Rio becomes the capital of Portugal
For 13 years a colony is the capital of its own empire
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Fleeing Napoleon's army, the Portuguese court boarded ships at the end of 1807 and sailed to Brazil. From 1808 to 1821 Rio de Janeiro was the capital of the whole Portuguese empire, a rare case of a colony governing its mother country.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — 19 years earlier
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — 12 years earlier
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — 4 years earlier
- 1805 Battle of Trafalgar — 3 years earlier
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 6 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — 25 years earlier
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 4 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 20 years later
Africa
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 10 years earlier
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 4 years earlier
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 3 years earlier
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 7 years later
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 9 years later
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 11 years later
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 23 years later
Oceania
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 20 years earlier
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- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 59)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 39)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 38)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 25)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 9)
- James Watt (aged 72)
- George III (aged 70)
- Thomas Jefferson (aged 65)
- Mikhail Kutuzov (aged 63)
- Louis XVIII (aged 53)