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Wikipedia.
Events:
March 16 - West Point is established.
March 25/27 - Treaty of Amiens between France and United Kingdom ends the War of
the Second Coalition.
March 28 - H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Pallas.
May 19 - Napoleon Bonaparte establishes the French légion d'honneur ("legion of honour").
July 4 - At West Point, New York the United States Military Academy opens.
August 2 - In a plebiscite Napoleon Bonaparte is confirmed as consul for a lifetime.
September 11 - The Italian region of Piedmont becomes a part of Napoleonic France.
October 2 - War ends between Sweden and Tripoli. The United States also negotiates
peace, but war continues over the size of compensation.
October - French army enters Switzerland.
Marie Tussaud opens her famous wax museum in London, having been commissioned
during the Reign of Terror to make death masks of the victims.
Thomas Wedgwood produces the world's first photograph, but has no means of fixing
the image, which quickly fades.
William Symington builds the first successful steamship, the Charlotte Dundas.
Ludwig van Beethoven performs the Moonlight Sonata for the first time.
William Wordsworth publishes the poem Westminster Bridge.
Births:
February 11 -
Lydia Child, American author.
February 15 -
Pleuntje Saarloos.
February 19 -
Wilhelm Matthias Näff, member of the Swiss Federal Council (+1881).
February 26 -
Victor Hugo, French author.
May 29 -
Adriaantje van den Houten.
July 24 -
Alexandre Dumas, père, French author.
July 26 -
Mariano Arista, president of Mexico.
August 20 -
Jacob Raap.
August 25 -
Niels Henrik Abel, Norwegian mathematician.
July 24 -
Alexandre Dumas, père, French author.
December 15 -
Janos Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician.
December 23 -
Sara Coleridge (fille), British scholar.
Deaths:
May 10 -
Josias van den Houten.
June 4 -
Charles Emmanuel IV of Savoy, king of Sardinia.
November 9 -
Thomas Girtin, artist.
November 15 -
George Romney, artist.
November 16 -
André Michaux, French botanist (* 1746).
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