Event of Interest
Jan 9 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon

William Pitt the Younger

Napoléon Bonaparte
- Jan 10 Friedrich von Schiller's "Die Piccolomini" premieres in Weimar
Contract of Interest
Jan 14 Eli Whitney receives government contract for 10,000 muskets

Eli Whitney
- Jan 14 King of Naples flees before advancing French armies
- Jan 17 Maltese patriot Dun Mikiel Xerri, along with a number of other patriots, is executed
- Jan 25 1st US patent for a seeding machine, Eliakim Spooner, Vermont
- Feb 9 USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I
- Feb 13 1st US law regulating insurance passed by Massachusetts legislature
- Feb 15 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania
- Feb 25 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land
- Feb 25 US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation
- Mar 2 Congress standardizes US weights & measures
Victory in Battle
Mar 6 Napoleon Bonaparte captures city of Jaffa, Palestine, after a 5 day siege, defeating the Ottoman Empire

Napoléon Bonaparte
- Mar 7 The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education.
- Mar 12 Austria declares war on France
- Mar 19 Joseph Haydn's "Die Schöpfung" premieres in Vienna
- Mar 26 Napoleon captures Jaffa, Palestine
- Mar 28 New York State abolishes slavery
- Mar 29 New York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state
- Apr 16 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor - Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre
- Apr 20 Friedrich von Schiller's "Wallensteins Tod" premieres in Weimar
- May 4 Fourth Anglo-Mysore War: The Battle of Seringapatam: The siege of Seringapatam ends when the city is assaulted and the Tipu Sultan killed by the besieging British army, under the command of General George Harris.
- May 22 Napoleon makes statement in support of re-establishing Jerusalem for Jews
Historic Expedition
Jun 5 Naturalists Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland set sail in the Pizarro from A Coruña and begin their 5 year Latin American expedition

Alexander von Humboldt
Rosetta Stone
Jul 15 The Rosetta Stone is found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign
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Event of Interest
Jul 24 William Clark is willed the slave York

William Clark
- Jul 25 French-Egyptian forces under Napoleon I beat Turks at Battle of Abukir
- Aug 13 British fleet under Lord Seymour overthrows Suriname
- Aug 23 Napoleon leaves Egypt for France en route to seize power.
- Aug 27 British invasion army lands in North Holland
- Aug 30 Batavian fleet surrenders to British
- Sep 1 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)
- Oct 2 Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
- Oct 6 Battle of Castricum: Franco-Dutch army beats British-Russian army
- Oct 9 Sinking of British frigate HMS Lutine, with the loss of 240 men and cargo worth £1,200,000 off Dutch coast
- Oct 10 Convention of Alkmaar: British-Russian invasion army departs Holland
- Oct 22 Russia leaves second anti-French Coalition
- Nov 9 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul
- Nov 12 Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys
- Dec 10 Metric system first adopted in France
Event of Interest
Dec 18 George Washington's body interred at Mount Vernon

George Washington
- Dec 24 Jacobin plot against Napoleon uncovered
- Dec 26 George Washington is eulogized by Colonel Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace & 1st in hearts of his countrymen"