Wikipedia: 1807

1807
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Events

Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Selim III (1789-1807) to Mustafa IV (1807-1808)
February - Napoleon attacks Russia
February 8 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen
February 19 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason.
March 2 - The United States Congress passes an act to "prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States ... from any foreign kingdom, place, or country."
March 25 - The Slave Trade Act becomes law abolishing slavery in the Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
March 29 - H. W. Olbers discovers the asteroid Vesta
May 22 - Sufficient evidence is presented to a grand jury to indict former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr for treason.
July 7 - Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia.
July 13- With the death of Henry Benedict Stuart ,the last Stuart claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom the movement of Jacobitism ends.
August 17 - The Clermont, Robert Fulton's first American steamboat, leaves New York City for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
September 1 - Former US Vice President Aaron Burr is acquitted of treason. He had been accused of plotting to annex parts of Louisiana and Mexico to become part of an independent republic.

May 18 - John Douglas, Anglican bishop
July 13 - Henry Benedict Stuart, claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom as King Henry IX.
December 21 - John Newton cleric, songwriter (Amazing Grace)

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