Mar 25 George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs

Mar 02 Congress bans slave trade effective January 1, 1808

Mar 25 Slave trade in England abolished by the British Parliament

Mar 18 British forces occupy Alexandria but are able to hold it for only 6 months before the Turks force their evacuation

Mar 25 British Parliament abolishes slave trade

Mar 25 First railway passenger service began in England

Mar 05 First performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B

Aug 17 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River

Sep 01 Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is found innocent of treason.

Feb 10 US Coast Survey authorized by Congress

Feb 19 British squadron under Admiral Duckworth forces passage of Dardanelles

Feb 27 The birth of Henry Longfellow, American poet

Feb 24 17 die & 15 wounded in a crush to witness execution of Holloway, Heggerty & Elizabeth Godfrey in England

Feb 27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poet was born

Feb 19 Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later found innocent

Feb 07 The Battle of Eylau February 7 to 8 pits Prussian and Russian forces against the French in a bloody slaughter that ends indecisively

Feb 08 Napoleon defeats Russians in battle of Eylau

Feb 09 French Sanhedrin convened by Napoleon

Dec 22 An Embargo Act signed by President Jefferson prohibits all ships from leaving U S ports for foreign ports

Dec 17 The Milan Decree issued by Napoleon reiterates the paper blockade against British trade with the Continent

May 22 Townsend Speakman first sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Philadelphia)

May 26 French forces take Danzig and defeat the Russians June 14 in the Battle of Friedland

May 22 Former Vice President Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond VA (acquitted)

May 22 U S authorities arrest former vice president Aaron Burr February 19 in Alabama and bring him to trial May 22 at Richmond, Va , in a circuit court presided over by Chief Justice John Marshall of the Supreme Court Burr has apparently schemed to establish an independent nation comprised of Mexico and parts of the Louisiana Territory, but the court acquits him for lack of evidence

Jul 04 The birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian soldier

Jun 22 The British man-of-war Leopard fires on the U S frigate Chesapeake and removes four alleged British deserters

Jun 22 British board USS Chesapeake, a provocation leading to War of 1812

Jan 20 Napoleon convenes the great Sanhedrin, Paris

Jan 01 Curaçao is taken by English (until March, 1816)

Jan 12 Gunpowder-ship explodes in Leiden Netherlands, 150 die

Jan 07 A British Order in Council January 7 prohibits neutral nation ships from trading with France and her allies, but while the Royal Navy blockades Napoleon's ports, the French are agriculturally self-sufficient and suffer less than do the British

Jan 28 London's Pall Mall is first street lit by gaslight

Jan 19 The birth of Robert E. Lee, American Civil War general

Jan 07 A British Order in Council January 7 prohibits neutral nation ships from trading with France and her allies, but while the Royal Navy blockades Napoleon's ports, the French are agriculturally self-sufficient and suffer less than do the British