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1803

• Robert Fulton develops the first working steamboat
• The Louisiana Purchase is transacted between representatives of the U.S. and France
• The Second Anglo-Maratha War is waged in India
• Orestes Brownson is born (September 16)
• The final terms of the Louisiana Purchase are signed (December 20)
• Ralph Waldo Emerson is born (May 25)