A Regency Era Timeline 1800 Preliminary and a Giveaway
Now that the Lexicon is finished for a time, I am back at work on the Timelines, which you can find house
And should you think that I have gone silent, such is not the case. I have about a third of 1800 finished, giving you a glimpse now of this:
1800
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Year
Month Day
Event
1800
Jan 7
Millard Fillmore, 13th US president (1850-1853), was born in Summerhill (Locke), N.Y.
1800
Jan 8
Victor of Aveyron (~1785-1828), a feral child, emerged from French forests on his own. In 1797 he had been found wandering the woods near Saint-Sernin-sur-Rance, France, and was captured, but soon escaped. He was later portrayed in the 1969 movie, The Wild Child (L’Enfant sauvage), by François Truffaut.
1800
Jan 10
The US Senate ratified a peace treaty with Tunis.
1800
Jan 20
Carolina, the sister of Napoleon I, married King Joachim Murat of Naples.
1800
Jan 23
Edward Rutledge (50), US attorney (signed Declaration of Independence), died.
1800
Jan 24
Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer, was born.
1800
Jan 30
US population was reported at 5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%).
1800
Jan
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, his two sons and their families, arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, from France.
1800
Jan
Lord Elgin established his British embassy in Constantinople. His orders were to open the borders for trade, obtain entry for British ships to the Black Sea and to secure an alliance against French military expeditions in the eastern Mediterranean.
1800
Feb 11
William Henry Fox Talbot (d.1877), British inventor and pioneer in instantaneous photography, was born.
1800
Mar 14
James Bogardus, US inventor, builder (made cast-iron buildings), was born.
1800
Mar 17
English warship Queen Charlotte caught fire and 700 people died.
1800
Mar 20
French army defeated Turks at Heliopolis, Turkey, and advanced to Cairo.
1800
Apr 2
1st performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s 1st Symphony in C.
1800
Apr 15
Sir James Clark Ross, Scottish explorer, was born. He located the Magnetic North Pole.
1800
Apr 16
George Charles Bingham, British soldier, was born. He commanded the Light Brigade during its famous charge.
1800
Apr 24
US Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.
1800
April
April: Beethoven premiers his Symphony No. 1 in C major in Vienna.
1800
April
April: English poet William Cowper dies at age 68 .
1800
May 5
Louis Hachette, French publisher (Librairie Hachette), was born.
1800
May 7
US Congress divided the Northwest Territory into two parts, and Indiana, the latter out of the western portion, including Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana and parts of Michigan and Minnesota. The provisions of the Treaty of Paris (1783) which ended the Revolutionary War, had defined the borders of the US. Among other concessions, Great Britain agreed to a line through the Great Lakes that placed in US control the territory called the Old Northwest, between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. States that had previously laid claim to parts of the region ceded their territories in anticipation of the Northwest Ordinance of 1787.
1800
May 7
Niccolo Piccinni (72), Italian composer (Roland), died.
1800
May 9
John Brown, American abolitionist, was born. His adventures came to an end at Harper’s Ferry, where he tried to start a revolution against slavery.
1800
May 14
Friedrich von Schiller’s “Macbeth,” premiered in Weimar
1800
May 15
King George III survived a 2nd assassination attempt.
1800
May 19
French Bosbeeck, veterinarian, robber, was hanged.
1800
May
May: “The Masquerade given at the King’s Theatre, on the 1st instant, was numerously attended. Among the several characters, a Quack Doctor was most conspicuous – a Sylvester Daggerwood who had an infinite deal of nothing to say — Sailors, Countrymen, Chimney Sweepers, Flower Girls, Gipsies, a Tommy Tonsor, a band of Mrs. Montagu’s friends, a Rolla, who tore his fine speeches, full of logic and grammar, and a great number of Harlequins and Clowns, the former sans agility, the latter sans humor, filled up the scene. The supper was the best by far that has of late been given upon such an occasion, and the company was truly respectable. We cannot conclude this brief account without expressing our disapprobation of the indecent custom of men habiting themselves like women. The conduct of some persons of this description, during the evening, disgusted the greater part of the assembly; but at length some gentlemen, much to their credit, actually compelled them to retire from the merry scene.”- The Sporting Magazine
1800
May
May: An assissination attempt is made on George III at Drury Lane Theatre.
1800
May
May: Napoleon crosses the Alps and invades Italy.
1800
May-Dec
US presidential elections were held over this period. On Dec 3 state electors met and cast their ballots and a tie resulted between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
1800
Jun 4
The US White House was completed and President & Mrs. John Adams moved in. [see Nov 1]
1800
Jun 14
French General Napoleon Bonaparte pushed the forces of Austria out of Italy in the Battle of Marengo. In 2007 the sword he wore was auctioned off for over $6.4 million.
