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1800Volta invents the electric battery
18014 March - First Inagural Address by Thomas Jefferson
Islamic Kingdom of Sokoto founded in West Africa.
1802Treaty of Amiens signed by Britain and France
Mathew Flinders circumnavigates Australia (to 1803)
180330 April The Louisiana Purchase
18 January - President Thomas Jefferson Recommends a Western Expedition of the Newly purchased Louisiana territory in a confidential message to Congress.
Haitian Independence proclaimed by Jean Jacques Dessalines. He led the war for Independence.
180414 May Lewis and Clark Expedition of the Louisiana Territory begins with their departure from St. Louis.
1807Slave trade abolished in the British Empire.
18094 March - First Inaugural Address by James Madison.
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