Ottoman–Wahhabi war
Muhammad Ali's army destroys the First Saudi State
On the sultan's orders Muhammad Ali of Egypt landed troops in the Hejaz in 1811 and by 1813 had won back Mecca and Medina for the Ottomans. In 1818 his son Ibrahim Pasha took and razed the Saudi capital, Diriyah, and Emir Abdullah was executed in Istanbul.
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Europe
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — 22 years earlier
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — 15 years earlier
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — 7 years earlier
- 1813 Battle of Leipzig — 2 years later
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 3 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1807 Treaties of Tilsit — 4 years earlier
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 1 year later
- 1812 Battle of Borodino — 1 year later
Africa
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 13 years earlier
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 7 years earlier
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 6 years earlier
- 1830 France invades Algiers — 19 years later
- c. 1835–1846 The Great Trek — 24 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 4 years later
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 6 years later
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 8 years later
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 20 years later
Americas
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — 8 years earlier
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 1 year earlier
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- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 6 years later
- 1821 Mexican independence — 10 years later
Oceania
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 23 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 62)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 42)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 41)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 28)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 12)
- Charles Darwin (aged 2)
- Abraham Lincoln (aged 2)
- James Watt (aged 75)
- George III (aged 73)
- Thomas Jefferson (aged 68)