Events

• January 1 - Importation of slaves into the United States is banned
• February 11 - Anthracite coal first burned as fuel, experimentally.
• February - Russia issues an ultimatum to Sweden, to join France Denmark and Russia and attacks Finland.
• March 26 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII
• April 6 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American Fur Company[?].
• May - Fortress of Sveaborg in Helsinki lost by Sweden to Russia.
• November - Swedish troops evacuate Finland, tsar Alexander proclaims Finland a part of Russia.
• November - James Madison defeats Charles C. Pinckney[?] in U.S. presidential election
• Change of emperor of the Ottoman Empire from Mustafa IV (1807-1808) to Mahmud II (1808-1839)
• December - Napoleon invades Spain

Births

• January 27-David Friedrich Strauss, German Theologians[?]
• February 5 - Carl Spitzweg, painter (+ 1885)
• February 26 - Honoré Daumier[?], painter, illustrator, lithograph and sculptor (+ 1879)
• October 6 - King Frederick VII of Denmark

Deaths

• March 13 - King Christian VII of Denmark
• May 18 - Elijah Craig, important to the invention of bourbon whiskey