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1807 and undertook
Given key responsibilities for the country's diplomacy in the Napoleonic Wars, he was responsible for planning the attack on Copenhagen in September 1807, much of which he undertook at his country estate, South Hill Park at Easthampstead in Berkshire.
The repugnance of the empress dowager to Savary is said to have been one of the reasons of his recall, but it is more probable that Napoleon felt the need of his gifts for intrigue in the Spanish affairs which he undertook at the close of 1807.

1807 and editorship
His unfinished Histoire de l ' anarchie de Pologne ( 4 vols., 1807 ) was published posthumously under the editorship of PCF Daunou.

1807 and newly
On November 2, 1807, the state legislature held its first session in the newly completed statehouse in Milledgeville.
Having taken his doctor's degree, he became Privatdozent at Jena ; in 1807 professor of theology at Heidelberg, where he came under the influence of J. F. Fries ( 1773-1843 ), whose hiring he helped arrange ( as well as that of Paulus ); and in 1810 was transferred to a similar chair in the newly founded Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin, where he became friendly with Friedrich Schleiermacher.
In 1807 Suwałki became part of the newly formed Duchy of Warsaw and one of the centres of the department of Łomża.
In 1807, the newly promoted Lt. Woolsey received orders to Washington, D. C., where he developed a code of signals for the Navy.
He completed his studies under Robert Jameson and others at Edinburgh, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1807, a member of the newly established Geological Society of London in 1808, and in the same year he returned to Ireland.
In 1807, 20-year-old Crown Prince Ludwig of the Kingdom of Bavaria, newly elevated by Napoleon, had the idea of reminding all Germans of their common heritage — of the great figures and events in ethnic German history.
By the act of February 24, 1807,, the authority of the Ohio district court to exercise the jurisdiction of a U. S. circuit court was repealed, and Ohio was assigned to the newly organized Seventh Circuit.
The present monumental principal facade was created in 1807 for the newly elevated Grand Duchess of Tuscany, Elisa Bonaparte.

1807 and projected
Thus it was first purged after its opposition to the projected Code civil in 1802 ( a purge made possible by a manoeuvre-the Tribunat was partially renewed at the regular interval, but it was unknown who in the Tribunat would be the first to be removed, and therefore Napoleon chose his opponents ), then suppressed by a decree of the Senate in 1807, with its remaining functions and members absorbed into the Corps législatif.

1807 and Edinburgh
* 1736 – Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh ( d. 1807 )
The first Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia was published in 1699 and the last in 1841 ; the first Dublin Pharmacopoeia in 1807 and the last in 1850.
* John Reid ( British Army officer ) ( aka John Robertson, 1721 – 1807 ), British army general and founder of the chair of music at the University of Edinburgh
He studied medicine at Edinburgh University, and became a surgeon in the navy in 1807.
Bell was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh on 8 June 1807, on the nomination of Robert Jameson, William Wright and Thomas Macknight.
Alan Stevenson ( 1807, Edinburgh – 1865, Portobello, Edinburgh ) was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses.
He began to study medicine at Edinburgh in 1795, taking his medical in 1807, but ill-health interrupted his practice as a physician, and he devoted his time mainly to chemical research, especially with regard to gases.
John Colin Dunlop ( circa 1785-1842 ), historian, son of a Lord Provost of Glasgow, Scotland, where and at Edinburgh he was educated, was elected to the Faculty of Advocates in 1807, and became Sheriff of Renfrewshire.
* Encyclopædia Perthensis or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Science and Literature, 23 volumes, Edinburgh 1807.
* John Reid ( British Army officer ) ( 1721 – 1807 ), British general and musical composer, who left a bequest to fund a chair in Music at the University of Edinburgh

1807 and Encyclopaedia
His work appears in Tilloch's Philosophical Magazine, and the Journal of the Society of Arts, Wilkins's Magna Graecia ( 1807 ), and Vitruvius ( 1812 ), Peter Nicholson's Principles of Architecture ( 1795 – 98 ), and Architectural Dictionary ( 1819 ), George Crabb's Technological Dictionary ( 1823 ), and the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana.
Cross-framed drawing-room chairs are illustrated in Thomas Sheraton's last production, The Cabinet-Maker, Upholsterer and General Artist's Encyclopaedia ( 1806 ), and in Thomas Hope's Household Furniture ( 1807 ).

