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Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s Years: 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 - 1800 - 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805 Events March 14 - Cardinal Barnaba Chiaramonti is elected pope Pius VII March 21 - Pius VII becomes Pope May 15 - Napoleon Bonaparte crosses the Alps and invades Italy June 14 - Battle of Marengo, Napoleon defeats the Austrian troops near Marengo, Italy[?] June 27 - Pascha Jussuf Karamanli of Tripoli declares war on Sweden by having the flagpole on the consulate chopped down. September 5 - The island of Malta, that was occupied by the French, is conquered by British troops December 3 - Battle of Hohenlinden, the French army defeats the Austrian troops. December 24 - An assault on Napoleon Bonaparte fails in Paris Invention of the voltaic pile by Alessandro Volta: the first chemical battery The infrared radiation is discovered by Wilhelm Herschel Births January 7 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States 1850-1853 January 14 - Ludwig Alois Ferdinand Köchel, Austrian researcher on music February 11 - William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer March 15 - Heinrich von Dechsen[?], geologist and mineralogist (+ 1889) May 9 - John Brown, American abolitionist (+ 1859) July 31 - Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist October 2 - Nat Turner, leader of a slave rebellion October 25 - Thomas Macaulay, English poet Charles Goodyear[?], American rubber magnate Emperor Ninko of Japan Deaths January 1 - Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton, French naturalist March 14 - Daines Barrington, English naturalist April 25 - William Cowper, English poet
Centuries: 17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades: 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s - 1800s - 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
Years: 1795 1796 1797 1798 1799 - 1800 - 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805
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