March 22: Britain defeats Denmark-Norway at theBattle of Zealand Point.May 2: ThePeninsular War begins as citizens of Spain begin uprising against the French occupiers.
The importation of slaves into the United States is formally banned, as the 1807Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves takes effect. However Americans still continue the slave trade by transporting Africans toCuba andBrazil.[1][2]
February 6 – The shipTopaz (from Boston April 5, 1807, hunting seals) "rediscovers" thePitcairn Islands; only oneHMSBounty mutineer is still alive,John Adams, who is using the pseudonym Alexander Smith.
A volcano erupts from an unknown location in the western Pacific. This causes a localized drop in marine air temperatures during this year and a worldwide drop in marine air temperature for the following decade.[8]
English chemistHumphry Davy informs theRoyal Society of London of his isolation and discovery of two elements by electrolysis. Fromlime, he has producedcalcium and established that lime is calcium oxide; by heatingboric acid andpotassium in a copper tube, he creates a substance he callsboracium, which is eventually calledboron.[9] This year he also isolatesmagnesium andstrontium.
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^Childs, Matt D. (2017). "Cuba, the Atlantic Crisis of the 1860s, and the Road to Abolition". In Doyle, Don H. (ed.).American Civil Wars: The United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Crisis of the 1860s.University of North Carolina Press..
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^E. I. Kouri and Jens E. Olesen, eds.The Cambridge History of Scandinavia: Volume 2, 1520–1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2016)
^Antigua and the Antiguans: A Full Account of the Colony and Its Inhabitants (1844, reprinted by Cambridge University Press, 2011) p136
^Chenoweth, M. (2001), Two major volcanic cooling episodes derived from global marine air temperature, AD 1807–1827, Geophys. Res. Lett., 28(15), 2963–2966,doi:10.1029/2000GL012648.
^Marco Fontani, Mariagrazia Costa and Mary Virginia Orna,The Lost Elements: The Periodic Table's Shadow Side (Oxford University Press, 2014)
^Thomas Hudson McKee,The National Conventions and Platforms of All Political Parties (Friedenwald, 1901) p18
^William James and Frederick Chamier,The Naval History of Great Britain, Volume 5 (Macmillan and Company, 1902) p53
^Jón Stefánsson,Denmark and Sweden: With Iceland and Finland (T.F. Unwin, Ltd., 1916) p332
^Edward C. Thaden,Russia's Western Borderlands, 1710–1870 (Princeton University Press, 2014) p85
^James Harvey Robinson and Charles A. Beard, eds.,Outlines of European History: From the opening of the eighteenth century to the present day (Ginn and Company, 1912) p214
^Sarah M. Fell:Genealogy of the Fell family in America, descended from Joseph Fell, who settled in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1705 : With some account of the family remaining in England, &c. Sickler, Philadelphia, 1891, p. 139: Jesse W. Fell[1]
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