Battle of the Pyramids
Napoleon takes Cairo, and Egyptology is born
Napoleon Bonaparte's army routed Murad Bey's Mamluk cavalry and occupied Cairo. The Egyptian campaign brought scholars who found the Rosetta Stone, launching Egyptology and growing European influence in the Middle East.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — 9 years earlier
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — 2 years earlier
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — 6 years later
- 1804–1813 First Serbian Uprising — 6 years later
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — 15 years earlier
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 14 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 17 years later
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 19 years later
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 21 years later
Americas
- 1776 US Declaration of Independence — 22 years earlier
- 1787 US Constitution — 11 years earlier
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — 7 years earlier
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — 5 years later
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 12 years later
Oceania
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 10 years earlier
Alive at the time
- George Washington (aged 66)
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 49)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 29)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 28)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 15)
- Qianlong Emperor (aged 87)
- Immanuel Kant (aged 74)
- Alexander Suvorov (aged 68)
- James Watt (aged 62)
- George III (aged 60)