Italian physicist Alessandro Volta describes to the Royal Society in London how his 'pile' of discs can produce electric current. Toussaint L'Ouverture emerges as the leader of Saint-Domingue, ruling without French colonial control. US president John Adams moves into the newly completed White House, named for its light grey limestone. Go to White House in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism.
Beethoven seeks medical advice for a very alarming condition, an increasing deafness. Napoleon takes a French army through the Alps before the snows have cleared, and defeats the Austrians at Marengo. Go to Burr, Aaron β in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. Go to Union, Acts of in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. Toussaint L'Ouverture invades the neighbouring Spanish colony of Santo Domingo, and becomes ruler of the whole island of Hispaniola. Horatio Nelson puts his telescope to his blind eye when the signal is given to withdraw from Copenhagen harbour.
Go to Nelson, Admiral Horatio β [Hist. Both France and Britain, engaged against each other in the Napoleonic Wars, take the first census of their populations.
The first census of the United Kingdom reveals that the population numbers approximately 9 million. A powerful French force arrives in Saint-Domingue and recovers control of the colony, offering generous terms to the native leaders. Bonaparte Crossing the Alps in is the first of several paintings by Jacques-Louis David celebrating the future emperor.
The British parliament passes the first Factory Act, limiting a child's working day in a factory to twelve hours. Toussaint L'Ouverture is treacherously arrested and sent to France, where he dies in prison.
