January 1 African Benevolent Society (education) forms January 1 Congress prohibits importation of slaves January 1 Sierra Leone becomes a British colony January 10 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies January 19 Louis Napoleon signs 1st Dutch aviation law February 11 Anthracite coal 1st burned as fuel, experimentally, Wilkes-Barre, Pa March 6 1st college orchestra in U.S. founded, at Harvard March 7 Portugal's regent Dom Juan IV arrives in Rio De Janeiro March 23 Napoleon's brother Joseph takes the throne of Spain March 27 Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna March 31 French created Kingdom of Westphalia orders Jews to adopt family names April 9 Mayor Wolters offers French king Louis Napoleon townhall as a palace April 13 William Henry Lane ("Juda") perfects tap dance April 17 Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of U.S. ships April 30 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri May 2 Uprising against French occupation begins in Madrid May 3 Goya's "Executions of 3rd of May" May 30 Napoleon annexes Tuscany and gave it seats in French Senate June 1 1st U.S. land-grant university founded at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio June 5 Battle at Wagram: French army beats Austrians June 15 Jozef Napoleon becomes king of Spain June 22 Zebulon Pike reaches his peak July 2 Simon Fraser completes his trip down Fraser R, BC, lands at Musqueam July 5 Battle of Buenos Aires July 15 French marshal Joachim Murat becomes king of Naples July 20 Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names July 28 Mahmud II succeeds Mustafa IV as sultan of Turkey August 17 Napoleon asks King Louis for Holland brigade towards Spain September 30 Covent Garden Theatre Royal destroyed by fire October 17 Political rights of Jews suspended in Duchy of Warsaw October 31 Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain November 10 Osage Treaty signed December 7 James Madison elected U.S. president/George Clinton vice-president
