Historical Events
- Jan 28 London's Pall Mall is 1st street lit by gaslight
- Feb 8 Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and Russian Empire - 1st battle Napoleon isn't victorious
- Mar 2 US Congress bans the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808
- Mar 25 British Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains
- Nov 27 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops
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Napoléon Bonaparte
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Would You Believe?
Would You Believe?Washington Irving's Salmagundi periodical published - first to associate the name "Gotham" with New York City
On November 11, 1807
Famous Weddings
- Feb 21 US President Martin Van Buren (24) weds high school sweetheart Hannah Hoes (23) in Catskill, New York
Comte de Rochambeau
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