See:
Wikipedia.
Events:
Alessandro Volta and La Place discover electricity.
February-October - Irish Rebellion.
May 24 - Irish Rebellion: Irish nationalists rebel against British occupation forces
believing that French troops were going to invade Ireland.
June 12 - French take Malta.
July -
Napoleon invades Egypt.
July 7 - Quasi-War: The United States Congress rescinds treaties with France sparking
the 'war.'
July 14 - The Sedition Act becomes United States law making it a federal crime to write,
publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
August 2 - French navy under admiral Bruyes loses and Horatio Nelson wins Battle of
the Nile.
September 18 - Lyrical Ballads published anonymously by
Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
William Wordsworth first (anonymous) publication of An Essay on the Principle of
Population by Thomas Malthus.
Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Scientific Editor, Astronomer, begins editing journals
about navigation and the geographic positions of cities.
Births:
January 14 -
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, Dutch politician.
February 17 -
Auguste Comte, "father" of sociology.
March 13 -
Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States.
March 30 -
Luise Hensel, poet (+ 1876).
April 2 -
August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, lyricist (+ 1874, writer of
"Das Lied der Deutschen").
April 9 -
Anna van Heest.
April 10 -
Krina Montfoort.
April 26 -
Eugene Delacroix, painter.
April 28 -
Duncan Forbes, linguist.
July 12 -
Leendert van den Houten.
July 29 -
Jannetje van den Houten.
August 8 -
Jan van Splunteren.
September 9 -
Lena van den Houten.
September 28 -
Tannetje van den Houten.
October 2 -
Charles Albert of Savoy, King of Sardinia.
December 24 -
Marinus Quant.
William Abbot - english actor.
Deaths:
December 4 -
Luigi Galvani, physicist.
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