End of the Holy Roman Empire
The empire founded by Otto I in 962 is dissolved
In the summer of 1806 sixteen German states left the empire to form the Confederation of the Rhine under Napoleon's protection. On 6 August Francis II laid down the crown of the Holy Roman Empire, remaining Emperor of Austria.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — 23 years earlier
- 1807 Treaties of Tilsit — 1 year later
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 6 years later
- 1812 Battle of Borodino — 6 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 22 years later
Africa
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 8 years earlier
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 2 years earlier
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 1 year earlier
- 1830 France invades Algiers — 24 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 9 years later
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 11 years later
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 13 years later
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 25 years later
Americas
- 1791–1804 Haitian Revolution — 15 years earlier
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — 3 years earlier
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 4 years later
- 1812–1815 War of 1812 — 6 years later
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 11 years later
Oceania
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 18 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 57)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 37)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 36)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 23)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 7)
- James Watt (aged 70)
- George III (aged 68)
- Thomas Jefferson (aged 63)
- Mikhail Kutuzov (aged 61)
- Louis XVIII (aged 51)