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1807 Calendar

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•  February 3, 1807 – A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the city of Montevideo, then part of the Spanish Empire now the capital of Uruguay.
•  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 19, 1807 – In Alabama, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason and confined to Fort Stoddert.
•  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 Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
•  May 22, 1807 – A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
•  June 22, 1807 – In the Chesapeake–Leopard Affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
•  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.

•  January 6, 1807 – Jozef Maximilián Petzval, Slovak inventor (d. 1891)
•  January 16, 1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral (d. 1877)
•  March 14, 1807 – Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
•  May 28, 1807 – Louis Agassiz, Swiss-born zoologist and geologist (d. 1873)
•  June 6, 1807 – Thieu Tri, the third emperor of the Nguyễn Dynasty of Vietnam (d. 1847)
•  June 30, 1807 – Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist and philosopher (d.1887)
•  August 8, 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist (d. 1892)
•  September 5, 1807 – Richard Chenevix Trench, Irish Anglican clergyman and philologist (d. 1886)
•  October 4, 1807 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, French Canadian politician (d. 1864)
•  December 22, 1807 – Johann Sebastian Welhaven, Norwegian poet (d. 1873)