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March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII.
March 21 - Pius VII becomes Pope
April 24 - US Library of Congress founded.
May 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy.
June 14 - Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy.
June 2 - First smallpox vaccination in North America, at Trinity, Newfoundland.
June 27 - Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down.
September 5 - The island of Malta, that was occupied by the French, is conquered by British troops.
November 1 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
November 17 - The U.S. Congress holds its first Washington, DC session.
December 3 - Battle of Hohenlinden, the French army defeats the Austrian troops.
December 24 - An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris.
Invention of the voltaic pile by Alessandro Volta: the first chemical battery
The infrared radiation is discovered by Wilhelm Herschel.
The Althing of Iceland, the world's oldest parliament, is abolished.
Ongoing events
French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Second Coalition/Egyptian Campaign
Births
January 7 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1850-1853
February 11 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer
March 15 - Heinrich von Dechsen, geologist and mineralogist (d. 1889)
May 9 - John Brown, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
June 23 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and social activist (d. 1846)
July 31 - Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist
August 22 - William S. Harney, US general
October 2 - Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellion
December 3 - France Prešeren, Slovenian poet
Charles Goodyear, American rubber magnate
Emperor Ninko of Japan
Deaths
January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist
January 23 - Edward Rutledge, U.S. statesman (b. 1749)
March 14 - Daines Barrington, English naturalist
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