NINETEENTH CENTURY, IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE. 



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1802. 



Jan. 8, Bonaparte was made President of the Ital- 

 ian Republic. 



Feb. 26, Victor Hugo was born. 



March 7, Sir Edwin Landseer was born. 



March 16, the United States Military Academy 

 at West Point was founded. 



March 27, the peace of Amiens, between Great 

 Britain, France, Spain, and the Batavian Repub- 

 lic, was proclaimed. 



April 27, Louis Kossuth was born. 



May 10, George Romney, artist, died. 



Aug. 2, Bonaparte was proclaimed consul for life. 



Nov. 18, sheet copper was first manufactured in 

 Boston. 



Nov. 18, subjection of Switzerland; Piedmont, 

 Parma, and Elba were annexed to France. 



1803. 



Feb. 19, Ohio was admitted as a State. 



April 30, France sold Louisiana to the United 

 States. 



May 12, Baron Liebig was born. 



May 25, Ralph Waldo Emerson was born. 



June 15, the percussion lock for guns and the 

 Congreve rocket were invented. 



Sept. 18, Malthus's Essay on Population was pub- 

 lished. 



Sept. 19, Robert Emmet was executed. 



Dec. 11, Hector Berlioz was born. 



Dec. 20, the United States took possession of 

 Louisiana. 



1804. 



Feb. 12, Immanuel Kant died. 



Feb. 15, New Jersey passed an act giving freedom 



to all persons born in the State after July 4 



of that year. 

 Feb. 24, the British and Foreign Bible Society was 



formed. 

 May 18, Napoleon Bonaparte assumed the title of 



Emperor. 



July 4, Nathaniel Hawthorne was born. 

 July 12, Alexander Hamilton died from a wound 



received the day previous in his duel with Burr. 

 Sept. 25, the twelfth amendment to the United 



States Constitution was adopted. 

 Nov. 23, Franklin Pierce was born. 



1805. 



April 2, Hans. Christian Andersen was born. 



May 9, Friedrich von Schiller died. 



May 26, Napoleon was crowned King of Italy at 



Milan. 

 May 26, Mungo Park made a second expedition to 



Africa and was killed at Boossa. 

 June 22, Joseph Mazzini was born. 

 Oct. 21, the battle of Trafalgar was fought. 

 Nov. 15, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 



reached the mouth of Columbia river. 



t. 2, Napoleon won his victory at Austerlitz. 

 1806. 



Jan. 8, the Cape of Good Hope was captured from 

 the Dutch by the British. 



Jan. 23, William Pitt died. 



March 6, Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born. 



April 1, Prussia took possession of Hanover. 



June 10, resolutions were carried in the British 

 Parliament for the abolition of the slave trade. 



July 12, Holland was created a kingdom. 



Aug. 28, coal was first mined in the United States. 



Sept. 8, Lewis and Clark returned from their ex- 

 ploring expedition across America to the Pacific. 

 ; Sept. 13, Charles James Fox died. 



Oct. 14, the battle of Jena was fought. 





1807. 



Jan. 19, Robert Edward Lee was born. 



Feb. 27, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born. 



May 22, the trial of Aaron Burr for conspiracy 

 against the United States was begun. 



May 28, Louis Agassiz was born. 



June 21, occurred the conflict between the English 

 ship Leopard and the American frigate Chesa- 

 peake. 



J uly 4, Giuseppe Garibaldi was born. 



Aug. 11, Fulton's steamboat, the Clermont, made 

 its first trip going from New York to Albany. 



Sept. 5, Copenhagen was bombarded and the Dan- 

 ish fleet captured by the British. 



Nov. 18, gas lamps were introduced and used in 

 the streets of London. 



Dec. 17, John Greenleaf Whittier was born. 



Dec. 21, the embargo act was passed. It forbade 

 any vessel to sail from the United States to a 

 foreign port. 



1808. 



Jan. 1, Congress by unanimous vote prohibited 

 the importation of slaves. 



Jan. 13, Salmon Portland Chase was born. 



March 24, Maria Felicia Malibran was born. 



May 6, the steamboat Phoenix, built by John 

 Stevens, made her first ocean trip from Ho- 

 boken to Philadelphia. 



June 3, Jefferson Davis was born. 



Aug. 17, Arthur Wellesley defeated the French at 

 Roliga. 



Sept. 3, the Russian fleet in the Tagus surren- 

 dered to the British. 



Oct. 16, Selim III, Sultan of Turkey, was mur- 

 dered. 



Nov. 6, Finland was conquered by Russia from 

 Sweden. 



Dec. 29, Andrew Johnson was born. 



1809. 



Jan. 5, the two days' battle of Wagram began. 

 Jan. 16, the battle of Corunna was fought; death 



of Sir John Moore. 

 Jan. 19, Edgar Allan Poe was born. 

 Feb. 12, Abraham Lincoln was born. 

 Feb. 12, Charles Darwin was born. 

 April 10, an insurrection of the Tyrol under 



Hofer began. 



May 31, Joseph Haydn died. 

 Aug. 6, Alfred Tennyson was born. 

 Aug. 29, Oliver Wendell Holmes was born. 

 Dec. 29, William Ewart Gladstone was born. 



1810. 



Feb. 5, Guadeloupe was taken by Beckwith. 



April 8, the Burdett riots occurred in London. 



April 11, Sir Henry C. Rawlinson, the " Father of 

 Assyriology," was born. 



Aug. 10, Count Cavour was born. 



Sept. 16, the confederation of Venezuela was 

 formed. 



Sept. 27, the French were defeated by Wellington 

 at Busaco. 



Oct. 6, the first cotton goods printed from cylin- 

 ders were made in Philadelphia. 



1811. 



Jan. 1, the regency of the Prince of Wales was 



instituted in Great Britain. 

 Jan. 6, Charles Sumner was born. 

 Feb. 3, Horace Greeley was born. 

 Feb. 3, Mohammed AH, Turkish Viceroy in Egypt, 



massacred 1,600 Mamelukes in the citadel of 



Cairo. 

 June 10, Christophe, a negro, was crowned King 



of Hayti as Henry I. 



