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Wikipedia.
Events:
March 14 - Cardinal
Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII.
March 21 -
Pius VII becomes Pope.
May 15 -
Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy.
June 14 - Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy.
June 27 - Pascha
Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by having the
flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
September 5 - The island of Malta, that was occupied by the French, is conquered by
British troops.
November 1 - US President
John Adams becomes the first President of the United States
to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House)..
November 17 - The United States Congress holds its first Washington, DC session.
December 3 - Battle of Hohenlinden, the French army defeats the Austrian troops.
December 24 - An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris.
Invention of the voltaic pile by
Alessandro Volta: the first chemical battery.
The infrared radiation is discovered by
Wilhelm Herschel.
Births:
January 7 -
Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1850-1853.
January 25 -
Pieternella Raap.
February 11 -
William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer.
March 15 -
Heinrich von Dechsen, geologist and mineralogist (+ 1889).
May 5 -
Maria van den Houten.
May 9 -
John Brown, American abolitionist (+ 1859).
April 17 -
Jan van den Houten.
July 31 -
Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist.
August 12 -
Cornelia van den Houten.
August 12 -
Maria Theresia Wingarts.
October 2 -
Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellion.
Charles Goodyear, American rubber magnate.
Emperor
Ninko of Japan.
Baptized:
January 2 -
Maria van den Houten.
Deaths:
January 1 -
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist.
March 14 -
Daines Barrington, English naturalist.
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