La Bataille de Friedland et Danzig 1809

The World Surrounding Friedland in 1807

In Haiti, the first president of that troubled nation, Henri Christopher is elected. In China, the first Protestant missionary, Robert Morrison arrives. Within 20 years thousands of missionaries would arrive in China. 1807 also saw tensions continue to rise between the British and the United States in the Chesapeake-Leonard Affair. The British Leonard stopped the USS Chesapeake on the high seas seeking deserters. Relations between the two countries would deteriorate until the War of 1812.

Both the United States and the British Empire would ban the slave trade

in 1807.

In the United States, Thomas Jefferson is president. Aaron Burr would be tried for treason, but is acquitted of all counts. In France, Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by the French government for the world's first internal combustion engine, the Pyréolophore. It had successfully powered a boat upstream the Saone. In the arts, 15 year old Rossini began to study counterpoint. His first opera was just three years away. Beethoven’s 4 th Symphony is performed for the first time in the private home of Bohemian Prince Franz Joseph von Lobkowitze. It is dedicates it to its patron, Silesian nobleman Count Franz von Oppersdorf.” Thomas Paine would publish The Age of Reason and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel would write The Phenomenology of Spirit.

Robert Fulton launches the Clermont. The world’s first commercial steamboat, it travels between New York City and Albany. At the time, it was derisively called Fulton’s Folly, but Fulton had the last laugh as it was one of the most important events of the American Industrial Revolution and changed the river-bound American landscape forever.

But other that, it was a quiet year.

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