May 10 Riot after disagreement of patriotic demand in Amsterdam

May 16 Lombardije Republic forms

May 10 French Government arrest 10 utopists

May 10 Napoleon defeats Austria in Battle of Lodi Bridge

May 15 French troops occupy Milan

May 19 Game protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds

May 27 James S McLean patents his piano

May 14 First smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner

May 15 France & Sardinia sign Peace treaty of Paris

Jan 23 Armand-Gaston Camus becomes chairman of Council of 500

Jan 29 In Toronto, Yonge Street officially opened, running from the town of York up to Lake Simcoe

Feb 29 Jay's Treaty proclaimed, settles some differences with England

Feb 01 Capital of Upper Canada transferred from Newark (Niagara) to York.

Apr 13 First elephant brought to America (from Bengal, India)

Nov 17 Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy

Nov 06 Death of Catherine II at age sixty-seven.

Sep 08 Battle of Bassano-French beat Austrians

Sep 19 George Washington's farewell address as president

Jun 01 Tennessee becomes the 16th state of the U.S.

Dec 18 First US newspaper to appear on Sunday, Baltimore Monitor

Aug 08 Boston African Society establishes with 44 members

Aug 21 Mississauga Chief Wabakinine, protecting his sister from a British soldier, is struck on the head with a rock and killed; his wife is also seriously injured.

Jul 22 Cleveland, Ohio, is founded by General Moses Cleaveland.

Jul 21 Robert Burns Scottish poet, dies

Jul 06 The birth of Nicholas I, Tsar of Russia

Jul 14 The birth of Thomas Bulfinch, American mythologist

Jul 08 US State Dept issues first American passport

Mar 31 Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Egmont", premieres in Weimar

Mar 09 Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais

Mar 28 Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is first US-African church