See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Edward Jenner develops vaccination, using cowpox to protect against smallpox.
February 1 - The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
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.
May 10 - First Coalition: Napoleon I of France 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..
June 1 - Tennessee is admitted as the 16th U.S. state.
July 22 - Surveyors of the Connecticut Land Company name an area in Ohio "Cleveland"
after Gen. Moses Cleaveland, the superintendent of the surveying party.
September 8 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Bassano - French forces defeat Austrian troops
at Bassano.
November:
John Adams defeats
Thomas Jefferson in U.S. presidential election.
November 4 - The Treaty of Tripoli (between the United States and Tripoli) is signed at
Tripoli (see also 1797).
November 17 - Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Arcole - French forces defeat the Austrians
in Italy.
December 7 - U.S. Electoral College meets to elect John Adams president.
British government purchase a 40 acre site at Norman Cross the first purposely built
prisoner of war camp in England at that time.
Births:
February 22 -
Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet, mathematician (+ 1874).
May 1 -
Junius Brutus Booth, English actor.
July 6 - Emperor
Nicholas I of Russia.
July 23 -
Franz Berwald, composer.
August 15 -
Jacomina Quant.
August 25 -
James Lick, California land baron (+ 1876).
September 2 -
Johanna Grinwis.
September 19 -
Hartley Coleridge, British poet.
October 26 -
Klaas van den Houten.
November 30 -
Carl Loewe, composer.
December 11 -
Jan van den Houten.
Baptized:
February 22 -
Dina van den Houten.
Deaths:
May 25 -
Catherina van den Houten.
July 21 -
Robert Burns, Scots poet.
July 30 -
Dr. Abraham Jacob 's Graeuwen.
November 17 -
Catherine the Great of Russia.
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