A Regency Era Timeline 1807 in progress
Timeline
Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.
With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,
The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein
Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield
What Happened When by Carruth.
, History of the World. A beautiful Dorling Kindersley book.
I now and diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.
Here is the start of 1807:
Year
Month Day
Event
1807
Jan 2
Lord Grenville presented to British Parliament a “Bill for the Abolition of the Slave Trade,” effective May 1. He introduced it directly to the House of Lords. It passed the House of Lords by 64 votes and cleared the House of Commons on March 25.
1807
Jan 7
Responding to Napoleon’s blockade of the British Isles, The British blockaded Continental Europe.
1807
Jan 11
Ezra Cornell, founder of Western Union Telegraph and Cornell University (NY), was born in Westchester, NY.
1807
Jan 19
Robert E. Lee, the commander-in-chief of the Civil War Confederate Armies, was born in Stratford, Va.
1807
Jan 20
Napoleon convened the great Sanhedrin in Paris.
1807
Jan 22
President Thomas Jefferson exposed a plot by Aaron Burr to form a new republic in the Southwest.
1807
Jan 28
London’s Pall Mall was 1st street lit by gaslight.
1807
January
January: London’s Pall Mall is the first street to be lit by gaslight.
1807
Feb 5
Pasquale Paoli (80), Corsican freedom fighter, died.
1807
Feb 8
At Eylau, Poland, Napoleon’s Marshal Pierre Agureau attacked Russian forces in a heavy snowstorm. Like Napoleon, to whom he is most often compared, Alexsandr Suvorov believed that opportunities in battle are created by fortune but exploited by intelligence, experience and an intuitive eye. To him, mastery of the art and science of war was not, therefore, purely instinctive. Napoleon’s forces ran low on supplies at Eylau and ate their horses.
1807
Feb 9
French Sanhedrin was convened by Napoleon.
1807
Feb 19
Former Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested in Alabama. He was subsequently tried for treason and acquitted. [see May 22, Sep 1]
1807
Feb 24
In a crush to witness the hanging of Holloway, Heggerty and Elizabeth Godfrey in England 17 died and 15 were wounded.
1807
Feb 27
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (d.1882), was born in Portland, Maine. He was an American poet famous for “The Children’s Hour,” and “Evangeline.” “What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries—these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the soul.”
1807
31-Mar
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom: William Henry Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland
1807
Mar 2
Congress banned slave trade effective January 1, 1808. The further importation of slaves was abolished but an inter-American slave trade continued.
1807
Mar 5
1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven’s 4th Symphony in B.
1807
Mar 25
William Wilberforce (1759-1833), evangelical member of Parliament, piloted a slave-trade abolition bill through the British House of Commons. This led to a labor problem in South Africa. In 1833 Britain abolished slavery throughout the British Empire when the Slavery Abolition Bill was read a third time
1807
Mar 25
1st railway passenger service began in England.
1807
March
March: Beethoven premiers his Fourth Symphony (Symphony No. 4 in B Flat Major, Opus 60) in Vienna.
1807
March
March: George III dismisses his prime minister Lord Grenville and replaces him with the Duke of Portland.
1807
March
March: Parliament passes the Slave Trade Act, ending the trade in slaves but not slavery.
1807
March
March: The horse-powered Swansea and Mumbles Railway in Wales, originally built to transport mined ore to the Swansea docks, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world. It does not covert to steam-powered locomotives until 1877.
1807
Apr 4
Joseph Jerome Le Francaise de Lalande, French astronomer, died.
1807
Apr 18
Erasmus Darwin, physician, writer (Influence), died.
1807
Apr 20
Aloysius Bertrand (“Gaspard de la Nuit”), French poet, was born.
1807
May 1
John Bankhead “Prince John” Magruder, Major General (Confederate Army), was born.
1807
May 22
The treason trial of former VP Aaron Burr began in Richmond, Va. [see Sep 1]
1807
May 22
Townsend Speakman 1st sold fruit-flavored carbonated drinks in Phila.
1807
May 28
Jean Louis Agassiz (d.1873), Swiss naturalist and educator, was born. He wrote a succession of papers [1840] outlining continental glaciation not only of Europe but of North America.
