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Events

• January 10 - Marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled
• January 20 - Tyrolean rebel leader Andreas Hofer executed
• March 11 - Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
• April 19 - Venezuela achieves home rule: Emparan, Governor of the Captaincy General is removed by the people of Caracas and a Junta is installed.
• May 10 - Revolutionary occupation of Buenos Aires town hall.
• May 25 - Armed citizens of Buenos Aires expel the Viceroy from Spain and establish a provincial government for Argentina.
• June 23 - John Jacob Astor forms the Pacific Fur Company.
• July - Napoleon annexes the Kingdom of Holland.
• July 20 - Colombia declares independence from Spain.
• September 8 - The Tonquin sets sail from New York Harbor with 33 employees of John Jacob Astor's newly created Pacific Fur Company on board. After a six month journey around the tip of South America, the ship will arrive at the mouth of the Columbia River and Astor's men will establish fur-trading town of Astoria.
• September 16 - Dieciséis de septiembre, the Independence Day of the Republic of Mexico
• September 26 - A new Act of Succession is adopted by the Riksdag of the Estates and Jean Baptiste Bernadotte becomes heir to the Swedish throne.
• October 12 - First Oktoberfest: The Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

• King George III of England recognized as insane
• Amadou Lobbo initiates the Tukulor War in present-day Mali.

Ongoing events

• Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815)-Peninsular War

Births

• January 3 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish traveler.
• February 5 - Ole Bull, Norwegian Violinist
• February 11 - Loisa Puget, composer
• March 1 - Frédéric Chopin, Polish composer (d. 1849)
• March 2 - Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)
• May 23 - Margaret Fuller, journalist, feminist (d. 1850)
• June 8 - Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist.
• July 21 - Henri Victor Regnault, chemist and physicist
• September 29 - Elizabeth Gaskell, British novelist
• October 10 - James Wilson Marshall, contractor and builder of Sutter's Mill.
• Henry Rowe, Gothic architect

Deaths

• July 19 - Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Queen of Prussia
• November 11 - Johann Zoffany, painter

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