...the Swedish army surrenders at Rügen, completing…

Russian encroachments from the north lead the Tokugawa shogunate to extend direct rule to Hokkaidō, ...

...Sakhalin and ...

...the Kuriles in 1807, but the policy of exclusion continues.

David Thompson crosses the Canadian Rockies in 1807 by way of the Howse Pass to the source of the Columbia.

Lieutenant Thomas Laycock carries dispatches on horseback from Launceston to ...

...Hobart Town overland in January 1807, taking eight days to traverse the island, and he becomes the first person to make that journey through the interior.

His southward journey follows a more westerly route, and he finds the mountainous terrain hard going; however, his return journey ran through the flatter midlands, and the modern main Midland Highway still follows a similar route to this first Hobart-to-Launceston ride.

A British naval fleet sails to Constantinople (Istanbul) in 1807 and orders the Porte to evict the French ambassador and make peace with Russia, but the sultan refuses.

Constantinople's citizens rally and fire a thousand guns at the fleet, which withdraws with severe damages.

Russian warships defeat the Turks in June 1807 at the Battle of Lemnos.

A British campaign (1806–1807) to conquer the strategically important Rio de la Plata region in South America has met with failure.

Godoy had meanwhile withdrawn from the Continental System that Napoleon had devised to combat Britain, only to join it again in 1807, after Napoleon defeats the Prussians.

Napoleon, however, has lost his faith in Godoy and King Charles; there is also growing support in Spain for the king's son, Ferdinand, who opposes the widely despised Godoy.

Ferdinand, however, favors an alliance with Britain, and Napoleon has always doubted the trustworthiness of any Bourbon royalty.

The Carbonari (“charcoal burners”) a secret society of liberal patriots bound together by rituals derived (possibly) from Freemasonry, dedicate themselves to the overthrow in Italy of the Bonapartist rulers.