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The North African state of Tripoli declares war on the United States in an attempt to compel the young nation to pay tribute to Arab pirates who have been raiding American ships along the Barbary Coast. The Americans refuse and respond by building a navy.
Paul I is assassinated; he is replaced as Russian tsar by his son, Alexander I.
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