Mar 01 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed &Non-Intercourse Act signed

Mar 13 Seven Swedish army officers break into the royal apartments March 13, seize the insane Gustav IV in a coup d'état, and conduct him to the château of Gripsholm

Mar 04 Madison becomes first President inaugurated in American-made clothes

Sep 30 The Treaty of Fort Wayne negotiated by Gen William Henry Harrison obtains 3 million acres of Indiana Territory Indian land on the Wabash River for the United States

Feb 08 Franz I of Austria declares war on France

Feb 13 French take Saragossa, Spain after a long siege

Feb 20 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the federal government's power is greater than any individual state.

Feb 01 Dutch King Louis Napoleon accepts metric system

Feb 12 The birth of Charles Darwin, English scientist

Feb 03 Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)

Feb 03 The birth of Felix Mendelssohn, German composer

Feb 11 Robert Fulton patents the steamboat

Feb 12 The birth of Abraham Lincoln, Former (16th) US President

Apr 20 Napolean I defeats Austria at Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria

Nov 22 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen

Dec 22 US passes Non-Intercourse Act; opens trade with all nations except Britain and France; to retaliate against Napoleon's Decrees and British blockade; causes commercial depression in Canada.

Dec 16 Napoleon Bonaparte and the Empress Josephine are divorced by an act of the French Senate.

Dec 30 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston

Dec 16 Marriage between Napoleon Bonaparte and Josephine disolved after thirteen years

May 21 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon

May 05 Citizenship is denied to Jews of Canton of Aargau Switzerland

May 21 Battle at Aspern-Essling Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon

May 05 Mary Kies is first woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)

May 05 Mary Kies of South Killingly, CT was the first woman to be issued a U.S. patent, she was granted a patent for the rights to a technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.

May 24 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war

May 17 Papal States annexed by France

Jul 05 The Battle of Wagram ends in victory for the French but at a terrible cost 23,000 French soldiers killed or wounded, 7,000 missing out of a 181,700-man army that includes 29,000 cavalrymen, while the Austrian army of 181,700 (4,600 cavalrymen) is forced to retreat after losing 19,110 killed or wounded, 6,740 missing

Jul 27 Sir Arthur Wellesley has defeated the Spanish king Joseph Bonaparte at Talavera de la Reina and been made duke of Wellington for his triumph

Jul 31 The first practical US railroad track (wooden, for horse-drawn cars), Phila

Jul 05 The Battle of Wagram ends in victory for the French but at a terrible cost: 23,000 French soldiers killed or wounded, 7,000 missing out of a 181,700-man army that includes 29,000 cavalrymen, while the Austrian army of 181,700 (4,600 cavalrymen) is forced to retreat after losing 19,110 killed or wounded, 6,740 missing

Jul 05 Napoleon annexes the Papal States Pope Pius VII is taken prisoner July 5 and will remain in custody until 1814

Jun 01 Allardyce Barclay begins a bet of walking 1 mile every hour for 1,000 hours. Each hour he walked a « mile round trip from his home

Jun 10 The first US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila

Jan 05 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France

Jan 19 The birth of Edgar Allen Poe, American author and poet

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