1807

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Years: 1804 1805 1806 - 1807 - 1808 1809 1810
Decades: 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s
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1807 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar).

1 Events
2 Ongoing events
3 Births
4 Deaths

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Events

February - Napoleon attacks Russia.
February 7 - Napoléon's French Empire begin fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at the Battle of Eylau in Eylau, Poland.
February 8 - Battle of Eylau - Napoleon fights a hard, but inconclusive battle against the Russians under Bennigsen.
February 19 - In Alabama, Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is tried for conspiracy and acquitted.
March 2 - The U.S. 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.
April 27 - French forces capture Danzig after a six week siege.
May 22 - Sufficient evidence is presented to a grand jury to indict former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr for treason.
June - Chesapeake-Leopard Affair.
June 6 - Earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal.
June 14 - Battle of Friedland. Napoleon decisively defeats Bennigsen's Russian army.
July 5 - Disastrous British attack to Buenos Aires.
July 7-9 - Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia. Napoleon and Russian Emperor Alexander I ally together against the British. The Prussians are forced to cede more than half their territory, which is formed into the Duchy of Warsaw in their former Polish lands and the Kingdom of Westphalia in western Germany.
July 13 - With the death of Henry Benedict Stuart, the last Stuart claimant to the throne of the United Kingdom, the movement of Jacobitism comes to an effective end.
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 U.S. 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.
September 2 - September 7 - British Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon. 30% of the city was destroyed and 2000 citizens were killed.
October 9 - Serfdom is abolished in Prussia by law.
Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Selim III (1789-1807) to Mustafa IV (1807-1808)
Battle of Abrantes - The French under Junot take the town.