1803 - 1816 (12 years)
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| 1 | 1803 | - 1803: Beginning of the Napoleonic Wars. Britain declares war on France. Parliament passes the General Enclosure Act, simplifying the process of enclosing common land
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| 2 | 1805 | - 1805: Ludolf Christian Treviranus said that spermatozoa were analogous to pollen
- 1805: Nelson destroys the French and Spanish fleets at the Battle of Trafalgar, but is killed in the process
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| 3 | 1806 | - 1806: Louis Nicolas Vauquelin and Pierre Jean Robiquet isolated the first amino acid, 'asparagine,' from asparagus.
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| 4 | 1807 | - 1807: William Bentinck, Duke of Portland Prime Minister to 1809 (Whig)
- 1807: Robert Fulton ushered in the era of self-propelled ships with his construction of a commercially viable paddle-wheel steamboat
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| 5 | 1808 | - 1808: Peninsular War to drive the French out of Spain (until 1814)
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| 6 | 1809 | - 1809: Two-year commercial boom in Britain
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| 7 | 1810 | - 1810: Final illness of George III begins
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| 8 | 1811 | - 1811: Depression caused by Orders of Council. There are Luddite disturbances in Nottinghamshire and Yorkshire. The King's illness leads to his son, the Prince of Wales, becoming Regent
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| 9 | 1812 | - 1812: Georges Cuvier, in 'Discours sur les r?volutions de la surface du globe', maintained the stratigraphic succession proved that fossils occur in the chronological order of creation: fish, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals.
- 1812: Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated in the House of Commons by a disgruntled bankrupt
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| 10 | 1813 | - 1813: Canned food was invented for the British Navy by Peter Durand. The cans were made of solid iron and usually weighed more than the food inside them
- 1813: Jane Austen's 'Pride and Prejudice' is published. The monopolies of the East India Company are abolished
- 1813: Can opener invented
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| 11 | 1815 | - 1815: The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Peace is established in Europe at the Congress of Vienna. The Corn Laws are passed by Parliament to protect British agriculture from cheap imports
- 1815: Start of two-year commercial boom in Britain
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