1800
Jun 14
Jean-Baptiste Kleber (47), French general, architect, was murdered.
1800
June
June: Napoleon drives the Austrians from Italy (which they had conquered while he was busy in Egypt) in the Battle of Marengo.
1800
June
The new city of Washington in the District of Columbia became the US capital, succeeding Philadelphia. This occurred when government departments began to move into their new buildings on land ceded to the federal government by Maryland and Virginia. The radial design of the city was created by the French architect Pierre Charles L’Enfant. Construction had begun in 1791 but was delayed following L’Enfant’s dismissal in 1792. The first Congress to sit in Washington convened on Nov. 17, 1800. The first president to live in the executive mansion, John Adams moved in also in November. The first president to be inaugurated there, Thomas Jefferson was sworn into office March 4 1801. The US was the first modern nation to design a city exclusively as a capital.
1800
Jul 6
The Sultan of Constantinople at the behest of Lord Elgin issued written orders to his officers in Athens for cooperation with Giovanni Lusieri and the removal of sculptures from the Parthenon.
1800
Jul 8
Dr. Benjamin Waterhouse gave the 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox. [see May 14, 1796]
1800
Aug 21
The US Marine Band gave its first concert near the future site of the Lincoln Memorial.
1800
Sep 6
Catherine Esther Beecher, educator who promoted higher education for women, was born in East Hampton, Long Island, NY.
1800
Sep 7
The NYC Zion AME Church was dedicated.
1800
Sep 23
William Holmes McGuffey, educator, was born. He is famous for his book “Eclectic Readers” (McGuffey Readers).
1800
September
September: At the invitation of the Maltese, British troops liberate the Islands of Malta and Gozo from the French.
1800
September
Cayuga Bridge, an engineering marvel of its time, was completed. It crossed the northern end of Cayuga Lake and the Montezuma Swamp in west central New York. The bridge, one and one-eighth of a mile long, was built of wood and was wide enough for wagons to pass abreast. Stages of the Genesee Turnpike used it, as did American troops in the War of 1812 on their way to the Niagara frontier. The bridge cot $150,000. It was financed by a loan from the Manhattan Company of New York City, which was founded in 1799 by Aaron Burr. Ostensibly established as a water supply company, the Manhattan Company had a charter broad enough so that it could function as a bank.
1800
Oct 1
Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.
1800
Oct 2
Nat Turner, slave and the property of Benjamin Turner, was born in Southampton county, Va. He was sold in 1831 to Joseph Travis from Jerusalem, Southampton county, Va.
1800
Oct 3
George Bancroft, historian, known as the “Father of American History” for his 10-volume A History of the United States, was born.
1800
Oct 7
Gabriel, slave revolt leader in Virginia, was hanged. Gabriel Prosser had mounted a slave rebellion.
1800
Oct 25
Thomas Babington Macaulay (d.1859), England, poet and historian, was born. “No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.”
1800
Oct 26
Helmuth Karl von Moltke, Prussian Field Marshal and Count, was born. His reorganization of the Prussian Army led to military victories that allowed the unification of Germany. His father was a German officer serving in the Danish army. His greatest innovation was the creation of a fighting force that could mobilize quickly and strike when and where it chose. He was one of the first generals to grasp the importance of railroads in moving troops. In 1995 Otto Friedrich authored a biography of the Moltke family line from Bismarck to Hitler: “Blood and Iron: From Bismarck to Hitler the von Moltke Family’s Impact on German History.”
1800
Nov 1
John and Abigail Adams moved into “the President’s House” in Washington DC. It became known as the White House during the Roosevelt administration.
1800
Nov 17
The Sixth Congress (2nd session) convened for the first time in Washington, DC, in the partially completed Capitol building. Previously, the federal capital had briefly been in other cities, including New York, Philadelphia, and Annapolis, Maryland. George Washington- a surveyor by profession- had been assigned to find a site for a capital city somewhere along the upper Potomac River, which flows between Maryland and Virginia. Apparently expecting to become president, Washington sited the capital at the southernmost possible point, the closest commute from Mount Vernon, despite the fact that this placed the city in a swamp called Foggy Bottom.
1800
Nov 24
Weber’s opera “Das Waldmadchen,” premiered in Freiburg.
1800
Dec 2
John Brown (d.1859), US abolitionist, was born. He was hanged for murder in the Harper’s Ferry Incident in 1859. John Brown led the raid on the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry. The incident is the backdrop for George MacDonald Fraser’s novel “Flashman and the Angel of the Lord.”
