Salomon Mayer Rothschild marries Caroline Stern.
	The Bank of France is built this year and Napoleon decides France must break free of the debt and he therefore never trusts this bank. He states, "The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no motherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain."

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President Thomas Jefferson strikes a deal with Napoleon in France - $3,000,000 of gold in exchange for a huge chunk of territory west of the Mississippi River (the Louisiana purchase). Napoleon uses this money to put together an army he will then use to set off across Europe to conquer everything in his path. The Bank of England quickly rises to oppose Napoleon and finances every nation in his path, as usual profiteering from war. Prussia, Austria, and then finally Russia all build up an incredible debt in a futile attempt to stop Napoleon.

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In December Pope Pius VII witnesses Napoleon crown himself Emperor.

General Jean-Jacques Dessalines declares Haiti’s independence and becomes emperor after crushing the French army sent by Napoleon to re-enslave it following the world’s first successful slave revolt.

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Joseph Smith, Jr. is born on December 23 to occultist parents Joseph and Lucy Smith. Joseph Smith, Jr. will later become a 33° Freemason, a practitioner of black magic and sorcery before eventually creating the Mormon church.

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Fearful that the Haitian revolution might inspire enslaved Africans in other parts of the world to rebel, US Congress bans trade with Haiti joining French and Spanish boycotts. These embargos cripple Haiti’s economy, which has already been weakened by 12 years of civil war. The embargo will be renewed in 1807 and 1809 and is accompanied by a threat of re-colonization and re-enslavement if Haiti fails to compensate France for losses incurred when French plantation owners lost access to Haiti’s slave labor.

Napoleon states it is his, "object to remove the house of Hess-Cassel from rulership and to strike it out of the list of powers."

When hearing this, Prince William IX of Hesse-Hanau flees from Germany to Denmark and entrusts his fortune (valued at $3,000,000 at that time) to Mayer Amschel Rothschild for safekeeping.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild marries Hannah Barent Cohen, daughter of a wealthy London merchant.

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Nathan Rothschild, head of the English branch of the family in London, personally takes charge of a plan to smuggle a much needed shipment of gold through France to Spain to finance an attack by the Duke Of Wellington on Napoleon.

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Napoleon takes control over all of the Vatican states.

Nathan Mayer Rothschild's first son, Lionel Nathan de Rothschild, is born.

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