Important Historical Events of the year 1807, Year 1807 in History

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List of 1807 Major News Events in History, Most Important Historical Events in 1807

What happened in the year 1807?

Date	Event
February 3, 1807	A British military force, under Brigadier-General Sir Samuel Auchmuty captures the Spanish Empire city of Montevideo, now the capital of Uruguay.
February 7, 1807	Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon finds Bennigsen's Russian forces taking a stand at Eylau. After bitter fighting, the French take the town, but the Russians resume the battle the next day.
February 8, 1807	After two days of bitter fighting, the Russians under Bennigsen and the Prussians under L'Estocq concede the Battle of Eylau to Napoleon.
February 19, 1807	Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
March 2, 1807	The U.S. Congress passes the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of new slaves into the country.
March 25, 1807	The Swansea and Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes the first passenger-carrying railway in the world.
April 12, 1807	The Froberg mutiny on Malta ends when the remaining mutineers blow up the magazine of Fort Ricasoli.
May 1, 1807	The Slave Trade Act 1807 takes effect, abolishing the slave trade within the British Empire.
May 22, 1807	A grand jury indicts former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr on a charge of treason.
May 29, 1807	Mustafa IV became Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
June 14, 1807	Emperor Napoleon's French Grande Armée defeats the Russian Army at the Battle of Friedland in Poland (modern Russian Kaliningrad Oblast) ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
June 22, 1807	In the Chesapeake–Leopard affair, the British warship HMS Leopard attacks and boards the American frigate USS Chesapeake.
June 28, 1807	Second British invasion of the Río de la Plata; John Whitelocke lands at Ensenada on an attempt to recapture Buenos Aires and is defeated by the locals.
June 29, 1807	Russo-Turkish War: Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
July 5, 1807	In Buenos Aires the local militias repel the British soldiers within the Second English Invasion.
July 7, 1807	The first Treaty of Tilsit between France and Russia is signed, ending hostilities between the two countries in the War of the Fourth Coalition.
July 9, 1807	The second Treaty of Tilsit is signed between France and Prussia, ending the War of the Fourth Coalition.
July 20, 1807	Nicéphore Niépce is awarded a patent by Napoleon for the Pyréolophore, the world's first internal combustion engine, after it successfully powered a boat upstream on the river Saône in France.
August 17, 1807	Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.
August 29, 1807	British troops under Sir Arthur Wellesley defeat a Danish militia outside Copenhagen in the Battle of Køge.
September 2, 1807	Napoleonic Wars: The British Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.
November 29, 1807	John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.
December 17, 1807	Napoleonic Wars: France issues the Milan Decree, which confirms the Continental System.
December 22, 1807	The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.