* 1725 – Pasquale Paoli, Corsican patriot and military leader ( d. 1807 )

* 1807 – Emilie Flygare-Carlén, Swedish novelist ( d. 1892 )

" Amazing Grace " is a Christian hymn with words written by the English poet and clergyman John Newton ( 1725 – 1807 ), published in 1779.

* 1807 – Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York, New York for Albany, New York on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

He was one of the founders of the Geological Society of London in 1807 and was its honorary secretary in 1812 – 1817.

* Arthur Wellesley, 2nd Duke of Wellington ( 1807 – 1884 ), British soldier and nobleman

* 1807 – David Rice Atchison, American politician ( d. 1886 )

** 10 March 1803 – 26 April 1803 Johann Rudolf Dolder ( b. 1753 – d. 1807 )

" Tradition, reported by George Chalmers in his Caledonia ( 1807 ), and by the New Statistical Account ( 1834 – 1845 ), has it that the early-historic mound of the Cunninghillock by Inverurie is the burial place of Áed.

His sons were: Mustafa IV ( 1807 – 08 ) ( his son by Ayşe Seniyeperver ), Mahmud II ( 1808 – 39 ) ( his son by Naksh-i-Dil Haseki ), Murad, Nusret, Mehmed, Ahmed, and Süleyman.

His siblings included Sarah ( 1802 – 1859 ), Naphtali ( 1807 ), Ralph ( 1809 – 1898 ), and James ( 1813 – 1868 ).

Following his conquest of most of Western Europe, the first Napoleon made his elder brother Joseph ( 1768 – 1844 ) king first of Naples ( 1806 – 1808 ) and then of Spain ( 1808 – 1813 ), his third brother Louis ( 1778 – 1846 ) king of Holland ( 1806 – 1810 ) ( subsequently forcing his abdication after his failure to subordinate Dutch interests to those of France ) and his youngest brother Jérôme Bonaparte ( 1784 – 1860 ) king of Westphalia, the short-lived realm created from some of the states of northwestern Germany ( 1807 – 1813 ).

* Jérôme I ( 1807 – 1813 )

#** Joseph Lucien Bonaparte ( 1806 – 1807 )

#** Jeanne Adélaïde Bonaparte ( 1807 – 1829 )

Most of the current inhabitants are descended from the slaves brought to work on the Loyalist plantations, or from liberated Africans set free by the British navy after the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire in 1807.

In 1807 he received the title of Most Serene Highness.

Beside an immense number of decorations, in Spain he was:? th Marqués de Alcúdia with the previous title of? th Vizconde de Alto Castillo ( titles dated 1722 ) ( Royal Cedule of June 10, 1792 ), 1st Duque de Alcúdia Grandee of Spain First Class with a Coat of Arms of de Godoy ( Letter of July 4, 1792 ), 1st Principe de la Paz ( Letter of September 27, 1795 ), 1st Duque de Sueca Grandee of Spain First Class ( Letter of March 7, 1804 ), 1st Barón de Mascalbó, in Catalonia, with a Coat of Arms of de Godoy ( Letter of June 23, 1806 ) for being the Perpetual Decane Regedor ( Rector ) of Reus, and had the treatment of Most Serene Highness ( 1807 ).

Most of the palace was destroyed during the Peninsular War ( 1807 – 1814 ) with the First French Empire.

In 1807 Manuel de Godoy, Prince de la Paz, was accorded the style of Most Serene Highness, a treatment unique in that country.

Most notable were the engagements of the Horse Artillery ( Korps Rijdende Artillerie ) at the Battle of Friedland in 1807, the capture of the city of Stralsund in 1807 and 1809 and the participation of the Dutch Brigade in the Peninsular War between 1808 and 1810.

Most Kentuckians resented the replacement of the Embargo Act of 1807 with the weaker Non-Intercourse Act of 1809 and Macon's Bill Number 2.

* 1807 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist ( b. 1725 )

* 1724 – George Townshend, 1st Marquess Townshend, English field marshal ( d. 1807 )

* 1725 – John Newton, English sailor and clergyman ( d. 1807 )

* 1807 – Thomas Hawksley, English engineer ( d. 1893 )

* John Walker ( lexicographer ) ( 1732 – 1807 ), English lexicographer, actor and philologist

To the Friends of Literature in the United States, Webster's prospectus ( book ) | prospectus for his first dictionary of the English language, 1807 – 1808

In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded and fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language ; it took eighteen years to complete.

* 1807 – Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher ( d. 1858 )

Direct tracings of the vibrations of sound-producing objects such as tuning forks had been made by English physician Thomas Young in 1807, but the first known device for recording airborne speech, music and other sounds is the phonautograph, patented in 1857 by French typesetter and inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville.

* July 24 – John Newton, English cleric and hymnist ( d. 1807 )

It was not until 1807 that English law abolished the African slave trade.

Stephen Childe ( 1807 – 1923 ) had been the son of William Childe, a stern English priest and teacher, and had followed in his father's footsteps by being ordained into the Church of England in 1867 after gaining a BA from the University of Cambridge.

Incorporated in 1807 from part of New London, the town took its name from Dr. James Wilmot, an English clergyman who had spoken out against England's treatment of the American colonies.

In 1807 he declared himself " président et généralissime des forces de terre et de mer de l ' État d ' Haïti '" ( English: President and Generalissimo of the armies of land and sea of the State of Haïti ).

* Robert Montgomery ( poet ) ( 1807 – 1855 ), English poet and minister

He divorced Mary for adultery by legal actions in 1807 and 1808 in the English and Scottish courts — and by act of parliament — which caused much public scandal.

* Charles Moore ( English politician ) ( 1771 – 1826 ), English politician, Member of Parliament 1799 – 1802, 1802 – 1806 and 1807 – 1812

William Markham ( 1719 – 1807 ), English divine and archbishop of York, was educated at Westminster and at Christ Church, Oxford.

Christopher Wordsworth ( 30 October 1807 – 20 March 1885 ) was an English bishop and man of letters.

Gustav IV naturally rejected all the proposals of Alexander to close the Baltic against the English ; but took no measures to defend Finland against Russia, though, during the autumn of 1807, it was notorious ( obvious ) that the tsar was preparing to attack the grand duchy.

John Opie ( 16 May 1761 – 9 April 1807 ) was an English historical and portrait painter.

Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt ( 10 October 1757 – 5 November 1847 ) was an English clergyman who was Bishop of Carlisle from 1791 to 1807, and then Archbishop of York until his death.