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Inspired by ArKhan's 50 years, Scifiguy's 20th Century and New Freedoms 21st Century TL's 19th Century is a colaborative TL starting on January 1st 1800 and ending on January 1st 1900. Good luck :).
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January 1, 1800: While lying in bed with Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson makes a promise to support any new legislative effort to end slavery within the United States.

January 2, 1800: A group of free blacks from Philadelphia present a petition to Congress calling for an end to slavery, the slave trade and the Fugitive Slave Act of 1793. While initially ignored by Congress they soon find an unlikely ally in Thomas Jefferson.

February 11, 1800: Frances "Fanny" Nisbet, wife of Horatio Nelson dies of the fever.

May 5 1800: Great Britain passes the Act of Union, joining Great Britain and Ireland into the United Kingdom to take affect 1 January 1801. The act is signed by King George III in August.

June 14 1800: Decisive Austrian victory against French troops at the battle of Marengo.

June 22, 1800: Napoleon Bonaparte develops an infection after being wounded at Marengo.

June 31, 1800: Napoleon Bonaparte dies of the infected wound.

September 12, 1800: In the face of the recent French defeat, Prussia begins to make preparations for renewed war with France in the fear of being overtaken militarily and politically by Austria.

September 15, 1800: Alexander Hamilton dies of a mysterious heart attack.

September 15th, 1800: In an effort to break the British dominance on the seas, the French begin to concentrate their Naval strength at the Western French coasts, making use of the fact that the weather forced most British Blockade Squadrons to disperse.

September 18 1800: Prussia Declares War on France, effectively joining the Second Coalition. The Prussian Army immediately begins marching south to confront the French army in Bavaria and to assist their new Austrian and Bavarian Allies.

September 23-25th 1800: With the weather cleared, the British Channel fleet under Admiral Cornwallis proceeds to engage the French Fleet of Cherbourg in an attempt to cement Britain’s Control over the channel. The first engagement on the 23rd ends in a draw. However, the second engagement on the 25th proves more decisive, with the bulk of the French fleet being either destroyed or captured.

November 11 1800: The Massive joint Austro-Bavarian-Prussian army confronts the French army under General Jean Victor Marie Moreau at Hochstadt in Bavaria. Despite the brilliance of General Moreau, the demoralized French forces suffer a crushing defeat at the hands of the Austro-Bavarian-Prussian army.

December 10 1800: In the aftermath of the untimely death of Napoleon and the recent spate of French defeats, Spain secretly agrees to transfer the vast Louisiana Territory to British Control once the hostilities on the continent end.

December 15, 1800: Storms whip across western France and the Low Countries, leaving a deep layer of hard packed snow. The Pan Germanic Alliance demobilizes to wait for better weather. But for the rest of the month, it just gets worse.

The french army also demobilizes, having run out of supplies. The harsh conditions, plus the end of the initial euphoric response to Napoleon's charisma and leadership, create something of a national state of depression.

January 1st 1801: In accordance with the Act of Union, the United kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland comes into being.

January 10th 1801: An exiled noble cleric (someone will have to supply a suitible candidate) returns from Rome to proclaim the Wrath of God against a regecidal and blasphemous nation.

January 21st 1801: George III receives a summons as Elector of Hanover, to a conference of the Pan Germanic Alliance. A less flowery note is delivered to the Lord Chancellor, suggesting that the king's son be sent in his place.

February (?), 1801: John Adams is inaugurated to his second term as President. Without Hamilton's efforts to split the Federalist Party, they held strong and barely won the election.

March 28, 1801: One of VP Pickney's three daughters is found murdered in New York. He is devastated.

April 1-4th1801: A Joint Prussian-Hanoverian and Orangeist force led by William V of Orange (who has taken his army to Germany following the recent successes against the French), invades the Batavian Republic from Hanover with the goal of returning William V to the Standholdership.

They first clash with French – Batavian Loyalist forces at Arnhem, where after a short but brutal siege, the Bridge across the Rhine is captured, allowing the Prussian-Hanoverian-Orangeist army to pour into the Low Countries.

April 20th 1801: The joint Prussian-Hanoverian-Orangeist army, after a short but bloody campaign throughout the Low Countries, lay siege to the last French – Batavian loyalist stronghold at The Hague.

May 6th-8th, 1801: A Combined Austro-Prussian Army engages a French Army near Straßbourg. After almost three days of Battle the fighting ends in a draw.

May 18th, 1801: The Hague surrenders to the Allied Forces.

May 20 1801: William V is restored to the throne and the Dutch Republic is re-established. On this day, the Allied powers also sign the Treaty of Amsterdam, which states that:

* All Dutch Colonies captured during the last 10 years including Cape Colony, Ceylon, and the Dutch Caribbean Holdings will be returned to the Dutch republic.

* Due to the vast amount of reforms made during the Batavian era and popular resentment to the restoration of the standholdership, provisions will be made for a Constitutional Monarchy to be implemented, although still under the House of Orange. The various small enclaves within the borders of the republic will be annexed by the Netherlands.

* Once the last French forces have been pushed out of the Southern Netherlands, the parts of the Netherlands that were annexed to France, including Maastricht and Zeeuws Flanders, would be restored to the republic including some lands conecting them to the rest of the Netherlands. A buffer state within the borders of the Austrian Netherlands will be created and the crown given to a Hapsburg Prince from Austria.

May 21st 1801: The Austro – Prussian Forces beast the French Forces outside of Strasbourg with a crushing defeat that leaves the French army in tatters. Members of the French Government begin to make arrangements for a peace.

June 3rd, 1801: The Dutch Republic signs treaties with Prussia and Hannover, thereby by extension with the British.

1802: The Democratic-Republicans win both houses in Congress.

June 18, 1803: Kamehameha I and many of his troops die from an unknown disease, possible chlorea or Typhoid fever. The Invasion of Kauai is postponed untill a successor can be chosen.

June 21, 1803: Despite his age, Keʻeaumoku Pāpaʻiahiahi, the Father in law of the late Kamehameha, is selected to lead the Forces against Kauai.

Febuary 20th 1806: Due to an overspill of convicts following the end of the Wars in Europe, The Governer of New South Wales John King orders that provisions for a free colony (No Convicts) to be founded at the locality known as Moreton Bay (OTL Brisbane), this in time would become on eof the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire.

October 3rd, 1806: The Prussian King Frederick William III dies, and immediately foul play is suspected, since the King apparently died from eating a bad dish of Crabs.
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