January 1 Dutch East Indies Company dissolves January 2 Free black community of Philadelphia petitions Congress to abolish slave January 5 1st Swedenborgian temple in U.S. holds 1st service, Baltimore January 8 Austrians defeat French in 2nd battle of Novi January 8 Wild Boy of Aveyron discovered in southern France January 20 Napoleon I's sister Carolina marries King Joachim Murat of Naples January 30 U.S. population: 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%) March 14 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII March 17 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die March 20 French army defeats Turks at Helipolis Turkey, and advance to Cairo April 2 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 1st Symphony in C April 15 James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole April 24 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation May 7 Indiana Territory organized May 14 Friedrich von Schiller's "Macbeth," premieres in Weimar May 15 King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt May 15 Pope Pius VII calls on French bishops to return to Gospel principles June 4 White House completed and President and Mrs. John Adams move in June 14 Battle of Marengo (Alessandria): Bonaparte vs Austria June 29 Free mason lodge establishes in Alkmaar July 8 Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox July 9 Mount Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in U.S. September 5 Malta surrenders to British after they blockade French troops September 7 Zion AME Church dedicated (New York City) September 13 Curacao in English hands (until Jan 1803) October 1 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty October 17 Dutch colony Curacao transfered to England November 17 Congress held 1st session in Washington D.C. in incompleted Capitol building November 17 John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House November 24 Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premieres in Freiburg December 12 Washington D.C. established as capital of US
