[caption id=“attachment_1285” align=“alignleft” width=“359”]Credits to Drdpw - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0[/caption] The French occupy Utrecht, Netherlands (Jan 16), and later enter Amsterdam (Jan 20), the metric system is adopted in France (Apr 7), the Kingdom of Hawaii is founded (May 1), a large slave rebellion occurs in Curacao, suppressed the following month (Aug 17), the Alliance of St Petersburg is formed between Britain, Russia and Austria against France (Sep 28), the United States and Spain sign the Treaty of Madrid, establishing the boundaries between Spanish colonies and the U. Continue reading

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