Mar 01 Embargo Act of 1807 repealed &Non-Intercourse Act signed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