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1807 Calendar

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•  February 7, 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Eylau – Napoléon’s French Empire begins fighting against Russian and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at Eylau, Poland.
•  February 8, 1807 – Battle of Eylau – Napoleon defeats Russians under General Benigssen.
•  March 2, 1807 – The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
•  March 25, 1807 – The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger carrying railway in the world.
•  June 22, 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
•  June 28, 1807 – Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelock lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
•  June 29, 1807 – Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
•  November 27, 1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.
•  December 17, 1807 – France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.

•  January 11, 1807 – Ezra Cornell, American businessman and university founder (d. 1874)
•  January 19, 1807 – Robert E. Lee, American Confederate general (d. 1870)
•  January 27, 1807 – David Strauss, German theologian and writer (d. 1874)
•  June 6, 1807 – Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1847)
•  July 4, 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and political figure (d. 1882)
•  August 8, 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
•  October 4, 1807 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (d. 1864)
•  October 8, 1807 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (d. 1858)
•  December 17, 1807 – John Greenleaf Whittier, American poet and abolitionist (d. 1892)
•  December 22, 1807 – Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)