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Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations
The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million
A powerful French force arrives in Saint-Domingue and recovers control of the colony, offering generous terms to the native leaders
Bonaparte Crossing the Alps (in 1800) is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor
The family of John Henry Newman (later Cardinal Newman) move to Grove House (now Grey Court House), where they stay for five years
King George III has the White House at Kew demolished and instructs James Wyatt to build a castellated palace by the river, which was never completed.
The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours
Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison
A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal
The treaty agreed at Amiens between France and Britain brings a welcome lull after ten years of warfare in Europe
Josephine's daughter, Hortense de Beauharnais, marries Napoleon's brother Louis Bonaparte
At Heiligenstadt, near Vienna, Beethoven writes a letter, to be read only after his death, confronting the tragedy of his inexorable decline into deafness
The Treaty of Amiens restores the Cape of Good Hope to the Netherlands
English journalist William Cobbett launches a weekly newspaper, The Political Register, that he continues till his death in 1835
The Constitution of the Year XII (the twelfth year of the French Revolutionary Calendar) makes Napoleon First Consul for life
A horse-drawn railroad opens between Wandsworth and Croydon
Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back
The Frankfurt banker Mayer Amschel Rothschild lends 20 million francs to the Danish government
The peace of Amiens comes to an abrupt end when Britain declares war again on France
In Marbury v. Madison, a landmark example of judicial review, the US Supreme Court declares an act of Congress to be unconstitutional
Napoleon assembles an invasion fleet against Britain, where Martello towers are hastily built in preparation
James Brewer doubles the site and establishes the Star and Garter as a major hotel
The uprising by Irish nationalist Robert Emmet ends in disaster when he marches on Dublin with only about 100 men
In the Louisiana Purchase, Jefferson buys from Napoleon nearly a million square miles at a knock-down price, doubling the size of the USA
English chemist John Dalton reads a paper describing his Law of Partial Pressure in gases (discovered in 1801)
