Treaties of Tilsit
Napoleon and Alexander I meet on a raft in the Neman
After defeat at Friedland, Alexander I made peace and an alliance with Napoleon and joined the Continental Blockade of Britain. Prussia lost about half its territory: its Polish lands became the Duchy of Warsaw and its western lands went into the Kingdom of Westphalia.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 1789 Storming of the Bastille — 18 years earlier
- 1796 Jenner's first vaccination — 11 years earlier
- 1804 Coronation of Napoleon — 3 years earlier
- 1807–1814 Peninsular War — same year
- 1814–1815 Congress of Vienna — 7 years later
Middle East
- 1828 Treaty of Turkmenchay — 21 years later
Africa
- 1798 Battle of the Pyramids — 9 years earlier
- 1804–1903 Usman dan Fodio's jihad and the Sokoto Caliphate — 3 years earlier
- 1805–1848 Muhammad Ali becomes ruler of Egypt — 2 years earlier
- 1830 France invades Algiers — 23 years later
Asia
- 1815 Eruption of Mount Tambora — 8 years later
- 1817–1824 First cholera pandemic — 10 years later
- 1819 Raffles founds modern Singapore — 12 years later
- c. 1831 Hokusai's Great Wave off Kanagawa — 24 years later
Americas
- 1803 Louisiana Purchase — 4 years earlier
- 1810–1826 Spanish American wars of independence — 3 years later
- 1812–1815 War of 1812 — 5 years later
- 1817 San Martín's Crossing of the Andes — 10 years later
- 1821 Mexican independence — 14 years later
Oceania
- 1788 First Fleet arrives in Australia — 19 years earlier
Alive at the time
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (aged 58)
- Napoleon Bonaparte (aged 38)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (aged 37)
- Simón Bolívar (aged 24)
- Alexander Pushkin (aged 8)
- James Watt (aged 71)
- George III (aged 69)
- Thomas Jefferson (aged 64)
- Mikhail Kutuzov (aged 62)
- Louis XVIII (aged 52)