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19th Century Timeline

Year	Government, Politics, & War	Art & Culture	Science & Technology	Religion & Philosophy	Daily Life & Health	Year
1800		Thomas Jefferson elected President				1800
1801	Act of Union between Great Britain and Ireland creates the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland					1801
1802	Treaty of Amiens					1802
1803	Louisiana Purchase Treaty signed in Paris; The United States purchases rights to 828,800 square miles of territory from France					1803
1804	Tripolitan War	(1) Aaron Burr kills Alexander Hamilton in duel (2) Napoleon crowned as Emperor of the French			Lewis & Clark begin expedition to survey the Louisiana Purchase	1804
1805	(1) Battle of Austerlitz (2) Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats French fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar to maintain naval supremacy (3) Treaty of Pressburg formally dissolves the Holy Roman Empire					1805
1806	(1) French army destroys Prussian army at the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt (2) British acquire Cape Colony					1806
1807	Treaty of Tilsit marks high-water mark of Napoleon's empire		The 1st steamship Clermont sails	Slave trade abolished in the British Empire		1807
1808	French occupy Spain; Peninsular War begins					1808
1810	(1) Bolivar in South America (2) Mexican War