1807
Jun 22
British officers of the HMS Leopard boarded the USS Chesapeake after she had set sail for the Mediterranean, and demanded the right to search the ship for deserters. Commodore James Barron refused and the British opened fire with broadsides on the unprepared Chesapeake and forced her to surrender. The British provocation led to the War of 1812.
1807
Jun 24
A grand jury in Richmond, Va., indicted former Vice President Aaron Burr on charges of treason and high misdemeanor. He was later acquitted.
1807
Jun 25
Napoleon I of France and Russian Czar Alexander I met near Tilsit, in northern Prussia, to discuss terms for ending war between their empires.
1807
Jun 25
Napoleon I of France and Russian Czar Alexander I met near Tilsit, in northern Prussia, to discuss terms for ending war between their empires.
1807
June
June: Napoleon defeats Russian troops at the Battle of Friedland.
1807
June
June: The Elgin Marbles are displayed to the public for the first time.
1807
Jul 2
In the wake of the Chesapeake incident, in which the crew of a British frigate boarded an American ship and forcibly removed four suspected deserters, President Thomas Jefferson ordered all British ships to vacate U.S. territorial waters.
1807
Jul 4
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) Italian military leader, was born in Nice, France. He led the movement to make Italy one nation.
1807
Jul 7
Napoleon I of France and Czar Alexander I of Russia signed a treaty at Tilsit ending war between their empires. It divided Europe among themselves and isolated Britain.
1807
July
July: The Earl of Minto becomes the Governor-General of India.
1807
July
July: The Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia divides Europe between the two powers. The new kingdom of Westphalia is created by merging territories ceded by Prussia, including the former Electorate of Hanover, with the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg and the Electorate of Hesse. Napoleon’s brother Jérôme Bonaparte is named King of Westphalia.
1807
July
July: Yesterday, just as His Majesty’s carriage arrived at the Queen’s palace, a woman decently dressed attempted to force her way into the palace after His Majesty. Mssrs. Manus, Townsend, and Sayers were in attendance; they seized her, and she proved to be the same woman Sayers apprehended a few weeks since, under similar circumstances. She was extremely violent, and said she was sent by the Almighty to see the king, who was a very good sort of man, if they would let him alone. She had a petition and a pamphlet, which she wanted to give to the king. The officers took her to the secretary of state’s office. Her name is Margery Flett, and she resides in Star Court, Nightingale Lane, Wapping.-The Lady’s Magazine
1807
Aug 3
Former Vice President Aaron Burr went on trial before a federal court in Richmond, Va., charged with treason. He was acquitted less than a month later.
1807
Aug 11
David Atchison, legislator, was born. He was president pro tempore of the U.S. Senate, and president of U.S. for one day [March 4, 1849], the Sunday before Zachary Taylor was sworn in.
1807
Aug 11
The Eclipse, a Yankee fur trading vessel, sank in the Shumagin Islands, south of the Alaska Peninsula. It is the oldest known American shipwreck in Alaska and as of 2007 had not been found.
1807
Aug 17
Robert Fulton’s “North River Steam Boat” (popularly, if erroneously, known to this day as the Clermont) began heading up New York’s Hudson River on its successful round-trip to Albany. It was 125 feet (142-feet) long and 20 feet wide with side paddle wheels and a sheet iron boiler. He averaged 5 mph for the 300-mile round trip.
1807
Aug 18
Charles Francis Adams (d.1886), U.S. diplomat and public official whose father was John Quincy Adams, was born.
1807
Aug 18
Robert Stevenson (1772-1850) began work on the 117-foot Bell Rock lighthouse at the mouth of Scotland’s Firth of Forth based on a proposal he submitted in 1800. The lighthouse began operating on Feb 1, 1811.
1807
Aug 19
Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat arrived in Albany, two days after leaving New York.
1807
Aug 21
Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat set off from Albany on its return trip to New York, arriving some 30 hours later.
1807
Sep 1
Former Vice President Aaron Burr was found innocent of treason. [see 1806] Burr had been arrested in Mississippi for complicity in a plot to establish a Southern empire in Louisiana and Mexico. Burr was then tried on a misdemeanor charge, but was again acquitted.
1807
Sep 2
British forces began bombarding Copenhagen for several days, until the Danes agreed to surrender their naval fleet.