1800
Dec 3
Austrians were defeated by the French at the Battle of Hohenlinden, near Munich.
1800
Dec 3
US state electors met and cast their ballots for the presidency. A tie resulted between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr.
1800
Dec 12
Washington DC was established as the capital of US.
1800
Dec 29
Charles Goodyear (d.1860), inventor of vulcanized rubber for tires, was born.
1800
Dec
In Virginia Martha Washington set all her slaves free.
1800
December
December: Peace negotiations between France and Austria break down, and Napoleon sends General Moreau into Austria, where he is victorious at the Battle of Hohenlinden.
1800
December
December: Washington, DC is officially established as the capital of the United States.
1800
A new edition of Lyrical Ballads is published, with a Preface by William Wordsworth (expanded in the 1802 edition) that stands as a Romantic manifesto on the nature of poetry.
1800
Jacques Louis David paints his famous Portrait of Mme. Récamier.
1800
London’s Royal College of Surgeons is founded.
1800
Maria Edgeworth’s Castle Rackrent is published.
1800
In a secret treaty with Spain, the Treaty of San Ildefonso, France regains Louisiana.
1800
England’s population, around 5.25 million in 1720, has increased to around 9 million. World population has risen from between 600 and 680 million in 1700 to one billion, roughly calculated. The most populous cities in 1800 are: Guangzhou, China: 1.5 million. Hangchow, China: 1,000,000 Kingtehchen, China: 1,000,000 NanJing, China: 1,000,000 Edo (Tokyo), Japan 1,000,000 London, England: 865,000 Beijing, China: 700,000 Constantinople (Istanbul), Turkey: 598,000 Paris, France: 548,000 Kyoto, Japan:530,000
1800
Mexico City has a population of 250,000. New York City: 60,000. Population remains sparse in areas occupied by hunter-gatherers — in Africa and the plains of North America. Areas occupied by pastoral nomads are also sparse.
1800
In the US presidential elections Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr tied in electoral votes. The selection was then moved to the House of Representatives where on the 36th ballot Vermont and Maryland switch their votes to Jefferson. [see Feb 17, 1801]
1800
France Presern (d.1849), author, painter, poet, musician, mathematician and architect, was born in Slovenia. His image was later featured on Slovenia’s 1,000-tolar bills.
1800
Johann Christian Reinhart, German artist, created his work: “The History Painter, Caricature.”
1800
Friedrich Schiller wrote his drama “Mary Stuart.” The play is compressed into the last 3 days of Mary’s life.
1800
Rev. Mason L. Weems (d.1825) authored the biography “Life of Washington.”
1800
Father Demetrius Gallitzin (1770-1840), a Russian-born Catholic priest, was directed by bishop John Carroll to investigate spirits in the home (Wizard’s Clip) of Adam Livingstone in the Shenandoah Valley.
1800
Congress allocated a room in the Capitol for the US Supreme Court.
1800
The American political “revolution” brought the Republicans to office in the (sic) first peaceful transition of power between rival political parties in human history.
1800
Worcestershire sauce was a ketchup and came out about this time.
1800
Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, a pioneer trader and founder of the village that became Chicago, sold his holdings and moved to a Missouri farm.
1800
The population of the world doubled from what it was in 1500 to more than 800 million. The world’s population reached about 1 billion about this time. In 1927 it reached 2 billion; in 1959 3 billion; in 1987 5 billion; in 1999 6 billion and in 2011 7 billion.
1800
William Herschel (1738-1822), German-born English astronomer, detected what later became known as infra-red red light in experiments with glass prisms and thermometers.
1800
Alessandro Volta (1745-1827), Italian physicist, first demonstrated the electric pile or battery.
1800
Robert Fulton (35) tested a 20-foot model of his torpedo-armed submarine on the Seine. He made two 20-minute dives himself.
1800
John Chapman (1774-1845), Johnny Appleseed, a Swedenborgian missionary, a land speculator, a heavy drinker and an eccentric dresser, began planting orchards across western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana from seed. (T&L, 10/1980, p.42) )(AHD, p.225)(HNQ, 1/2/01)
1800
Lieven Bauwens stole a spinning “mule jenny” machine from Britain. He had it dismantled and smuggled out in a cargo of coffee. This enabled the textile industry in Ghent, Belgium, to greatly expand. Britain sentenced Bauwens to death in absentia and Ghent made him a hero.
1800
Mary Robinson (42/43), writer, actress, courtesan and fashion icon, died. In 2005 Sarah Gristwood authored “Perdita: Royal Mistress, Writer and Romantic.” Paula Byrne authored Perdita: The Literary, Theatrical, Scandalous Life of Mary Robinson.”
