March 5 – The New Brunswick Legislature passes a bill to advance literacy in the province, which eventually leads to the creation of public education in Canada.
August 27 – Napoleon orders the Grande Armée ("The Great Army") of some 165,000 men to march to the Rhine River to deal with the Austrian and Russian threats on the frontier. The French army is organized into seven corps and is supported by 36–40 cannons each. Napoleon orders Marshal Joachim Murat with his I Cavalry Corps (some 20,000 men), to make feint attacks through the Black Forest in south-west Germany.
August 31 – British Army General David Baird departs from Cork, leading an expedition to capture the Cape of Good Hope. Their ship arrives on January 4.[4]
September 21 – King Ferdinand of Naples signs a treaty in Paris agreeing to keep Naples neutral during the war between France and the allied powers.[5]
September 29 – Admiral Nelson of the British Royal Navy takes command of the fleet off the coast of Cadiz, in order to counteract the navies of France and Spain.[6]
November 20 – Beethoven's only opera Fidelio, in its original form (known retrospectively as Leonore), is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, which at this time is under French military occupation.
November 26 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened in Wales; it is 1,007 ft (307 m) long and 126 ft (38 m) tall.
December 31 – The French Republican Calendar (which featured a 10-day week until 1802) is used for the last time, 8 days after being annulled by Napoleon, with the final official date being "9 Nivôse in Year XIV of the Revolution".[9]
Date unknown
James Squire becomes the first brewer in Australia to cultivate hops.
The Old Man of the Mountain, a natural rock formation in the U.S. state of New Hampshire, is first mentioned by two workmen, Francis Whitcomb and Luke Brooks.
^Commission, Michigan Historical; Society, Michigan State Historical (1888). Michigan Historical Collections. Michigan Historical Commission. p. 218. Archived from the original on December 7, 2023. Retrieved February 8, 2021.
^Karen Jones and John Wills, The American West: Competing Visions (Edinburgh University Press, 2009) p17
^Kinley Brauer and William E. Wright, Austria in the Age of the French Revolution, 1789-1815 (Berghahn Books, 1990) p11
^"Baird, David", in A New General Biographical Dictionary, Volume 3, ed. by Hugh James Rose (T. Fellowes, 1857) p20
^Tales of the Wars; Or, Naval and Military Chronicle (William Mark Clark, 1836) p329
^The Englishman's library: comprising a series of historical, biographical, and national information (Charles Knight, 1824) p165
^Grocott, Terence (2002). Shipwrecks of the Revolutionary & Napoleonic Eras. Caxton Editions. ISBN1-84067-164-5.
^H. Arnold Barton, Scandinavia in the Revolutionary Era: 1760–1815 (University of Minnesota Press, 1986) p267
^Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution (Courier Corporation, 2012) p210
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