1807
Sep 4
Robert Fulton began operating his steamboat. [see Aug 17]
1807
Sep 7
Denmark surrendered to British forces that had bombarded the city of Copenhagen for four days.
1807
Sep 15
Former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted of a misdemeanor charge two weeks after he was found innocent of treason.
1807
Oct 17
Britain declared it would continue to reclaim British-born sailors from American ships and ports regardless of whether they held US citizenship.
1807
November
November: Painter Angelica Kauffmann dies at age 66, and is honored by a splendid funeral under the direction of Antonio Canova.
1807
November
November: Portugal refuses to honor the trade embargo against England, and Napoleon sends an army into Spain with the task of invading Portugal. Spain enters into the alliance with France under promises of Portuguese territories, and also with an eye on the Portuguese fleet.
1807
Dec 14
A number of meteorites fell onto Weston, Connecticut.
1807
Dec 17
John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet, was born in Haverhill, Mass. He was an abolitionist, reformer and founder of the Liberal Party.
1807
Dec 22
Congress passed the Embargo Act, designed to force peace between Britain and France by cutting off all trade with Europe. It was hoped that the act would keep the United States out the European Wars.
1807
December
December: Lisbon is captured by the French.
1807
Charles Lamb and his sister Mary publish the children’s book, Tales of Shakespeare, and it is an instant bestseller.
1807
Horseman from the west frieze of the Parthenon, part of the “Elgin Marbles” brought to England by Lord Elgin between 1801 and 1812. They were first displayed in 1807 in a special shed built by Lord Elgin at a house he rented on Park Lane. In 1811 the Duke of Devonshure agreed to house them at Burlington House. Elgin was finally able to sell them to the British Museum in 1816. From their first exhibition in 1807, the sculptures drew enormous interest. Artists and poets praised them, but others, like Lord Byron, denounced Elgin as a vandal and thought the scultures should have remained in situ. Many still agree with him, and there is an ongoing debate between the Greek government and the British Museum about the rightful disposition of the sculptures.
1807
Jacques Louis David paints his monumental work, The Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine.
1807
Lord Byron publishes his first volume of poetry, Hours of Idleness.
1807
The Geological Society of London is founded, the first society devoted to earth sciences in the world. Humphry Davy is one of its founders.
1807
The slave trade is abolished.
1807
Wordsworth publishes Poems In Two Volumes, including the poems “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” and “The World is Too Much With Us.”
1807
1807
Robert Fulton’s Clermont first successful steamboat.
1807
Extending its power at sea, Britain outlaws slave trading across the Atlantic for its own ships and for ships from all countries united with Napoleon. Britain turns a presence on the coast of western Africa into a crown colony — Sierra Leone.
1807
The U.S. Congress passes a law that bans the importation of slaves into the U.S., a law to be largely ignored in southern states.
1807
In Manchester, England, the largest factory complex in the world opens and the event draws spectators from across Britain and beyond. The factory uses steam acquired from burning coal. It’s a change from power by river water, which is too limited a source for the coming industrial expansion. The availability of coal is helping the British surpass the Dutch industrially.
1807
The Geological Society of London is created, the founders expressing their desire to avoid preconceived notions and to collect facts for discussion.
1807
With help from the French, Muhammad Ali Pasha drives the British out of Egypt (a part of the Ottoman Empire).
1807
Napoleon moves to consolidate his position in Europe. He defeats a combined Prussian and Russian force in February. Danzig surrenders to him. He defeats the Russians in June and occupies Königsberg. Alexander of Russia is annoyed with the British and agrees to meet with Napoleon. In August, Napoleon demands that Portugal join the trade boycott against the British and declare war on Britain. Portugal hesitates. Napoleon’s ally, Spain, allows French troops to pass through its territory to Portugal. The French captured Lisbon as Portugal’s royal family flees to Brazil.
1807
The US Congressional Cemetery near Capital Hill was established.
1807
The US Survey of the Coast formed. It later developed into the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
1807
Lieutenant Zebulon Montgomery Pike strayed beyond the limits of the territory into the Spanish-held territory of New Mexico, and was accused of spying by Spanish authorities. The Spaniards released Pike and his men after they could find no evidence against him. Pike’s explorations the previous November had taken him to the Rockies, where he reached the base of a mountain that would later be named Pikes Peak in his honor. Pike’s mission was to explore the southwestern limits of the Louisiana Territory, the vast tract of land that the United States had purchased from France in 1803 in a deal known as the Louisiana Purchase.
