January 8 Cape colony becomes English colony January 8 Lewis and Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon January 10 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British January 12 French evacuate Vienna January 19 Britain occupies Cape of Good Hope January 30 Prussia takes possession of Hanover March 23 Lewis and Clark reach Pacific coast April 5 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider June 5 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile, Yankee June 5 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland June 24 English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires June 27 Buenos Aires captured by British July 3 Michael Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry July 15 Zebulon Pike began his journey to explore the Southwest September 2 A side of Rossberg Peak collapses into Goldau Valley, Switzerland, kills 500 September 23 Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis from Pacific Northwest October 7 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood October 8 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve October 14 Battle of Auerstadt-French beat Prussians November 15 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue November 15 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado) November 21 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
