It became a secundogeniture of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, who were deposed for the Bourbon-Parma in 1801, themselves deposed in December 1807 when Tuscany was annexed by France.

The islands were not officially named until Captain Charles J. Johnston of the Royal Naval ship sighted them on December 14, 1807.

Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz ( May 28, 1807 – December 14, 1873 ) was a Swiss paleontologist, glaciologist, geologist and a prominent innovator in the study of the Earth's natural history.

* December 1 – William L. Dayton – United States Minister to France ( b. 1807 )

* December 21 – Jean-François Houbigant, French perfumer ( d. 1807 )

* December 26 – Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer ( d. 1807 )

They were then re-taken in December 1807, but were restored again by the Treaty of Paris of 1815.

At times during the Napoleonic Wars, the islands were occupied by the British ; first from March 1801 to March 27, 1802, and then again from December 1807 to November 20, 1815, when they were returned to Denmark.

In 1807 Portugal refused Napoleon Bonaparte's demand to accede to the Continental System of embargo against the United Kingdom ; a French invasion under General Junot followed, and Lisbon was captured on 8 December 1807.

The embargo lasted from December 1807 to March 1809.

Unlike the Spanish colonies, the Brazilian independence came as a indirect consequence of the Napolionioc Invasions to Portugal-French invasion under General Junot led to the capture of Lisbon on 8 December 1807.

Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh, Secretary of State for War and the Colonies wrote back to Bligh, his instructions being received on 31 December 1807.

In June 1807, a convict had stowed away and escaped Sydney on one of Macarthur's vessels, and in December 1807, when that vessel returned to Sydney, the bond held to ensure compliance by shipping was deemed to be forfeited.

Bligh had the Judge-Advocate, Richard Atkins, issue an order for John Macarthur to appear on the matter of the bond on the 15th of December 1807.

The Embargo Act was signed into law on December 22, 1807.

Accordingly, in December 1807, Jefferson recommended to Congress an embargo which would prohibit all American ships from departing for a foreign port.

Passed on December 22, 1807, the Act:

The bill was drafted at the request of President Thomas Jefferson and subsequently passed by the Tenth U. S. Congress, on December 22, 1807, during Session 1 ; Chapter 5.

The Embargo, which lasted from December 1807 to March 1809 effectively throttled American overseas trade.

The County was created on December 10, 1807 by an act of the Georgia General Assembly.

Coronation of Napoleon I on Sunday 2 December 1804, at Notre Dame, in a The Coronation of Napoleon | 1807 painting by Jacques-Louis David

Prince Eugène was adopted by Napoleon on 12 January 1806 ; while excluded from the French empire's succession, he was given presumptive rights for him and his descendants in the male line to the throne of Italy in the absence of a second son of Napoleon on 16 February 1806, and hence on 20 December 1807 given the title of Prince de Venise (' Prince of Venice '), which had been instituted by article 9 of the decree of 30 March 1806 ( when the former Austrian province of Venice was united to Bonaparte's kingdom of Italy ) for the Heir Presumptive to Napoleon in Italy.

From 1800 to 1814, the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins ( born July 31, 1800 ), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and ( Mangle ) Minthorne Tompkins ( December 26, 1807 – June 5, 1881 ), who was the Free Soil Party candidate for Governor of New York in 1852.

Vice Admiral William Bligh, FRS, RN ( 9 September 1754 – 7 December 1817 ) was an officer of the British Royal Navy and a colonial administrator.

On 23 December, the King lead a thanksgiving procession and ceremony in St Paul's Cathedral in London at which Duncan carried De Winter's flag from Vrijheid and Onslow carried Reijntjes ' flag from Jupiter, followed by Fairfax, Essington, Mitchell, Bligh, Walker, Trollope, Drury, O ' Bryen, Gregory and Hotham as well as numerous seamen from the fleet.

Premier Anna Bligh announced on 12 December 2011 that the department will be dismantled.

Ernest A. Gross leaned back in his chair and told Peter Marshall how Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold had, on December 4, 1957, called him in as a private lawyer to review Bang-Jensen's conduct `` relating to his association with the Special Committee on the problem of Hungary ''.

Now, everyone knows -- or knew in the week of December 10 -- that something had gone shockingly wrong with American foreign policy.

In December I wrote her with authority that we would meet on the steps of the Hotel Astor, a rendezvous spot that I had learned was the most sophisticated.

Starting in great force late in December, from a line stretching from East Prussia to Budapest, the Red armies had swept two hundred miles across Poland to the Oder, thirty miles from Berlin, and the Upper Danube region was being rapidly overrun, while the Western Allies had not yet occupied all of the left bank of the Rhine.

By December, 1958, when ' Abdallah Ibrahim became President of the Council, elections had even greater importance.

She was the John Harvey, one of those Atlantic sea-horses that had sailed to Bari to bring beans, bombs, and bullets to the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force, to Field Marshal Montgomery's Eighth Army then racing up the calf of the boot of Italy in that early December of 1943.

This damage had been done in the battle of Vientiane, fought less than three months earlier when four successive governments had ruled here in three days ( December 9-11, 1960 ).

His Amnesty Proclamation of December 8, 1863, offered pardons to those who had not held a Confederate civil office, had not mistreated Union prisoners, and would sign an oath of allegiance.

While working on a second book, Alcott and Peabody had a falling out and Conversations with Children on the Gospels was prepared with help from Peabody's sister Sophia, published at the end of December 1836.

Henry, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, then took command of the troops of the league, and after Albert had been placed under the imperial ban in December 1553 he was defeated by Duke Henry, and compelled to flee to France.

Alexander had married Princess Margaret of England, a daughter of King Henry III of England and Eleanor of Provence, on 26 December 1251.

Alfonso had two sons by Elena Armanda Nicolasa Sanz y Martínez de Arizala ( Castellón de la Plana, 15 December 1849 – Paris, 24 December 1898 ):

At the Mongol camp near Kars Andrew had met a certain David, who in December 1248 appeared at the court of King Louis IX of France in Cyprus.

The Daily Telegraph and the Morning Post on 21 December 1943 wrote that he had been saved by penicillin.

On December 3, 2007 the Diamondbacks traded Carlos Quentin, who had failed to perform to expectation, to the Chicago White Sox for first base prospect Chris Carter.

On December 9, 2008, Atari announced that it had acquired Cryptic Studios, an MMORPG developer.

The opera had its premiere in Leipzig in March 1930 and played in Berlin in December of the following year.

As of December 2006, the Recorded A Cappella Review Board ( RARB ) had reviewed over 660 a cappella albums since 1994, and its popular discussion forum had over 900 users and 19, 000 articles.

By December 1790 Phillip was ready to return to England, but the colony had largely been forgotten in London and no instructions reached him, so he carried on.

He married firstly at the Dolmabahçe Palace in Constantinople in 1856 to Georgian HH Dürrünev Kadın Efendi ( Batumi, 15 March 1835 – Constantinople, Üsküdar, Çamlıca Palace, 3 December 1892 ), and had three children.