1807
The Geological Society of London was born. It was the first body of men devoted to the earth sciences.
1807
Englishmen William and John Cockerill brought the Industrial Revolution to continental Europe around 1807 by developing machine shops in Liege, Belgium, transforming the country’s coal, iron and textile industries much as it had done in Britain. From roughly 1760 to about 1830, the Industrial Revolution largely occurred in Britain. Realizing the economic advantages, Britain did not allow the export of any machinery, methods or skilled men that might blunt its technological edge. Eventually, the lure of new opportunities convinced continental entrepreneurs and British businessmen to evade England’s official edict.
1807
After Britain outlawed the slave trade people called “Recaptives,” those freed from slave ships, were sent to join the settlers in Sierra Leone. The settlers formed a new tribe called the Kri and created a language called Krio.
1807
Zheng Yi Sao took over a confederation of pirates in the South China Sea about this time following the death if her husband. At its peak the confederation numbered some 50-70 thousand mend and controlled 800 large vessels. The group disbanded in 1810 under an offer of amnesty.
1807
In France Napoleon allied with Russia.
1807
Napoleon gave Danzig (later Gdansk) 6 years of formal independence.
1807
Ignace Playel founded a piano company in Paris, France.
1807
Saud al-Saud invaded Karbala, Iraq, for the second time in 1807, but he could not occupy it.
1807
In Naples, Italy, Major Leopold Hugo, the father of Victor Hugo, was promoted after a successful campaign against the Calabrian banditti.
1807
Serfdom was abolished in the Lithuanian territories known as Suvalkija and Dzukija as far as the Nemunas river. This area had been given to Prussia in the 1795 division and then included into the Warsaw Principality.
1807-1808
Mustafa IV succeeded Selim III in the Ottoman House of Osman.
1807-1809
A Jefferson imposed embargo kept American ships at home. [see Dec 22 1807]
1807-1815
Britain and the Defeat of Napoleon, 1807-1815 by Rory Muir was published in 1996.
1807-1859
Gamaliel Bailey, American abolitionist: “Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is—it is her shadow.”
1807-1877
US Sen. John Petit. He once called the Declaration of Independence a “self-evident-lie” in reference to the freedom of blacks.
1807-1881
Giovanni Ruffini, Italian writer: “Curses are like processions. They return to the place from which they came.”
That’s right, today is the first week that it is available. Kindle’s today, and then in a week or so, you can have it in your hands physically if you so desire in Trade Paperback form as the other releases from our publisher, Regency Assembly Press does.
This release the publisher is trying out the Kindle Select program so it is exclusive to Amazon for 90 days. What that means for you, a reader, is that should you have
1) a Kindle
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then you can borrow the book, free to you, and try before you buy (always, please buy.)
For myself and Regency Assembly Press it is an experiment. RAP (And we hope you all are RAPpers and not RAPscallions) wants to see if this will work. They have also reduced the price of this book to half of what RAP books sell for. $3.99 for an electronic copy.
If you do not have an actual Kindle, Amazon has made it possible to read this book on virtually any electronic device. GO HERE if you want to get a copy for something other than a Kindle, or wait patiently until right before Thanksgiving (November 15th) when it will be released in all other digital formats.
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Love is something that can not be fostered by deceit even should one’s eyes betray one’s heart.
Two brothers that are so close in appearance that only a handful have ever been able to tell them apart. The Earl of Kent, Percival Francis Michael Coldwell is only older than his brother, Peregrine Maxim Frederick Coldwell by 17 minutes. They may have looked as each other, but that masked how they were truthfully quite opposite to one another.
For Percy, his personality was one that he was quite comfortable with and more than happy to let Perry be of a serious nature. At least until he met Veronica Hamilton, the daughter of Baron Hamilton of Leith. She was only interested in a man who was serious.
Once more, Peregrine is obliged to help his older brother by taking his place, that the Earl may woo the young lady who has captured his heart. That is, until there is one who captures Peregrine’s heart as well.
Available in other digital formats on 11/15/2012
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