The importation of
slaves into the United States is banned, as the 1807
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect; African slaves continue to be imported into
Cuba, and until the island abolishes slavery in
1865, half a million slaves will arrive on the island.[1]
John Rennie's scheme to defend
St Mary's Church, Reculver in south east England, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
February 6 – The ship Topaz (from Boston April 5, 1807, hunting seals) rediscovers the
Pitcairn Islands; only one
HMS Bounty mutineer is still alive,
John Adams, who is using the pseudonym Alexander Smith.
A volcano erupts from an unknown location in the western Pacific. This causes a localized drop in marine air temperatures during this year and a worldwide drop in marine air temperature for the following decade.[5]
English chemist
Humphry Davy informs the
Royal Society of London of his isolation and discovery of two elements by electrolysis. From
lime, he has produced
calcium and established that lime is calcium oxide; by heating
boric acid and
potassium in a copper tube, he creates a substance he calls boracium, which is eventually called
boron.[6] This year he also isolates
magnesium and
strontium.
^Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History (Cengage Learning, 2008)
^
abPalmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 242–243.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
^E. I. Kouri and Jens E. Olesen, eds. The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
^Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants (1844, reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 2011) p136
^Chenoweth, M. (2001), Two major volcanic cooling episodes derived from global marine air temperature, AD 1807–1827, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(15), 2963–2966,
doi:
10.1029/2000GL012648.
^Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa and Mary Virginia Orna, The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side (Oxford University Press, 2014)
^"England's Greatest Chemist, Sir Humphry Davy", by John A. Bowes, in Young England magazine (Sunday School Union, 1883) p63
^Thomas Hudson McKee, The National Conventions and Platforms of All Political Parties (Friedenwald, 1901) p18
^William James and Frederick Chamier, The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 5 (Macmillan and Company, 1902) p53
^Jón Stefánsson, Denmark and Sweden: With Iceland and Finland (T.F. Unwin, Ltd., 1916) p332
^Edward C. Thaden, Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710-1870 (Princeton University Press, 2014) p85
^James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard, eds., Outlines of European History: From the opening of the eighteenth century to the present day (Ginn and Company, 1912) p214
^"The beginning". History of the Rijksmuseum. Rijksmuseum. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
^Sarah M. Fell: Genealogy of the Fell family in America, descended from Joseph Fell, who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1705 : With some account of the family remaining in England, &c. Sickler, Philadelphia, 1891, p. 139: Jesse W. Fell
[1]
The importation of
slaves into the United States is banned, as the 1807
Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect; African slaves continue to be imported into
Cuba, and until the island abolishes slavery in
1865, half a million slaves will arrive on the island.[1]
John Rennie's scheme to defend
St Mary's Church, Reculver in south east England, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
February 6 – The ship Topaz (from Boston April 5, 1807, hunting seals) rediscovers the
Pitcairn Islands; only one
HMS Bounty mutineer is still alive,
John Adams, who is using the pseudonym Alexander Smith.
A volcano erupts from an unknown location in the western Pacific. This causes a localized drop in marine air temperatures during this year and a worldwide drop in marine air temperature for the following decade.[5]
English chemist
Humphry Davy informs the
Royal Society of London of his isolation and discovery of two elements by electrolysis. From
lime, he has produced
calcium and established that lime is calcium oxide; by heating
boric acid and
potassium in a copper tube, he creates a substance he calls boracium, which is eventually called
boron.[6] This year he also isolates
magnesium and
strontium.
^Joseph R. Conlin, The American Past: A Survey of American History (Cengage Learning, 2008)
^
abPalmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 242–243.
ISBN0-7126-5616-2.
^E. I. Kouri and Jens E. Olesen, eds. The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
^Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants (1844, reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 2011) p136
^Chenoweth, M. (2001), Two major volcanic cooling episodes derived from global marine air temperature, AD 1807–1827, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(15), 2963–2966,
doi:
10.1029/2000GL012648.
^Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa and Mary Virginia Orna, The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side (Oxford University Press, 2014)
^"England's Greatest Chemist, Sir Humphry Davy", by John A. Bowes, in Young England magazine (Sunday School Union, 1883) p63
^Thomas Hudson McKee, The National Conventions and Platforms of All Political Parties (Friedenwald, 1901) p18
^William James and Frederick Chamier, The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 5 (Macmillan and Company, 1902) p53
^Jón Stefánsson, Denmark and Sweden: With Iceland and Finland (T.F. Unwin, Ltd., 1916) p332
^Edward C. Thaden, Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710-1870 (Princeton University Press, 2014) p85
^James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard, eds., Outlines of European History: From the opening of the eighteenth century to the present day (Ginn and Company, 1912) p214
^"The beginning". History of the Rijksmuseum. Rijksmuseum. Retrieved February 2, 2018.
^Sarah M. Fell: Genealogy of the Fell family in America, descended from Joseph Fell, who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1705 : With some account of the family remaining in England, &c. Sickler, Philadelphia, 1891, p. 139: Jesse W. Fell
[1]