• English poet John Keats.
• Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle.
• American botanist Silas McDowell.
• English architect Sir Charles Barry.
• James Knox Polk, eleventh President of the United States.
• Pioneer Zionist Rabbi Zevi Hirsch Kalischer.
• Italian composer and librettist Maria Teresa d'Agnesi.
• American abolitionist and early feminist Fanny Wright.
• German composer Heinrich Marschner.
• German physiologist Ernst Heinrich Weber.
• German historian Leopold von Ranke.
• English explorer of Australia Charles Sturt, in India.
• French mathematician Gabriel Lamé.

• English stalker and biographer of Samuel Johnson, James Boswell.
• American Revolutionary war general Francis Marion, "The Swamp Fox".
• English potter Josiah Wedgwood.
• (June 8) Louis XVII, titular king of France, 9 years old, from the harsh conditions in the Temple Prison where he was held.

• To avoid another uprising in Poland, Prussia, Russia, and Austria each take another slice of that country. This would be for the final time, as this third partition divided up Poland completely among the three powers; Poland ceased to exist as a sovereign state.
• King Carlos IV of Spain grants Jose Cuervo the first concession to commercially produce Tequila.
• France continues to fight off (and advance against) just about every other European power.
• Great Britain builds a naval base on Bermuda.
• (February) The Treaty of Jaunay gives amnesty and freedom of worship to the Royalist rebels in the Vendee region.  For a while.
• (April 5) the Treay of Basel removes Austria and Prussia from the war. Prussia cedes its territory west of the Rhine to France.
• France finishes its conquest of The Netherlands, erecting a puppet "Batavian Republic" (May 16) organized along the lines of the French Republic.
• (July 22) Spain makes peace with France, and cedes its Santo Domingo colony on Hispaniola to France.
• Britain seizes the Dutch possessions of Ceylon (August 26) and the Cape Colony (September 16) before Feance can control them.
• A revolt breaks out among the Paris Sections, Royalists supporting the Comte d'Artois (later Louis XVIII).  A 26-year-old brigadier general from Corsica by the name of Napoleon Bonaparte is assigned to deal with the revolt, which he does (October 5) by firing cannon directly into the marching demonstrators.  In gratitude, Bonaparte is made commander of the French Army of the Interior.
• (November 27) A five-man ruling council known as The Directory is institited.
• Siam annexes Cambodia.
• The United States revises its flag to include 15 stars.
• Mungo Park begins his explorations along the Niger River.
• (October 27) the Pinckney Treaty establishes the border between the United States and Spanish West Florida at the 31st Parallel, and gives the United States navigation rights on the Mississippi River.
• Congress rejects a proposal to print Federal laws in German as well as English.
• The first all-metal printing press is built in England.
• James Hutton publishes his Theory of the Earth, the founding work of geology.

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