Major Events
- Jan 28 London's Pall Mall becomes the first street lit by gaslight
- Feb 8 Battle of Eylau ends inconclusively between Napoleon's forces and the Russian Empire, first battle Napoleon isn't victorious
- Mar 2 US Congress bans the slave trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808
- Mar 25 British Parliament abolishes the slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120 per slave introduced for ship captains
- Jul 7 French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte and Russian Tsar Alexander I meet on a raft in the middle of the Neman River and sign the first Treaty of Tilsit
- Nov 27 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops
- More 1807 Events
Robert E. Lee
Robert McClure
Joseph E. Johnston
Giuseppe GaribaldiMore People Born in 1807
Fun Fact About 1807
Washington Irving's Salmagundi periodical published - first to associate the name "Gotham" with New York City
Comte de Rochambeau
Joseph BrantMore 1807 Deaths
Articles About 1807
Famous Weddings in 1807
- Feb 21 US President Martin Van Buren (24) weds high school sweetheart Hannah Hoes (23) in Catskill, New York
Ludwig van Beethoven
Napoléon Bonaparte
Thomas Jefferson
William Cavendish-Bentinck