1800
The Parliament in Westminster passed an Act of Union formally binding Ireland with England and abolished the Irish parliament. The Act of Union entailed the loss of legislative independence of the Irish Parliament.
1800
The French regained the territory of Louisiana from Spain by the secret Treaty of Ildefenso.
1800
Dessalines, a lieutenant of Haitian rebel leader Toussaint L’Ouverture (Louverture), butchered many mulattoes (the estimates range from 200 to 10,000).
1800
The Althing of Iceland was abolished by the Danish king.
1800
About this time an Arab nomadic tribe settled in the southern Israeli desert of Negev. The Al-Sayyid community that developed there grew with a high incidence of profound deafness due to a recessive gene. The village developed a sign language in response that came to be called the Al-Sayyid Bedouin Sign Language (ABSL). In 2007 Margalit Fox authored “Signs and Wonders,” which told the Al-Sayyid story as part of a history of linguistics and sign language in American and the world.
1800
Ito Jakuchu (b.1716), Japanese painter based in Kyoto, died.
1800
In Sweden Count Balthazar Von Platen started the Gut Canal.
1800
Many Bantu people from Malawi, Mozambique and Tanzania were taken from their homes and sold as slaves in Somalia.
1800-1861
This period was covered by Nicholas E. Tawa in his 2000 book: “High-Minded and Low-Down: Music in the Lives of Americans, 1800-1861.”
1800-1900
Charles M. Russell, 19th century American landscape painter. In 2001 his painting “A Disputed Trail” sold for $2.4 million.
1800-1900
In the 1990s Claude Rawson wrote Vol. 4 of “The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: The Eighteenth Century.”
1800-1900
In California floods turned the Central Valley into a lake 700 miles long.
1800-1900
Sir David Brewster, 19th cent. Scottish scientist, inventor of the kaleidoscope.
1800-1900
J.H. Salisbury was a 19th century English dietician who recommended a diet of ground steak for a variety of ailments including pernicious anemia, tuberculosis and hardening of the arteries. His name gave rise to “Salisbury steak.”
1800-1900
19th century Tokyo was called Edo and served as the shogun’s power seat.
1800-1900
In what later became Pakistan feudal families came to power when the British made weak vassals into a hereditary land-owning elite loyal to London.
1800-1900
In South Africa the Witwatersrand gold mines were discovered, the largest gold reserve find in the world. The gold came from a strip of land 62 miles long and 25 miles wide and produced three-fourths of all the gold ever mined.
1800-1900
The main river channel at Hoi An, Vietnam, shifted toward Danang and made navigation by deep-draft ships difficult, and thus lost its commercial importance. A new port was built on the Han River at Da Nang.
We also have our Giveaway taking place:
For the Giveaway, see our original blog post from Saturday
I finished the Lexicon for this go round, (Found a list of Nautical terms from the period buried in my files to add for the next go round) so time for a little celebration.
For those who missed it, there are a lot of previous posts here of all the letters and you can skip back and have a look.
For this post and running through the week, the winner to be picked on Monday the 5th, I will be giving away a free eBook copy of Jane Austen and Ghosts
In the world of moviemaking, nothing is as golden as rebooting a classic tale that has made fortunes every time before when it has been adapted for the silver screen. Certainly any work by Jane Austen made into a movie will not only be bankable, but also considered a work of art.
That is of course until the current wave of adaptations that unite her classic stories with all the elements of the afterlife is attempted to be created. That these have found success in the marketplace amongst booklovers may not be quite understood by those who make movies. But that they are a success is understood and a reason to make them into movies.
All that being said, perhaps it would also be fair to say that the very proper Jane, were she present to have anything to say about it, would not be pleased. Of course she has been away from this Earth for nearly 200 hundred years. But does that mean were she upset enough, she wouldn’t come back?
But to enter the contest I should like 2 things. As Jane deals with old B Horror Movie legends in Jane Austen and Ghosts, I would like you to put in the comments section here:
1) The name of a B movie legend (and please let us try not to repeat since it will be fun to see how many we can come up with. So to start off, I will give one as an example, Boris Karloff)
2) One favorite word from the Lexicon which you can see each separate letter here in the Blog by looking at the previous days posts, or go to the entire lexicon at the Regency Assembly Press website, here (Regency Lexicon)
3) (Optional) Your name of course (if you are registered and signed into WordPress then I can click back to you if you are the winner, but if you are not,) and an email or some way to get you the prize!
4) (Optional) And if you are super proactive, what eBook format you would need should you be our winner!
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