| January 25 | Napoleon elected president of Italian (Cisalpine) Republic |
| January 26 | Congress passes an act calling for a U.S. Capitol library |
| January 29 | John Beckley of Virginia appointed 1st Librarian of Congress |
| February 2 | 1st leopard exhibited in U.S., Boston (admission 25 cents ) |
| February 8 | Simon Willard patents banjo clock |
| March 16 | Law signed to establish U.S. Miltary Academy (West Point, New York) |
| March 16 | U.S. Academy at West Point founded |
| March 16 | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time) |
| March 25 | France, Netherlands, Spain and England signs Peace of Amiens |
| March 27 | Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends |
| April 8 | French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled |
| May 3 | Washington D.C. incorporates as a city |
| May 19 | French Order of Legion d'Honneur forms |
| June 15 | Toussaint L'Ouverture leaves Haiti, prisoner on French ship Heros |
| July 4 | U.S. Military Academy officially opens at West Point, New York |
| July 7 | 1st comic book "The Wasp," is published |
| August 2 | Napoleon declared "Counsel for Life" |
| August 7 | Napoleon orders re-instatement of slavery on St. Domingue (Haiti) |
| August 25 | Toussaint L'Ouverture imprisoned in Fort de Joux, Jura, France |
| October 10 | 1st non indian settlement in Oklahoma |
| December 2 | English sell Suriname to Dutch |
