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Abraham-Louis Breguet

Abraham-Louis Breguet
Napoleon Ier

History of Watchmaking

Abraham-Louis Breguet was granted a patent for the tourbillon, an ingenious device to eliminate errors of rate due to a watch's vertical position and the effects of gravitation.

World history

Toussaint Louverture took control of Santo Domingo and proclaimed the slaves' freedom.
Assassination of Paul I of Russia.
1803. Almost the whole of India was now under British rule and administered by the East India Company.
1804. Napoleon I was crowned Emperor of the French.