (d.
1865)
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May 28 -
Louis Agassiz, French zoologist and geologist (d.
1873)
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July 4 -
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot (d.
1882)
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August 11 -
David Rice Atchison, American politician (d.
1886)
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October 8 -
Harriet Taylor English philosophical writer (d.
1858)
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Abd al-Kader, Algerian military and religious leader (d.
1883)
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February 5 -
Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader (b.
1725)
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April 10 -
Anna Amalia, Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, regent of Weimar and Eisenach (b.
1739)
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May 10 -
Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (b.
1725)
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May 13 -
Eliphalet Dyer, American statesman and judge (b.
1721)
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May 18 -
John Douglas, Scottish Anglican bishop and man of letters (b.
1721)
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July 13 -
Henry Benedict Stuart, claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom (b.
1725)
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September 14 -
George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, British field marshal (b.
1724)
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November 5 -
Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss painter (b.
1741)
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November 23 -
Jean-François Rewbell, French politician (b.
1747)
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December 19 -
Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b.
1723)
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December 21 -
John Newton, English cleric and hymnist (b.
1725)
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Baron de Breteuil, prime minister of King
Louis XVI of France (b.
1730)
