May 03 Battle at Tolentino: Austria beats king Joachim of Naples

May 03 Battle at Tolentino Austria beats king Joachim of Naples

May 24 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia

Jan 10 British Government bans Americans from settling in Canada

Jan 08 Andrew Jackson's troops defeat the British at Chalmette in the Battle of New Orleans.

Jan 30 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 volumes

Jan 08 Battle of New Orleans-War of 1812 ended 12/24/1814 but nobody knew

Jan 30 Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's personal library containing 1500 volumes

Jan 14 HMS Endymion, Tenedos and Pomone capture USS President

Jan 16 Brazil is decreed a kingdom, independent from Portugal.

Feb 26 Napoleon & 1,200 leave Elba to start 100-day re-conquest of France

Feb 26 Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from exile on the Island of Elba

Feb 06 NJ issues first US railroad charter (John Stevens)

Feb 03 World's first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland

Feb 16 USS Constitution captures British Susannah

Apr 05 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)

Nov 27 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic

Nov 29 Augusta Ada Byron, later the Countess of Lovelace, was born on this day in. Lovelace, a mathematical prodigy and daughter of the poet Lord Byron, was an important influence on Charles Babbage, who developed one of the first mechanical computers.

Jun 18 Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington &Bl�cher

Jun 08 39 German states unite under the Act of Confederation

Jun 22 2nd abdication of Napoleon (after Waterloo)

Jun 18 Battle of Waterloo, where British General Wellington defeats French Emperor Napoleon

Dec 22 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest Jose Maria Morelos

Aug 06 US flotilla ends piracy by Algiers, Tunis &Tripoli

Aug 08 Napoleon Bonaparte set sail for exile on St Helena

Oct 31 Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp

Oct 16 Napoleon Bonaparte exiled to St Helena, an island in the Atlantic

Oct 15 Napoleon begins his exile on St. Helena, a remote Island in the Atlantic.

Jul 31 Commodore Stephen Decatur concludes agreement with Bey of Tunis to compensate U.S. for seizure of merchant ships during the War of 1812.

Jul 15 Napoleon Bonaparte captured

Mar 01 Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law

Mar 20 Napoleon enters Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule

Mar 16 Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium

Mar 08 In Charlottetown PEI, Peter Byers, a black, sentenced to death for stealing five pounds; 2 weeks earlier his brother Sancho sentenced to hang for stealing a pound of butter and a loaf of bread

Mar 23 USS Hornet captures HMS Penguin in battle lasting 22 minutes

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