The United Kingdom
Slave Trade Act becomes law abolishing the
slave trade in most of the
British Empire[5] with effect from 1 May (slavery itself is abolished in British colonies in 1833).
July 7–
9 – The
Treaties of Tilsit are signed between France, Prussia and Russia.
Napoleon and Russian Emperor
Alexander I ally together against the British. The Prussians are forced to cede more than half their territory, which is formed into the
Duchy of Warsaw in their former Polish lands, and the
Kingdom of Westphalia in western Germany. The
Free City of Danzig is also formed (established September 9 by Napoleon).
September 1 – Former U.S. Vice President
Aaron Burr is acquitted of
treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of
Louisiana and Mexico, to become part of an independent republic.
December 17 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the
Milan Decree which confirms the Continental System (i.e. no European country is to trade with the United Kingdom).
^William S. Dudley, ed. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History (Naval Historical Center, 1985) p34
^Stephen Tomkins, The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce's Circle Transformed Britain (Lion Books, 2012) p200
^William Hodgson, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Once Emperor of the French, who Died in Exile, at St. Helena, After a Captivity of Six Years' Duration (Orlando Hodgson, 1841) p384
^Farndale, W. E. (1950). The Secret of Mow Cop: a new appraisal of the origins of Primitive Methodism. London: Epworth Press.
^"Sketch of the Canton Protestant Mission", by Rev. John Chalmers, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Volume 7 (American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1876) p174
^Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900 (Yale University Press, 1982) p281
The United Kingdom
Slave Trade Act becomes law abolishing the
slave trade in most of the
British Empire[5] with effect from 1 May (slavery itself is abolished in British colonies in 1833).
July 7–
9 – The
Treaties of Tilsit are signed between France, Prussia and Russia.
Napoleon and Russian Emperor
Alexander I ally together against the British. The Prussians are forced to cede more than half their territory, which is formed into the
Duchy of Warsaw in their former Polish lands, and the
Kingdom of Westphalia in western Germany. The
Free City of Danzig is also formed (established September 9 by Napoleon).
September 1 – Former U.S. Vice President
Aaron Burr is acquitted of
treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of
Louisiana and Mexico, to become part of an independent republic.
December 17 – Napoleonic Wars: France issues the
Milan Decree which confirms the Continental System (i.e. no European country is to trade with the United Kingdom).
^William S. Dudley, ed. The Naval War of 1812: A Documentary History (Naval Historical Center, 1985) p34
^Stephen Tomkins, The Clapham Sect: How Wilberforce's Circle Transformed Britain (Lion Books, 2012) p200
^William Hodgson, The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Once Emperor of the French, who Died in Exile, at St. Helena, After a Captivity of Six Years' Duration (Orlando Hodgson, 1841) p384
^Farndale, W. E. (1950). The Secret of Mow Cop: a new appraisal of the origins of Primitive Methodism. London: Epworth Press.
^"Sketch of the Canton Protestant Mission", by Rev. John Chalmers, in The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal, Volume 7 (American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1876) p174
^Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture, 1500-1900 (Yale University Press, 1982) p281