Rum Rebellion
Officers depose Governor Bligh — of Bounty fame
On 26 January 1808 officers of the New South Wales Corps under Major George Johnston arrested Governor William Bligh, who had tried to curb their trade in rum and land. It is the only successful armed takeover of government in Australia's history, and the second mutiny against Bligh, whose Bounty crew had rebelled in 1789.
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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
- 1807–1814 Peninsular War — 1 year earlier
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 6 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1783 Russian annexation of Crimea (1783) — 25 years earlier
- 1807 Treaties of Tilsit — 1 year earlier
- 1812 Napoleon's invasion of Russia — 4 years later
- 1812 Battle of Borodino — 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
- 1830 France invades Algiers — 22 years later
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
Americas
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — 5 years earlier
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 2 years later
- 1812–1815 War of 1812 — 4 years later
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 9 years later
- 1821 Mexican independence — 13 years later
Alive at the time
- 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)