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EVENTS

David Thompson travels to Mandan villages and charts headwaters of Mississippi River

Napoleon invades Egypt . Horatio Nelson and British Navy defeat French at Battle Of The Nile .

A new Fur Trading company is formed to compete with the North West Company . Confusingly called the New North West Company, it is nicknamed the XY Company from the way it differentiates its bales from those of its competitor.

Indian chiefs, in Canada, claim from Vermont an equivalent of the greater part of Addison, Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties. They get their expenses to and fro.

BIRTHS

April 20 - Sir William Edmond Logan , geologist, first director of Geological Survey Of Canada

DEATHS