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1807 Calendar

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•  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.
•  May 22, 1807 – Most of the English town of Chudleigh is destroyed by fire
•  June 14, 1807 – Emperor Napoleon I’s French Grande Armee defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
•  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.
•  July 7, 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: the Peace of Tilsit between France, Prussia and Russia ends the Fourth Coalition.
•  September 2, 1807 – The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
•  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.
•  December 22, 1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

•  February 3, 1807 – Joseph E. Johnston, American Confederate general (d. 1891)
•  February 27, 1807 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (d. 1882)
•  March 1, 1807 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious figure (d. 1898)
•  June 30, 1807 – Friedrich Theodor von Vischer, German narrator, lyricist and philosopher (d.1887)
•  July 1, 1807 – Thomas Green Clemson, American educator (d. 1888)
•  July 4, 1807 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian military and political figure (d. 1882)
•  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)