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A second great revivalist movement sweeps northeast America, inspired by the earlier example of Jonathan Edwards
An Indian raid on an American military camp beside the Maumee river leaves more than 600 US soldiers dead
A French revolutionary army defeats the Austrians and Prussians at Valmy, and thus saves Paris from attack
The first political parties, Hamilton's Federalists and Jefferson's Republicans, emerge in the USA
The Netherlands, forced by invasion into the French camp, is transformed into the Batavian republic
Indian tribes, at peace talks in Fort Greenville, cede much of Ohio to the USA
Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity
After the Fort Greenville concessions, the Shawnee leader Tecumseh emerges as a champion of Indian territorial rights
A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism
George Washington selects the Cherokee Indians for an experiment in adaptation to 'civilization'
Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France
In his doctorate the 22-year-old Carl Friedrich Gauss, subsequently recognized as one of the most brilliant of mathematicians, proves the fundamental theorem of algebra
The tsar, Paul I, establishes the Russian-American Company with the express purpose of developing Alaska
Napoleon takes a French army through the Alps before the snows have cleared, and defeats the Austrians at Marengo
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck gives a lecture describing in outline his theory of evolution, based on the transmutation of species and the inheritance of acquired characteristics
Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII
A steam tug designed by William Symington, the Charlotte Dundas, goes into service on the Forth and Clyde canal
Cornish engineer Richard Trevithick drives a steam carriage in London, from Holborn to Paddington and back
Napoleon assembles an invasion fleet against Britain, where Martello towers are hastily built in preparation
Richard Trevithick runs the first locomotive on rails, pulling heavy weights a distance of 9 miiles (15 km) near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales
Napoleon merges the majority of the German states into a Confederation of the Rhine with himself as its protector
US engineer Robert Fulton launches a steamboat, the Clermont, on New York's Hudson river
Napoleon transfers his brother Joseph Bonaparte from the throne of Naples to that of Spain
Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa set up a permanent base in Indiana, calling it Prophetstown
The British impose the so-called Hottentot Code, protecting Africans at the Cape but also tying them to employers' farms