1807 and which
It was invented by Robert Stevenson, for use by an 82-ton converted fishing boat, Pharos, which was used as a lightvessel between 1807 and 1810 near to Bell Rock whilst the lighthouse was being constructed.
In March 1807, Britain, which largely controlled the Atlantic, declared the trans-atlantic slave trade illegal, as did the United States.
Republican James Sullivan won the governor's seat from Strong in 1807, but his successor was unable to hold the seat in the 1809 election, which went to Federalist Christopher Gore.
The disaster at Jena in 1806, in which Napoleon completely crushed the Prussian army, drove him to Königsberg for a time, but he returned to Berlin in 1807 and continued his literary activity.
A major concern of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit ( 1807 ) and of the philosophy of Spirit that he lays out in his Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences ( 1817 – 1830 ) is the interrelation between individual humans, which he conceives in terms of " mutual recognition.
France was also required to pay an indemnity ; the indemnity figure was calculated, on the basis of population, as the precise equivalent of the indemnity which Napoleon I imposed on Prussia in 1807.
* Louis Agassiz ( 1807 – 1873 ), the author of a glacial theory which disputed the notion of a steady-cooling Earth.
In 1807, William Wordsworth finished his sonnet on the theme of a modernity deadened to Nature, which opens " The world is too much with us ", with a sense of nostalgia for the lost richness of a world numinous with deities:
The Slave Trade Act was passed by the British Parliament on March 25, 1807, making the slave trade illegal throughout the British Empire, Wilberforce also campaigned for abolition of slavery in the British Empire, which he lived to see in the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
After the fall of the Duchy of Warsaw, which existed as a Napoleonic client state between 1807 and 1815, the Sejm of Congress Poland was established in the ' Kongresówka ', or Congress Poland of Russia ; it was composed of the king ( Russian emperor ), the upper house ( Senate ), and the lower house ( Chamber of Envoys ).
In 1807 congress passed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, which Jefferson signed into law and which went into effect January 1, 1808.
A political cartoon showing merchants dodging the " Ograbme ", which is ' Embargo ' spelled backwards, 1807.
Jefferson encouraged passage of the Embargo Act in 1807 to maintain American neutrality in the Napoleonic Wars, which was in accordance with France's Continental System against Britain.
In 1816 Thomsen at age 27 was appointed to succeed the retiring Rasmus Nyerup as Secretary of the Kongelige Commission for Oldsagers Opbevarung (" Royal Commission for the Preservation of Antiquities "), which had been founded in 1807.
This authority was implicitly delegated to the individual states, all of which denied the right to women ( with the exception of New Jersey, which initially carried women's suffrage but revoked it in 1807 ).
A new and stronger attack in 1807 aimed to Montevideo first, which was occupied by a 10, 000-strong British force.
Britain enacted the Slave Trade Act 1807, which barred the trade of slaves in Great Britain ( though slavery was still legal ).
The Principality takes its name from the Liechtenstein family, rather than vice-versa, and the family in turn takes its name from Castle Liechtenstein in Lower Austria, which it owned from at least 1140 until the 13th century and from 1807 onwards.
In 1806 – 1807, while at Auteuil, he first appeared before the public as a poet, with two pieces, one entitled Urania, in the classical style, of which he became later the most conspicuous adversary, the other an elegy in blank verse, on the death of Count Carlo Imbonati, from whom, through his mother, he inherited considerable property, including the villa of Brusuglio, thenceforward his principal residence.
For a short time it became the capital of a self-governing federation of the Heptanesos (" Seven Islands "), under Ottoman suzerainty ; in 1807 after the Treaty of Tilsit its faction-ridden government was again replaced by a French administration under governor François-Xavier Donzelot, and in 1809 it was besieged in vain by a British fleet, which had taken all the other Ionian islands.
The open space for the park was formed by the accidental explosion of a ship loaded with gunpowder in 1807, which destroyed hundreds of houses, including that of the Elsevier family of printers.
Prussia lost the territory following Napoleon Bonaparte's victory in the War of the Fourth Coalition as the resultant 1807 Treaties of Tilsit awarded the area to the Russian Empire which then organized the region into the Belostok Oblast, with the city as the regional center.

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