Nineteenth Century Time Line

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1800

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- Alessandro Volta produces electricity from the first battery

-                 Maria Edgeworth publishes Castle Rackrent

-                 Napoleon Bonaparte becomes First Consul

-                 Napoleon appoints jurists to draw up Civil Code (Code Napoleon)

10/1            Napoleon signs Treaty of Ildefonso with Spain. Cedes Louisiana back to French

-                 French army victories at Heliopolis (vs. the Turks), Biberach, Höchstädt, Hohenlinden and Marengo (vs. the Austrians)

-                 French conquer Italy

-                 British capture Malta

-                 F. J. Gall (1758-1928) founds practice of phrenology

-                 Industrial Revolution spreads to Europe

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1801

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1/1             Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland comes into force

-                 Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats the Danes off Copenhagen

2/9 The Treaty of Luneville between France and Austria; end of the Holy Roman Empire

-                 English enter Cairo; the French depart, Ottoman Empire regains Egypt

-                 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 3^rd President of U.S.

-                 Tripoli declares war on U. S. for refusal to pay tribute to commerce raiding Arab pirates

-                 First iron trolley tracks in England - between Croydon & Wandsworth

-                 Population: London - 864,000; Paris - 547,000; Vienna - 231,000; Berlin - 183,000

2/24            Joseph Hayden premieres "The Seasons"

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1802

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-                 Factory Act - limits child labour to twelve hours a day without night work

-                 Peace of Amiens between France, Spain, the Batavian Republic and England. England was to give up most conquests and France was to evacuate Naples and restore Egypt to the Ottoman Empire

-                 Thomas Wedgewood produces first photograph<