Mar 21 After four years of debate and planning, French leader Napoleon Bonaparte enacts a new legal framework known as the "Napoleonic Code."

Mar 29 Thousands of whites are massacred in Haiti following a declaration by Governor General Jean-Jacques Dessalines.

Mar 26 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana

Mar 14 The birth of Johann Strauss, Austrian composer

Mar 28 Ohio passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804

Mar 17 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell", premieres

Mar 20 A royalist conspiracy against France's first consul Napoleon Bonaparte comes to light in February One conspirator, Gen Jean Victor Moreau, 41, escapes to America, but the duc d'Enghien Louis Antoine Henri de Bourbon Condé, 32, is seized in Baden, condemned by a commission acting under Bonaparte's orders without regard to law, and shot at Vincennes the night of March 20

Mar 26 Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase

Aug 25 Alice Meynell becomes first woman jockey (England)

Sep 25 12th amendment to the US constitution, regulating judicial power

Feb 23 Conspirators against Napoleon, for restoration of Louis XVIII

Feb 21 The first ever steam train to run on rails is demonstrated by Richard Trevithick

Feb 26 Vice-Admiral William Bligh ends siege of Fort Amsterdam, Willemstad

Feb 16 Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, with volunteers from frigate Constitution and schooner Enterprise, enters Tripoli harbor by night in the ketch Intrepid to burn the captured frigate Philadelphia. Decatur's raid succeeds without American losses. England's Lord Nelson calls this "the most daring act of the age."

Feb 15 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery

Feb 25 Jefferson nominated for President at Democratic-Republican caucus

Feb 15 New Jersey becomes last northern state to abolish slavery

Feb 21 First locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for first time, in Wales

Nov 20 Alexander I reissues manifesto of Catherine II, with some modifications, inviting foreigners to settle in New Russia.

Nov 30 Impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase begins

Dec 02 Napoleon becomes first French emperor, placing crown on his own head

Dec 21 The birth of Benjamin Disraeli, British politician

Dec 02 Napoleon Bonaparte crowned Emperor of France

May 16 Senate & Tribune declare Napolean leader of France

May 18 Napoleon Bonaparte is proclaimed emperor by the French Senate

May 06 Suriname sold to English (until February 1816)

May 14 Lewis and Clark begin their expedition to explore the Louisiana Territory

May 14 The Lewis and Clark expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase territory begins its ascent of the Missouri River May 14 seeking to determine whether the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean are linked by a river system

May 17 Lewis & Clark begin exploration of the Louisiana Purchase

May 14 Lewis & Clark set out from St Louis for the Pacific Coast

May 16 Napoleon declared Emperor of France

May 21 Lewis & Clark Expedition begins

Jul 11 VP Aaron Burr kills Alex Hamilton in a pistol duel near Weehawken

Jul 04 The birth of Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author

Jul 11 Former U S Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton is mortally wounded at age 49 in a duel at Weehawken, N J with Vice President Aaron Burr, now 48, who has heard of insults directed at him by Hamilton and demanded satisfaction

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