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

Jan 05 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France

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

Jan 04 The birth of Louis Braille, creates the Braille system for the blind

Jan 05 Treaty of Dardanelles concluded between Britain & France

Jan 12 British take Cayenne (French Guiana) from the French (until 1814)

Jan 16 French forces defeat Sir John Moore and kill him in the Battle of Corunna January 16 Sir Arthur Wellesley succeeds Moore as commander of British forces in the Peninsular War

Jan 20 The first US geology book published by William Maclure

Jan 01 Holland Brigade under Brigadier General Chassé reaches Madrid

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

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

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

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

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

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